Sports
Woodworth finally feels wanted, by his foster family and a number of college football coaches.
Jan. 20, 1996
California
Betty Lou Batey, the Pentecostalist who disappeared with her son for 19 months rather than let him live with his homosexual father, left court a free woman Monday, cleared by a judge of charges of felony child-stealing.
May 19, 1987
Betty Lou Batey, the Pentecostalist who disappeared with her son for 19 months rather than allow him to live with his homosexual father, left court a free woman Monday, cleared by a judge of charges of felony child stealing.
High School Sports
Quartz Hill 34, Burroughs Ridgecrest 0--Brian Woodworth passed for two touchdowns and ran for another to lead Quartz Hill (8-1, 4-0) at Burroughs.
Nov. 4, 1995
A jury was seated Wednesday to hear the trial of fundamentalist Betty Lou Batey, who is charged with taking her son from her ex-husband, a homosexual, and concealing the boy for 19 months.
May 14, 1987
It will be up to a jury to decide whether a fundamentalist Christian woman’s fears that her young son would be exposed to sex, drugs and violence in the home of his homosexual father justified her defying a court order and spiriting the boy into hiding for 19 months, a San Diego County Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday.
May 13, 1987
Quartz Hill High ran into a Hesperia team that always seemed to be in just the right place Friday night in a 20-6 Hesperia victory at Jay Reed Field.
Sept. 24, 1994
World & Nation
Betty Lou Batey, the fundamentalist Christian accused of taking her son from his homosexual father, testified Thursday that she believed her son would have been exposed to drugs, alcohol and molestation by strangers unless she took him away.
May 15, 1987
A judge today threw out child-stealing charges against a fundamentalist Christian woman, saying he didn’t think she intended to keep her son away from his homosexual father.
May 18, 1987
Lawyers for Betty Lou Batey, the fundamentalist Christian who hid her young son from his homosexual father for 19 months, asked a San Diego County Superior Court judge Monday to let them argue that Batey’s actions were justified to protect the boy from drugs, sex and violence.
May 12, 1987