Judge Sends Mother To Jail For Truancy

[presence]

Most parents who fail to send their children to school on a regular basis get warnings. But now things are changing.

http://www.newschannel5.com/story/23233287/judge-sends-mother-to-jail-for-truancy

[kathy88]

That linky goes to some splash page. Can you copy/pasta some of the read or is it all vid?

[tod evans]

If that same mother takes a belt to her little heathens ass she'll be arrested too and the kid shipped off to gladiator camp....


USA, USA!

[eduardo89]

So do homeschoolers get thrown in jail as well?

[presence]

That linky goes to some splash page. Can you copy/pasta some of the read or is it all vid?
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Judge Sends Mother To Jail For Truancy Posted: Aug 22, 2013 5:21 PM EDT Updated: Aug 22, 2013 7:25 PM EDT


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by NICK BERES
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - Juvenile court judge Donna Scott Davenport is sick of parents who don't listen.
"If they don't work with me they are facing jail time," said Davenport.
Most parents who fail to send their children to school on a regular basis get warnings. But now things are changing. One Rutherford county mother found herself behind bars after her 10 year-old son missed nearly a month of school with unexcused absences.
"In this particular case it meant the mother was arrested and had to go to jail," said Kyle Evans with the Murfreesboro Police Dept. Evans said police are seeing more criminal warrants for parents in truancy cases.
The woman's sister said she's glad about the arrest and worries about her nephew.
"I don't even think he's in school today to be honest. And he wasn't yesterday," said Latanya Anderson. She said her sister lets her son stay home to play video games.
"This is a crime," said Judge Davenport.
The judge says she is done with warnings and will now sign more criminal warrants for extreme cases of truancy.
"It's punishable by jail time and a 50 dollar fine for each day a child is not in school," said Davenport.
She and other judges in the mid-state are cracking down as they see more students with a high number of unexcused absences in the new school year.
It's all part of the effort to make sure children don't fall behind in their studies.

[DamianTV]

Not going to a Public School would NEVER be considered a Crime unless someone stood to benefit by the child attending School. I dont think I need to elaborate on that...

(their logic, not mine, not attending school is NOT a crime, ever)

[kathy88]

In original link there's a new story about some over zealous punk 22 year old cop who shot a man on his own property. SMFH.