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Next On 'Springer': Mom Sent To Jail
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 1/20/06 | Dan Rozek

Posted on 01/20/2006 11:07:18 AM PST by steve-b

The tickets were free, but a Westmont woman is paying a steep price -- 30 days in jail -- for attending a taping of "The Jerry Springer Show'' last fall.

Shannon N. Cook was sentenced to the jail term because she left her three young children home alone for hours last October while she watched the show being taped in Chicago.

The youngsters, all younger than 5, were found unattended Oct. 19 after the two oldest left their apartment and began knocking on a neighbor's door, authorities said.

The neighbor called police, who were stunned to see such young children left home alone, said Westmont Police Detective Jim Schlicher....

(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: childabuse; idiot; springer
Maybe next time, she can be on stage.
1 posted on 01/20/2006 11:07:19 AM PST by steve-b
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2 posted on 01/20/2006 11:09:44 AM PST by EASYACES
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Jerry, Jerry, Jerry !


3 posted on 01/20/2006 11:12:31 AM PST by se_ohio_young_conservative (God makes us strong for alittle while so that we can protect the weak)
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"Mothers who leave their pre-school kids at home so they can go to a Springer taping...next Springer."


4 posted on 01/20/2006 11:15:33 AM PST by RichInOC ("Oh, no, you dint. Oh, no, you DINT!")
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There's some question about the ages--between 3 years and 9 months or 3 years and 5 months. She said she didn't think she would be gone until almost 1 in the morning.


5 posted on 01/20/2006 11:25:15 AM PST by beaversmom
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She said she didn't think she would be gone until almost 1 in the morning.

WTF? Is she advancing the excuse that it would have been OK to leave toddlers alone for a few hours, but nine hours was too long?

6 posted on 01/20/2006 11:27:33 AM PST by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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Yep, sounds like a Springer fan.


7 posted on 01/20/2006 11:29:20 AM PST by sandbar (when)
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Sleazy, scum of the earth people at a sleazy, scum of the earth Springer show?

Gee, who could've seen that coming?

8 posted on 01/20/2006 11:30:14 AM PST by libs_kma (USA: The land of the Free....Because of the Brave!)
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"Mothers who leave their pre-school kids at home so they can go to a Springer taping...next Springer."

LOL!

9 posted on 01/20/2006 11:31:10 AM PST by TChris ("Unless you act, you're going to lose your world." - Mark Steyn)
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Beeyoch, hope she rots there.


10 posted on 01/20/2006 11:38:15 AM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
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AH, Jerry Springer, the liberal RAT icon! TV's trashiest host of the trashiest TV show and Air Amerika talk show host. This is what happens when dem/lib/socialist politicians "retire" from politics. Be afraid -- be very afraid!


11 posted on 01/20/2006 11:54:42 AM PST by Polyxene (For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
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Jerry Springer is like Howard Stern, he'll always have his little band of followers who have a collective IQ of maybe 40 at best.


12 posted on 01/20/2006 11:56:29 AM PST by NRA1995 (GOOOOOOO STEELERS!!!)
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Only 30 days in jail for leaving her babies so long, and her scumbag boyfriend goes on his merry way......why do these women always seem to have trash for boyfriends..


13 posted on 01/20/2006 12:01:58 PM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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Not all trailer trash lives in the rural south, some of it obviously lives in Chicago.
14 posted on 01/20/2006 12:18:32 PM PST by Talking_Mouse (Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just... Thomas Jefferson)
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