Lori Vallow maintains innocence in a new statement from her lawyer

Lori Vallow Daybell leaves the courtroom during her hearing on Friday, March 6, 2020, in Rexburg, Idaho. Daybell who is charged with felony child abandonment after her two children went missing nearly six months ago had her bond reduced to $1 million by an Idaho judge on Friday. (John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register via AP, Pool) | AP

The mother of two missing Idaho children is maintaining her innocence

Lori Vallow Daybell — the mother of two missing Idaho children — maintained her innocence in a new statement to ABC News.

What’s happening:

• Lori Vallow Daybell’s attorney, Mark Means, sent ABC News a statement that said Vallow Daybell maintains her innocence in the ongoing case, which has drawn national headlines.
• The statement read: “As with any citizen of our country, Mrs. Daybell is entitled to all the privileges and rights that accompany our cornerstone belief of innocents, until proven beyond a reasonable doubt otherwise. It is this innocence that Mrs. Daybell assertively maintains regarding all charges.”
• Means is Daybell’s only attorney now. Edwina Elcox and Brian Webb left the legal team last Friday, according to ABC News.

The most recent update

• Last Friday, a judge agreed to recuse himself from the criminal case with Lori Vallow Daybell, as reported by the Deseret News.
• Judge Faren Eddins said Friday he would agree with the defendants, who has the right “disqualify a judge, without reason, without cause, just because.”

The case:

• Daybell’s children — Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 17 — have been missing since September 2019.
• Daybell remains in jail in Madison County, Idaho. She sits on a $1 million bond. She was arrested in Hawaii last month after she and her husband, Chad Daybell, traveled there after police questioned Lori Vallow Daybell about her children, according to the Deseret News.

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