Days after the shooting, Pozner's brother, Alexis Haller, reached out to his sister from his home in Seattle, offering to set up a trust.
She says what they received months later were dozens of opened letters and gifts that were not in their original condition.
"The fact that correspondence like that went to eyes other than us, as Noah's parents, is unconscionable to me. The fact that someone would open and read those letters, or maybe discard some of them...I'll never know if I got everything back," she said.
Haller, though, says all correspondence were forwarded back to his sister and that she was aware he had opened many cards to check for donations. (a very jewy christmas)
Now, Pozner is fighting to regain control of Noah's trust. She says Haller, an attorney himself, appointed himself trustee when he started it. He has since refused to turn control over to the two people Pozner and her husband want named as trustees.
"We feel there ought to be two trustees. That's how you get that checks and balances. He names himself the only one," said Pozner.
Haller, a litigator in Washington state, monitored the news and felt his stomach drop when reports emerged that an entire classroom of children had been killed. Confirmation of the worst came later that day. His nephew, Noah Pozner, 6, had been shot 11 times at close range.
One month later, Haller found himself in Washington, D.C to announc new gun-control measures.
“It got me thinking,” Haller said, “because in the Vatican cases, I have done extensive work on child abuse statutes and reporting statues in particular.” One of the consequences of child sex abuse fallout in the Catholic Church is that bishops are now expected to report predator priests to authorities — something that Haller said was also on his mind as he thought about gun violence.
When he first took on the Vatican as a client a dozen years ago, he researched sex abuse laws and learned that in the 1960s, as X-rays became more widespread, doctors could see broken bones and realized that parents were beating their children.
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Days after the shooting, Pozner's brother, Alexis Haller, reached out to his sister from his home in Seattle, offering to set up a trust.
She says what they received months later were dozens of opened letters and gifts that were not in their original condition.
"The fact that correspondence like that went to eyes other than us, as Noah's parents, is unconscionable to me. The fact that someone would open and read those letters, or maybe discard some of them...I'll never know if I got everything back," she said.
Haller, though, says all correspondence were forwarded back to his sister and that she was aware he had opened many cards to check for donations. (a very jewy christmas)
Now, Pozner is fighting to regain control of Noah's trust. She says Haller, an attorney himself, appointed himself trustee when he started it. He has since refused to turn control over to the two people Pozner and her husband want named as trustees.
"We feel there ought to be two trustees. That's how you get that checks and balances. He names himself the only one," said Pozner.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2013/01/16/4679b1ce-6030-11e2-b05a-605528f6b712_story.html?utm_term=.28d196b20ad9
Haller, a litigator in Washington state, monitored the news and felt his stomach drop when reports emerged that an entire classroom of children had been killed. Confirmation of the worst came later that day. His nephew, Noah Pozner, 6, had been shot 11 times at close range.
One month later, Haller found himself in Washington, D.C to announc new gun-control measures.
“It got me thinking,” Haller said, “because in the Vatican cases, I have done extensive work on child abuse statutes and reporting statues in particular.” One of the consequences of child sex abuse fallout in the Catholic Church is that bishops are now expected to report predator priests to authorities — something that Haller said was also on his mind as he thought about gun violence.
When he first took on the Vatican as a client a dozen years ago, he researched sex abuse laws and learned that in the 1960s, as X-rays became more widespread, doctors could see broken bones and realized that parents were beating their children.