{"id":810091,"date":"2026-07-19T11:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810091\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T11:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:40:20","slug":"meaghan-bowler-usa-fight-to-bring-kids-to-australia-after-mum-allegedly-murdered-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810091\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaghan Bowler USA: Fight to bring kids to Australia after mum allegedly murdered in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A heartbroken NSW family is facing a massive international legal fight\u00a0 to bring the young sons of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/homicide-26l6\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">murder <\/a>victim here from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/world-news\/usa\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Madisson Bowler is trying to adopt her nephews after her sister Meaghan was allegedly killed by her American husband.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bowler is trying to adopt her nephews after her sister Meaghan was allegedly killed by her American husband.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8492491a88656345d78d73cdfb7e871100aa649a5313569f9a7099fe1836211a.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Bowler is trying to adopt her nephews after her sister Meaghan was allegedly killed by her American husband.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019d walk into a room and everyone looks at her straight away, her energy, her kindness,\u201d Madisson said, of her sister.<\/p>\n<p>Meaghan\u2019s husband, Jesse Jones, allegedly told a 911 operator he had stabbed his wife several times in their Florida home in April.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Madisson Bowler is trying to adopt her nephews after her sister Meaghan was allegedly killed by her American husband. Jesse Jones,\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d4caf7ba02f3d9bf1e993e13ade0a93a8240435e7d2cd97ba11bb9ba7ce6e46b.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Madisson\u2019 sister Meaghan was allegedly killed by her American husband. Jesse Jones,\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n<p>The Bowler family is fighting to bring two-year-old Jesse and nine-month-old Elijah to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like a melting pot of emotions at the moment,\u201d Maddison said.<\/p>\n<p>With Jones now in custody, the boys are living with his mother.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bowler is trying to adopt her nephews after her sister Meaghan was allegedly killed by her American husband.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0f1b23207c9429859194a041e6957d35e71d29d916b8b949c5d7fc036465064c.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Madisson Bowler faces a long fight to adopt her nephews after her sister Meaghan was allegedly murdered.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n<p>But Madisson and her father are putting their lives here on hold to go to Florida and get them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt could be anywhere from 6 to 12 months that the process could take,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t turn my back on the lives of those two boys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bowler family is facing steep legal hurdles<\/p>\n<p>The children don\u2019t have birth certificates or social security numbers in the US, something they\u2019ll need before the custody battle can begin.<\/p>\n<p>The family has launched a fundraiser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heartbroken NSW family is facing a massive international legal fight\u00a0 to bring the young sons of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-810091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}