A Richmond woman who worked with an advocacy group for parents in child-custody battles faces two charges of attempted capital murder, accused of arranging a double-killing related to a custody battle of her own.

Virginia State Police arrested Caren Taylor Pressley Brown, who was associated with Children Without a Voice, on Friday in James City County and charged that she had given $2,000 to an undercover police officer to kill her former boyfriend and his wife in Warrenton.

She told the undercover officer she "wanted it done by this coming Sunday," according to the complaint filed in Williamsburg/James City County court. 

Authorities say Brown told the officer that she was upset with the custody arrangement for her 11-year-old son.

She gave the officer $2,000 as a downpayment for the killings, and provided the officer with photographs of the couple and directions to their home, the complaint states.

Brown is charged with two counts each of conspiring and soliciting murder-for-hire under Virginia's capital-murder statute, according to court records.

Children Without a Voice was established in 2006 "after loving, fit, and committed Virginia mothers experienced first hand the injustice of the family court system when their children were wrongfully removed from their custody," according to the non-profit organization's Web site.

The Web site gives an address on St. Christophers Road in the West End of Richmond, which runs through the campus of St. Christopher's School.

The organization also gives a mailing address in Warrenton for contributions.

Brown is being held without bond in Peninsula Regional Jail pending a court appearance Friday.

Contact Michael Martz at mmartz@timesdispatch.com

Times-Dispatch Staff Writer Bill Geroux assisted in this report.