Ruggles v. Riggs

MOORE, Justice:

This appeal by Mona K. Ruggles challenges a decision of the Superior Court, which affirmed an order of the Family Court requiring her two young sons to visit their putative father, George Riggs, a convicted rapist, in prison. 1 It is an issue of first impression in this Court.

The mother contends that: the record does not support the Family Court order, the trial judge comingled the record of another matter with this one, and, except for reliance on a brief ex parte conversation with a psychiatrist, the trial court wholly ignored questions relating to the children’s physical…