{"id":65327,"date":"2025-12-09T06:45:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/65327\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T06:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:45:18","slug":"attorneys-call-for-mother-of-missing-brownsville-boy-to-be-released-from-rikers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/65327\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorneys call for mother of missing Brownsville boy to be released from Rikers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys for the mother of a missing Brownsville boy with autism asked a criminal court judge Monday to release her from Rikers Island.<\/p>\n<p>The defense team argued that Jacqueline Pritchett&#8217;s detention is a violation of the Fifth Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>During previous family court hearings, lawyers say Pritchett &#8220;pleaded the fifth&#8221; when she was asked questions about the whereabouts of her son, Jacob Pritchett, and what happened to him.<\/p>\n<p>Her defense team argued that she was incarcerated for her refusal to answer potentially self-incriminating questions, which they argued is unconditional.<\/p>\n<p>The judge is expected to decide on whether to release Pritchett on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attorneys for the mother of a missing Brownsville boy with autism asked a criminal court judge Monday to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[6616,3183,34076,3129,4748,34075,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-65327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-brownsville","tag-missing-child","tag-missing-kids","tag-missing-person","tag-missing-teen","tag-missing-teen-found","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}