Posted on 09/21/2018 8:37:19 PM PDT by simpson96
HUDSONVILLE, Mich.--A Michigan mother arrested after stealing her teen daughter's cell phone as a form of discipline has been vindicated.
The Ottawa County prosecutor dismissed the charges against the local woman on Tuesday. Questions remain, however, as to why she was arrested in the first place.
"I would like answers on why it got so far and how it got this far where this happened within my home. I'm disciplining my child, then I'm being the one handcuffed," Jodie May told WOOD-TV.
May was nursing her 4-week-old baby the day before Mother's Day when a deputy knocked on her door, telling her she'd be arrested on a misdemeanor theft charge.
"He had told me that he was going to arrest me, and I asked him if I could turn myself in on that Monday by myself, that I had a new baby. She wasn't taking the bottle yet," she said.
Her proposals weren't accepted. She was arrested and taken to a holding cell before being released two hours later on a $200 bond.
May told WOOD-TV that she took her 15-year-old daughter's iPhone 6 away in April after she got in trouble at school. However, Ron Frantz, the prosecutor, said the mom never told the original deputies that she'd taken the phone away to punish her daughter. In fact, it was never mentioned in the original report. The mom, though, claims she did tell the deputy upfront.
May's ex-husband, who reported the alleged theft, told deputies that he owned the phone, but the mom says the phone was a Christmas gift from her ex-husband to her daughter.
"I believe the prosecutor knew the whole time. It was an easy question to have answered," May said.
Just a few short minutes into the trial, the assistant prosecutor announced it was, indeed,
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I wonder if she will SWAT him.
If she was my sister or my daughter, I would encourage her to SWAT him at the most inconvenient time. Give ‘Goober’ a taste of his own nasty medicine! Or let me do it for her.
I can be pretty diabolical when it serves the purpose.
Just joking!
I heard about this today on the Janet Parshall radio show.
You don’t know it’s a false accusation. The dad gave it to her so he’s probably paying the bill, which makes it his phone. She could be trying to keep the daughter from talking to him. Or not. I’m just saying there’s always at least two sides. People are way to quick to jump to conclusions based on half the story.
Right there. Explains a lot. Keep it up buddy and you'll start losing visitation and pay more for your little princess' upkeep when the custody judge hears this.
The father of my grandsons pressed charges against my daughter for slapping him ONCE. She wasn’t allowed to turn herself in either - thankfully, the cops waited for us to get there to take the boys to “breakfast” so they wouldn’t see their mom in handcuffs. (oh, how many cops DON’T wear their nameplates on duty?)
This case came “off the shelf” incredibly fast due to the complainant being a former cop.
Finally dismissed after 2nd lawyer made it clear that my daughter was abused by the “system”. STILL waiting until it’s time to have this expunged.
This abuse by the system cost her $7500 and a day in JAIL.
Kind of false story.
Headline should be “Ex-husband frames woman for stealing phone”.
Yes she was arrested, but it was on the ex-husband’s lie that it was his phone. He should pull a perjury charge, or lying to police, or filing a false police report. Either way, he needs jail time for it.
$7500!!!??
Money she won’t ever get back.
Hopefully, those two can work things out, for the sake of your grandsons, if not themselves. Maybe they’ll benefit from a few Anger Management classes or Marriage Counseling.
Many times, children pick up on tension between their parents, and may act it out scene by scene as they get older.
The kids are very lucky to have you, a loving Grand parent in their lives.
You are wrong. If you give me something, it is mine, even if you are paying everything for it.
Give, not lend.
If he leant her the phone, it is his
If he gave her the phone, it is hers.
If he is paying for a phone he gave her, the most power he has is to stop paying, upon which the company will cease service to HER phone.
Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES do you ever own real property you “gave” to another party. Period.
It is NOT his phone, so quit saying that. He gave her the phone. It is hers. He did not loan it to her, he gave it to her.
Quit saying it is his phone. It is not. She owns it. It is her phone.
Very strange. If this story is correct, she should seek compensation.
Where were the protesters when this nursing mother was ripped from her infant?
Mark
"Since the (city/county/state) has decided that it should be the parent rather than me, in deciding I was not allowed to discipline my child, I agree to the (city/county/state)'s decision to become the child's parent, and take over all responsibilities up to and including putting her through college. Please come and pick up her stuff as soon as possible, I want to set up a man-cave in her room."
Mark
Just a few words on the other side of this story.
My ex was very big in playing phone rinky-dinks whenever I wanted to all my daughter. This was long enough ago that cell phones were unusual and expensive, but every time I called on the house phone my daughter was “not available”. I would have gladly added another phone to my cell plan and given it to my daughter so I could talk to her.
I very much suspect that the phone in question was an additional line on the father’s plan, and therefore his property.
Mother’s day was May 13 this year, and the phone was taken away in April. A few days restriction on the phone might be reasonable, but this is somewhere between 2 and 6 weeks of restriction, with no end in sight.
I think the mother was trying to prevent the father from contacting his daughter, using “discipline” as an excuse. And, I think she deserves to be arrested for that kind of BS.
The right way to do this would be to give the phone back to the father for a set period of time. When the mother takes the phone away and keeps it that is stealing no matter how you slice it.
Or, possibly forbid her from taking the phone to school for a period of time — say a few days or a week. The mother was being unreasonable and got caught.
There were 2 attorneys - one who was LAZY, but did keep kicking the court day down the road. Then counseled her to take probation - we doubt he ever talked to DA to talk them out of prosecuting.
Wished we had found the second guy first - within 3 days, he had spoken to DA with instructions for her to take anger management classes/counseling with hope of dismissal. After counseling showed how the system was gamed against her, charges were dismissed. Expungement will erase the arrest - have to wait another 6 months to start on that.
They didn’t work it out - sadly, his momma sorta made it impossible.
First of all, phones are not “real property”. That refers to land and buildings.
Second, you are just wrong about ownership. If I get 4 phones on a family plan contingent on say 3 years service I’m the owner of those phones. Just because I give them to my minor children doesn’t mean they legally own them. And since I’m legally responsible for the charges made on them, I have a vested interest who has physical possession of it.
Third if the daughter legally owns it, then the mother did steal it when she took it away. You are arguing out of both sides of your mouth. Either the father owns it or the daughter does. Certainly not the mother. If she didn’t want the daughter to have it she should have given it back to the father. I suspect though this was about the father wanting to be able to contact the daughter and visa versa, and the mother not wanting them to do so.
Finally don’t presume to ell me to “quit saying that”. Who the hell do you think you are?
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