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Lawyer: In-laws mining for information
April 8, 2008
By JANET LUNDQUIST The Herald News
JOLIET -- Craig Stebic's in-laws are using a petition seeking visitation rights to his children to mine for information about his wife's disappearance, Stebic's lawyer said Monday.
Timothy Daw, an attorney for missing Plainfield mom Lisa Stebic's parents and grandparents, Lawrence and Judith Ruttenberg and Milton and Charlotte Ruttenberg, said the couples just want to see the children and that Stebic has prohibited any contact.
The Ruttenbergs filed a petition in November seeking visitation rights to the Stebic children, ages 11 and 13.
• Judge: Stebic can pick up car
Lisa's family has said her parents have not had a civil conversation with Stebic since 1995. He had forbidden them from talking to Lisa or her children for at least two years, according to Lisa's family.
In October, Lisa's two sisters, who had been visiting the children, reported Craig also had forbidden them from seeing the kids.
Stebic had two lawyers working for him at the Will County courthouse Monday.
While Stebic appeared with attorney George Lenard in a fourth-floor courtroom seeking the return of the car his wife used to drive, Dion Davi was on the third floor arguing his side on the child visitation petition.
Davi said the Ruttenbergs have made requests for information that go "far beyond" visitation, such as questions they want Stebic to answer and documents they want produced relating to Lisa's disappearance.
Sun-Times News Group
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These dingbats, are acting like this is a BAD thing, that they want answers!!
