Two Preschoolers Face Foreclosure As Father Sits In Jail For Allegedly Killing Mother

In Provo, Utah, Deseret News reports:

• A bank and a title company have begun the foreclosure process on the Lehi home of David Ragsdale — where his two young children live with extended family. But the children's legal representative, guardian ad litem William M. Jeffs, is trying to get an extension for loan payments so he can sell the home and give the money to the children, not the bank.

• "(They're) foreclosing against a 4-year-old and a 2-year-old whose mother was killed and father is in jail and all I'm asking for is a little bit of extra time to sell the house," Jeffs said. "I'm willing to make partial payments in the interim. I'm not asking for any concessions on the loan, we'll pay the loan in full. All I'm asking for is a concession on time."

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• Ragsdale can no longer make payments on the home — he's been in the Utah County Jail since Jan. 6, when police say he fatally shot his wife, Kristy, in the parking lot of an LDS meetinghouse in Lehi.

For more, see Attorney fighting foreclosure on Ragsdale home.