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Reports: Woman In Clinton Lake Drownings Denied Children Again

 A judge has ruled three Illinois children placed in state custody in 2014 after a doctor pointed out their mother was a parent of three other children who drowned in Clinton Lake more than a decade earlier will remain in foster care.
 
According to reports, Department of Children and Family Services spokeswoman Veronica Resa said Friday that Amanda and Leo Ware were found by Cook County Circuit Judge Demetrios Kottaras to be unable to care for the children.
 
Amanda Ware, then known as Amanda Hamm, was convicted of child endangerment and served five years in prison for watching then-boyfriend Maurice LaGrone Jr. drown her three children from previous relationships in 2003 in Clinton Lake, south of Bloomington.
 
Prosecutors said LaGrone, who is serving a life sentence, wanted to kill the children because they interfered with the couple's relationship.

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