# Fatal Custody: How family courts missed domestic violence warning signs

https://mins.news/en/video/111333

- Al Jazeera English, 2026-10-22 15:00 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAMCOZT9_K0

> Hope Hooton and Kellie Elliott feared their children were unsafe with their fathers. Hope sought protection after her husband threatened suicide and later suffered a psychiatric crisis; Kellie documented years of domestic abuse. Both fathers nevertheless had unsupervised access to their children and later killed them. Fault Lines examines how evidence of danger may be overlooked, dismissed or never reach family courts.

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