Walquiria “Kia” Cassini has not seen her two younger sons in nearly three years, even though prosecutors dropped every criminal charge against her back in October 2025. A Palm Beach County judge is scheduled to hear arguments Thursday at 9 a.m. on whether to dissolve the protective injunction that has kept her from her boys since March 2024, when she was first arrested on child sex abuse allegations that stemmed from a bitter custody dispute.
Cassini, her adult son Matthew Cassini, and her fiancé Ryan Londono were originally accused of sexually abusing Cassini’s two younger sons and live-streaming the abuse for financial gain, according to WPTV. The Boca Raton mother told the station she is fighting to reverse the consequences of a case that fell apart just weeks before it was supposed to go to trial. According to WPTV, defense attorneys have said the allegations arose out of a custody fight that boiled over around Thanksgiving 2023.
A Custody Fight That Spiraled Into Criminal Charges
The dispute traces back to November 26, 2023, when Cassini messaged the boys’ father dozens of times demanding to know where her children were and called the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office non-emergency dispatch line, per WPTV’s reporting. That same day, Marion County deputies responded to the father’s home in Ocala after he reported allegations against Cassini. WPTV reports that deputies from both Marion County and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office actually questioned the allegations against her at the time.
Cassini was arrested in March 2024, and an injunction barring her from contacting her sons followed that same month. During initial court proceedings, defense counsel emphasized that law enforcement had found no physical or digital videos of abuse on the defendants’ confiscated devices, according to Local 10 News. Prosecutors originally sought mandatory life sentences before the case unraveled.
Charges Dropped, But the Boys Remain Isolated
The Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office dropped all charges against Cassini two weeks before the October 2025 trial after determining that new evidence left prosecutors without a good-faith basis to proceed, per WPTV’s reporting. The two younger boys, now 16 and 9, have lived with their father in Ocala since being removed from Cassini’s custody, and WPTV reports they have lived in a senior citizen community since November 2023, home-schooled by their father, who the outlet says has not responded to calls or texts from the station seeking comment. Cassini’s attorneys have described the boys as intentionally isolated from the outside world…