Posted on 02/11/2015 9:11:47 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
19-year-old Alecia Faith Pennington has spent her life so sheltered by her Christian fundamentalist parents that now, as a young adult, she is finding it almost impossible to prove to the government that she actually exists.
In a video uploaded to YouTube and quickly going viral, Pennington documents the various ways her parents have managed to prevent leaving even a single speck of evidence to help her gain an official identity or to prove that she is a United States citizen. For starters, they gave birth to her at home, and declined to get a birth certificate or social security number. She was then homeschooled, and the family never took her to a hospital or doctor’s office.
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All her grandparents, her mom & dad, and next in age sister (17 year old Patience Elizabeth) were born here; the documents exist.
Patience’s parents (Alecia’s) are listed on her birth record.
Alecia has a notarized document showing her last name change from the one that is on her dads birth record to his current one; she got it after moving into her maternal grandparents home.
Said grandparents are helping her.
How would it be against the law to document accurate information, as in a birth record for her?
She now has a lawyer taking her case.
Also, the dads last name on Patience’s birth doc is the same as on Alecia’s notarized doc.
You’re absolutely correct in that its gonna be a long difficult process.
My daughter recently had her purse stolen. Getting a new ID without an ID is damn near impossible.
Yes, and you can do affidavits of birth, etc.
Not complex.
I can imagine..
What did you end up doing, in order to get her docs?
So far we have ordered her BC. Not much of anything else you can do until getting that.
A long long time ago a friend of mine had his wallet stolen. We went to DPS to get him a replacement license. They asked if he had anything with his name on it. He said, “Yeah my shirt.” The lady said turn around. His shirt said “Martin” on it so she gave him a replacement license.
See my FRmail, interesting issues with this situation.
She doesn’t know how lucky she is...
Claim she’s an illegal and she’ll be fine.
Why the heck does the government hassle citizens over this and not illegals?
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Interesting situation......
We have a man in White House who hasn’t resolved his paperwork problem.
Indeed, he’s got quite a number of unresolved issues.
OMG!!! Aren't they ISIS like????
Awesome.....
LOL
Good point!!!
Thought about having my kids at home...but was more $$. Had them at a Doc’s office....was cheaper. Right around the corner from a hospital...No worries....Been done a billion or two times.....
I saw this story somewhere else recently.
Yeah, interesting situation.
There seems to be more to the story, though. The mother claims that this girl’s older siblings were able to get their driver’s licenses, jobs, etc.
I saw this story on a news website recently. But here, you and other FReepers have done a lot of research on this case.
If the girl’s older siblings were able to go to college, work, drive, etc., then maybe this girl should sit down with her parents and work through the process with them, too.
In the meantime, this girl is complaining about not being able to go to college, get a job, driver’s license, etc. But, how can that be so? Plenty of “undocumented” people are going to college and working in Texas.
A quick search shows that “undocumented” students can establish residency in Texas, go to college there, and even receive Texas tuition aid:
http://www.finaid.txstate.edu/more-info/TASFA.html
Once in college, she’ll have a college ID card, a college transcript, mail from government agencies to her address, etc. - all documents that can be used to help her with identification. She’s probably going to need her parents to verify at some point, however.
If all that fails, she can commit a crime and get herself arrested. I noticed that Texas considers a criminal record to be proper documentation. (Ironic, isn’t it?)
BTW, as a recent victim of identity theft, the way I look at it, this girl isn’t in such a bad situation. ;-)
To a certain extent, though, I can sympathize with her on the red tape and bureaucracy. Recently I asked to apply for a filing fee waiver for filing court docs. You can’t apply for a waiver unless you have a bank account statement showing a balance. If you have so little money that you have no bank account, you don’t receive a waiver. So, no waiver for me...
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