Poor Jayce Osteen. His young life just keeps getting more complicated… As we previously reported, two sheriff’s deputies in Florida, Clayton Osteen and Victoria Pacheco, left behind their infant son when they both died by suicide within days of each other earlier this month.
There was a glimmer of hope when we learned a family member had taken in the baby, who had suddenly become an orphan at less than two months old.
Family friend Kelly Ridle, who set up the GoFundMe for the little guy, provided an update before eventually ending the fundraiser, revealing: That family member, we now know, was Clayton’s older brother, Zack Osteen.
The 31-year-old, also a sheriff’s deputy, was granted an emergency court order for immediate guardianship and plans to formally adopt his nephew.
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