The biological family of two boys who authorities say were killed by their adoptive parents have filed a federal lawsuit alleging civil rights violations and wrongful death.
Ryan Dean and Dana Moorer, the boys' biological mother and grandmother, allege that the children were unlawfully taken from their mother and placed in the care of a couple who now face murder charges in their deaths.
Authorities conspired with the adoptive parents "to deny plaintiffs' several requests to reunify their family with Cinsere and Classic Pettus before they were murdered," according to the lawsuit.
