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By Tom Sofield | LevittownNow
A judge ruled last week that a civil lawsuit against the parents of killer Cosmo DiNardo can continue.
Philadelphia Judge Shelly Robins-New issued a one-page order last week that one of the civil lawsuits against DiNardo’s parents can move forward after Antonio and Sandra DiNardo’s attorney filed a motion to dismiss a parental-liability claim that alleges they bear some fault for the 2017 killing spree engineered by their son at the family farm in Solebury Township.
DiNardo was sentenced to four life terms in prison for the July 2017 murders of Dean Finocchiaro, 19, of Middletown, Thomas Meo, 21, of Plumstead Township, and Mark Sturgis, 22, of Pennsburg, Montgomery County. The three men’s bodies were later burned and buried in a 14-foot-deep pit next to a cornfield on the farm. DiNardo’s cousin, Sean Kratz, was sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in the three men’s deaths.
Attorney Carin A. O’Donnell, who represents Patrick’s grandparents, holds the position that the DiNardos, of Bensalem, should face claims that they “failed in their lawful duty to protect others from possible harm at the hands of their violent, mentally ill son.”
Civil lawsuits against the DiNardos by the victims’ families were filed in 2018.
In the DiNardo article, who pray tell is Patrick? I’m fully aware that I’m coming late to this very tragic saga, but when I reached the sentence that stated “Atty C. A. McDonnell who represents Patrick’s, grandparents”, my eyes glazed over, since no one named Patrick had been introduced in previous paragraphs.
So intellectual curiosity inquires, who pray tell is Patrick?
Thank you.
Will