The Sharp Family Singers are back in the news!

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... Raymond Schwab ... whose children have been under the supervision of the Kansas Department for Children and Families for almost a year, began a hunger strike Monday ... The couple spent Monday at the Kansas Capitol trying to reach the governor and other legislators about their case. They were joined by Odalis Sharp, of Auburn, and seven of her children. The “Sharp Family Singers” ... broke into song several times Monday at the Capitol ... “Our family is here to stand by (the Schwabs),” Sharp said. Sharp herself has had two cases with the Department for Children and Families ...
Father begins hunger strike in response to alleged harm of children under DCF care
Posted: March 14, 2016 - 8:45pm
By Katie Moore

The Bundy-led occupation of an Oregon Wildlife refuge keeps getting curiouser and curiouser ... Today, the entertainment included a family band, The Sharp Family Singers! Said band consists of the children of Odalis Sharp, ages 7-20. Odalis Sharp, by the way, had one of her children taken away from her and placed into the foster system, on charges of neglect after he ran away. The single mother of 10 claimed that this was because he didn’t like “the right, wholesome and pure path in which I was leading him — in which God was leading us” ... The family previously performed at the Bundy Ranch standoff ...
Dysfunctional Family Band Plays For Oregon Militants, Because That’s A Good Place For Kids
January 26, 2016 - 6:30 pm
Robyn Pennacchia

... Afterward, Ms. Sharp explained that she was facing an eviction ... Their presence highlighted the occupation’s willingness to allow children to join the movement ... But even Mr. Knodell, the bodyguard, thought they shouldn’t be there. “You’re in an armed camp — it’s just not appropriate for children,” he said ...
Family Gospel Band Provided Soundtrack for Oregon Refuge Standoff
By JULIE TURKEWITZ
JAN. 28, 2016

Here is the October 2015 Kansas Court of Appeals regarding cistody of Odalis's son: ... On April 9, 2011, C.V. ran away from his family home ... On April 11, Timothy Sharp, C.V.'s stepfather, reported to law enforcement officers
that C.V. was a juvenile runaway ... Odalis maintained that she last saw C.V. on the evening of April 8 at approximately 10 p.m. when he came into her room and stated, "'Goodnight. I love you. You're the best.'" She believed C.V. left the property sometime between 5:50 and 6:45 a.m. the following day ... Deputy Cochran filled out a missing person form and a request for assistance and authorization of medical treatment form. As he was doing so, Odalis indicated that she
was "very hesitant to sign" the form ... and she stated "several times she did not believe her son was missing and the
'good Lord knows where he's at and he's fine.'" When Deputy Cochran explained that the form merely allowed law enforcement officers to search for her son who had been missing for 2 days, Odalis finally agreed to sign it. Officers found C.V. at the Topeka Public Library shortly thereafter ... C.V. told Deputy Johnston that he would run away again if was returned home and "if he was forced to stay home, he would kill himself by cutting his wrists" ...