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Josh Powell went to court in Tacoma, Washington on the first day of February 2012. He wore a jacket, a blue shirt and tie, and carried a crumpled brown paper sack from a FedEx office copy center. It contained a typed statement for the court.

This is what Josh wrote. Having demonstrated my fitness as a parent, it is time for my sons to come home.

Josh had lost custody of his sons Charlie and Braden four months earlier,

after police raided the South Hill home he shared with his father.

Detectives were looking for evidence related to the unsolved disappearance of Josh's wife

Susan.

Instead, they had found his father's stash of voyeur videos.

I was living with him at the time,, within the first month I established my own home and I have consistently proven my fitness as a stable and loving parent.

In court, Josh's attorney, Jeff Bassett, told Judge Catherine Nelson his client had done everything

she had asked of him.

He has been nothing if not cooperative to the entire everything that's been asked of him in this case.

Josh had even gone so far as to endure a psychological evaluation.

I have proven myself as a fit and loving father who provides a stable home even in the face of great adversity.

Not so fast.

Assistant Washington Attorney General John Long told the court, police in West Valley City

Utah had just shared concerning new evidence.

Based on some information that's been provided by a criminal investigation, a judge overseeing the criminal investigation, I think it's clear from that court

order that these can be linked to Mr Powell.

No one came right out and said it in open court that day, but the evidence in question was a set of

nearly 400 pornographic images.

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