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Tue Aug 23, 2016, 05:03 AM Aug 2016

Children who performed at Oregon standoff still in Kansas state custody

Topeka -- The outspoken Kansas-raised teen who was dubbed the “Patriot Princess” after her involvement in an Oregon standoff earlier this year appeared on Monday at the Shawnee County Courthouse.

This court episode, however, involved a battle of a different kind.

Victoria Sharp was there to support her dad in his effort to gain sole custody of seven of his minor children after they lodged allegations of child abuse against their mother in April. At the conclusion of a brief closed-door hearing, the children remained in state custody. But Tim Sharp said he was hopeful that the children would soon be living with him in Colorado.

“I’ve jumped through nearly every hoop that the state has asked me jump through,” he said afterward.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article97272587.html

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