4:12 p.m.
10 On Your Side's Meagan Farley has learned the former foster parents of Aveion Lewis have filed the necessary paperwork to ask a judge to adopt Morgan Lockett's three children.
This will have to worked out in the courts too.
Lockett's attorneys said they'll likely ask a judge to release her on bond before her baby is due on May 26th.
Lockett told the judge she intends to deliver by cesarian section.
In what some legal observers term an unusual move, Roanoke City circuit court judge Clifford Weckstein agreed to appoint Lockett an entire legal firm to represent her, the Roanoke firm of Strickland, Diviney, & Strelka.
Weckstein did not give an explanation as to his decision.
Aveion's step father, Brandon Lockett, was appointed one attorney.
Correy Diviney represented Lockett when a judge at the juvenile-domestic relations level agreed to move Aveion from foster parents back into the Lockett home.
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11:10 a.m.
ROANOKE - Before his death in January, 3-year-old Aveion Lewis had a broken arm, severe burns, and was showing signs of severe starvation, according to new information just released from prosecutors in the case.
Aveion's mother, Morgan Lockett, and step-father, Brandon Lockett, are each charged with second degree murder and two other crimes in relation to the child's death.
The new information came out during Morgan Lockett's bond hearing this morning in Roanoke City circuit court.
Morgan Lockett
Lockett told the judge she was pregnant, with the baby due on May 26th.
The judge denied Lockett's request for bond, primarily because she requested to live with her mother, whom has custody of her three remaining children, ages 4, 2, and the youngest celebrating a first birthday tomorrow.
We'll have much more on this story tonight on WSLS 10 On Your Side at 6 p.m.
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