by Editorial Board of The Washington Post.

A 15 month old was taken off life support after being declared brain-dead. A day earlier, paramedics had found him unresponsive, cold and without a pulse at his father’s home in Manassas, where he had been on his fourth unsupervised visit permitted by Montgomery County Circuit Court amid a bitter custody battle. His mother had fiercely opposed unsupervised visits warning that if something happened to him, he was too young to tell anyone.