Posted on 11/19/2004 10:30:49 AM PST by Mo1
Yeah, I'd have to agree that is pretty bad.
"CARTER GRANDSON BUSTED
December 7, 2004 -- PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. — A teenage grandson of former President Jimmy Carter has been charged with burglary and possession of marijuana after breaking into a house of a former friend and taking a video-game console, police said.
Jeremy Carter, 17, also was charged with under-aged drinking and was released Sunday on $11,500 bond.
The high school senior is the son of Annette and Jeff Carter, Jimmy Carter's youngest son.
"My son is innocent. This is ridiculous. He will be exonerated," Jeff Carter, 52, said last night.
This NY Post account is very brief but the AJC report offers more details. Apparently, he was caught redhanded in an upstairs bedroom at the home of a friend in an upscale neighborhood, and the people were inside at the time. He rode over to their house on a golf cart and parked it in front of the house. Police found a small bag of marijuana in his shoe and his breathe smelled of alcohol. I certainly don't want any family to have to work through this sort of ordeal, but life surely has a way of reminding us of what is really important. If this young man has a problem, and in the Atlanta Constitution report it seems he well might, I hope he gets the care he needs and soon. NY Post Link The ajc article requires registration.
ROTFL! You enjoy being a mean mommie just a bit too much sometimes.
Wow, Gran. Looking good. You don't waste any time. I wish I had your energy. When I get home, it's all I can do to shower, feed Nermal, fix myself something to eat and FReep.
There has to be blue thingies!.
WOW. The landscaping is shaping up and looking great.
Sharky, if you notice all the camera's going up across the country, the re-naming/numbering of all the rural roads, and all the "Patriot Acts," I would have to say "Yes," it is moving us into a Prison Planet .
Yes, that could be a little disconcerting, especially if he was running around saying "come to poppa!"
The renaming of rural roads began long before 9/11. It is a 911 emergency necessity that all rural areas paid for to have the service. I mean, we have gone past the days of saying "go past the Jarboe place and take a right at the big Oak tree".
I know.
I geuss you have a long lived troll fan.
"Woman Who Gives Abandoned Newborns a Decent Burial Wins $27 Million JackpotLink
By Gillian Flaccus
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - All too often, the ring of Debi Faris-Cifelli's cell phone means there is another abandoned newborn at the morgue, another forsaken child for her to name and bury in a shoebox-size coffin under a white cross in the California desert.
Last week, though, Faris-Cifelli - who has had to rely on donations, grants and fund-raisers to give babies a decent burial - got a very different call.
She had won the California lottery.
The jackpot: $27 million.
"Maybe it's the children saying, 'Thank you' for taking care of them when nobody else would," Faris-Cifelli said, bubbling with laughter. "It's a gift and one for which we feel an awesome responsibility."
The money could not come at a better time for Faris-Cifelli and her Garden of Angels, the tiny cemetery in the town of Calimesa where she has buried dozens of tiny children whose mothers didn't hear - or didn't care - about California's safe-haven law.
Under the 2001 law, parents have three days to abandon infants without fear of prosecution. California is one of 46 states with such a law.
Faris-Cifelli helped win passage of the law and has made it her life's work to spread the word that scared and confused parents should drop their newborns at firehouses and hospitals - not in trash cans and alleys. She lobbies in states without such laws, talks to teens and police and has attended 12 trials of mothers accused of abandoning their infants. She also lays the dead to rest.
Faris-Cifelli, 49, does all that with just a three-person staff and $172,000 annual budget covered by donations, grants, car washes and bake sales.
Now the deeply religious mother and her high school counselor husband, Steve, will receive an after-tax lump sum of nearly $9 million. Some of the winnings will go to the couple's seven children, most to her crusade.
It was only the third time she and her husband had played the lottery. "
You're special to us.
And he's such a bore that he doesn't need to know what he's missing out on.
But yes, it is a neat story, other than the government theft.
We have a current situation with a newborn who was taken into foster care because mom came into the hospital on drugs when she delivered and the baby tested positive for drugs. I think this was on Friday. Now, the mom and her boyfriend have taken off and left the state with the other 2 kids, for all practical purposes, abandoning the baby. Very sad, but then, if they doesn't show back up in fairly short order and it is determined to be abandonment, the case can be fast-tracked, their rights terminated and the baby can be put up for adoption, so it might actually be the best thing that can happen from the baby's perspective.
*Smooch*
Careful Darks, or people will start thinking you have a soft streak.
Well.. I'm only soft on those I care about.
Does AR have that abandoned baby law ?
What law are you referring to?
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