MIAMI – The defense team for Kim and Deborah Clenney held a news conference with their clients Wednesday.
The Clenneys, who are the parents of OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney, who has been charged in the murder of her boyfriend, were booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center Tuesday morning and have since been released on bond.
They had been arrested last week in their home state of Texas to face charges in South Florida.
Each face a charge of unauthorized access to a computer, specifically, the laptop of victim Christian Obumseli, whom their daughter is accused of murdering at their Edgewater apartment on April 3, 2022. Courtney Clenney, 27, claims self-defense; she’s now facing the same computer charge as well.
The Clenneys are accused of acquiring the laptop without permission.
Attorney Jude Faccidomo, however, told reporters Wednesday that the laptop was a “shared computer” that Courtney was permitted to access, as well as her parents.
When asked why she didn’t know the four-digit passcode to the computer when her parents tried accessing it, he said she had already been sitting in jail for a year and had simply forgotten it.
According to Faccidomo, law enforcement swept the apartment after Obumseli’s death and took anything they felt was of evidentiary value, but left the laptop behind.
He said the information on the laptop was “completely useless” to the case.
Faccidomo called the charges against the couple “incredibly troubling,” and said no crime had been committed.
According to Faccidomo, their arrests are an attempt by the state to “bully” and “neutralize” them because they are witnesses for the defense in their daughter’s case.
Authorities obtained a series of text messages between Kim and Deborah Clenney and their daughter’s attorneys regarding Obumseli’s laptop and potential passwords, according to a warrant.
The warrants also mention plans to transfer the laptop to Courtney Clenney’s attorneys and the involvement of an IT expert.
One of those attorneys, in a statement following the Clenneys’ arrests, called the charges “trumped-up” and said they “could be an example of prosecutorial overreach and misconduct.”
Kim and Deborah Clenney walked out of jail together just after 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, holding hands.
If convicted in Obumseli’s murder, Courtney Clenney faces up to life in prison. A trial date has not yet been set.
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