AL LAWRENCE

Mansfield News Journal

A local baby whose father is deployed in the Pacific with the U.S. Navy is still living with her paternal grandmother.  A preliminary hearing took place Thursday to decide temporary custody for the 7-month-old. A full hearing will begin today after Richland County Children Services took up a judge’s challenge to look closer at the custody case.

Custody became a thorny issue shortly after Aug. 28, when Petty Officer Phillip A. Croghan, 28, filed for divorce from the infant’s mother, Porsha Lenee Schaub, 21, of Mansfield. Croghan asked the court to allow his mother, who lives in Akron to take custody of the baby because of his military assignment. Croghan is on a 90-day deployment to Japan, the Philippines and Korea with the USS Denver.

Source: http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/20091009/NEWS01/910090328/1002