Homeschooler’s trial date abandoned

A trial date for a homeschooling mom from Utah who fled the state when a judge threatened to take away custody of her children has been vacated, officials have confirmed.

A lawyer with the Home School Legal Defense Association, which actually became involved in the case after it was well advanced, said that parties in the case against Denise Mafi by stipulation had vacated a trial date scheduled this week, and no new court date has been set.

Mafi had fled her Carbon County, Utah, home after a judge had ordered her to enroll her children with a public school within a day or he would remove them from her custody.

Mafi, who at that time had had counsel from a public defender, abandoned her home, furniture and other possessions to leave Utah and seek refuge in another state, where she is getting her four children involved in another homeschooling program.

Mafi said she and her children had packed up their essentials – clothes and homeschool materials – and spent more than 50 hours on a bus trip to an undisclosed part of the country.

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