Fotis Dulos and Jennifer Farber Dulos.Photo: New Canaan Police Department/AP/Shutterstock; Courtesy Farber Family
The husband of a Connecticut momwho vanished in May spoke out Wednesday for the first time since her disappearance, saying he misses his children.
Fotis Dulos, 51, told reporters outside Stamford Superior Court, “I just want to tell my children that they are constantly on my mind,”theHartford Courantreports.
The children of Fotis and missing mom Jennifer Dulos, 50, are currently staying with their maternal grandmother in New York City.
“I love them and miss them very much,” Fotis said.
On May 24, after dropping off her children at school in the morning,Jennifer vanished. She remains missing.
Subsequently,Fotis, and Michelle Troconis, 44,who was allegedly having an affair with him, were arrested and charged with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and hindering prosecution in connection with the case.
Fotis was in court Wednesday for a hearingabout a confidential psychological evaluation that the couple’s children’s court representative does not want to be made public, NBC Connecticut reports.
“This is a family case,” Reuben Midler, an attorney representing Jennifer said in court, theAdvocatereports. “This is not an opportunity for the defendant to establish a criminal defense, which is I think what is going on.”
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Pattis argued that he is “required to rebut adverse publicity as to Mr. Dulos, and if there is a person in the world about whom there has been adverse publicity, it is he,” theAdvocatereports.
Jennifer, Pattis said, “acted in reliance on that report. She told Mr. Dulos based on that report, ‘You will never see your children, I will see to it.’”
The judge ruled that the report will remain sealed, though lawyers will still be able to review it and discuss it with their clients, theCourantreports.
A close friend of the woman says the lawyer, who admits he never read the manuscript, mischaracterized it and that his claim. She said his claim is “false and irresponsible” and “makes no sense.”
Jennifer moved to New Canaan with her children in 2017 after learning that her husband had allegedly been having an affair with Troconis for more than a year. In her divorce filing, she said she feared for her life, but Fotis has denied the accusations.
Fotis and Troconis were arrested after surveillance camerasallegedly captured footage of a man and woman matching their descriptions dumping garbage bags at 30 different trash bins in Hartford the night Jennifer went missing, court records show.
At least two of the bags allegedly contained clothing and sponges stained with Jennifer’s blood, court records show.
Pattis did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
source: people.com
