When our legal system punishes ones like this while reward ones like Party Time or Abandoning Children's Parents with mercy and help something bad, bad, is wrong in our justice system. I've seen it lots of times waiting outside court in the hallways.
Parents or grandparents raising grand kids & struggling with serious problems or ones trying to care for kids that parents don't want & really struggling and trying will get made examples of by egotistical judges. Parents who don't care about their kids in today's system will get rewarded by the system by same judges.
I observed two judges BTW over a two year time frame. In one of them Outlaw Parents meaning ones abusing, or neglected etc ruled. Woe unto anyone who spoke against such a wonderful parent in court. They got made an example of. Believe me I have had the contempt charge experience to know as much.
The other judge was rough on truancy to an extreme but not hard enough on abusers. If the judge did crack down on neglect or abuse Judge Bleeding Heart Liberal upstairs found a way to help poor Party or Abuser Parents especially the mother to get the kids back without even remorse. That judge made every excuse in the world to let even hard core abusers off.
Truancy laws past age 16 exist for one sole purpose. To fund the education system by compulsory attendance. The issues at that point isn't right or wrong or about a 17 year olds struggle. It's about federal and state funding too school districts. Sad but true that is all it is. You show up for school and sit there you'll get a D and pass. State and local district gets federal funds and all civil servants and tenured are happy. This kid had good grades and that proves my point in itself. It's not about education it's about money.
Has anyone stepped forward yet and said her situation is false? Watch what happens next. The siblings will likely get placed into the state custody system as the girl by state standards can not be the parent. This girl gets a criminal record. Watch as parents eventually come back and get the kids and get off Scott free {except a few required classes on parenting} maybe even public assistance to help with the kids.
My whole point is that as conservatives, we do not believe in giving judges leeway of making law, only following it, unless SPECIFIC guidelines are given UNDER the law. If not, we are no better than the liberal scum we detest!
It is really easy to join the mob hating Judge Moriarty. But until I am convinced that he violated the law he has sworn to uphold, I will not convict him.
Fire away.....