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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Wouldn’t she be a citizen by virtue of her parents?
Hmmm....she’s 19? I have an extra room she can stay in. Rent’s pretty cheap, too.
Do like my dad did.
He needed a birth certificate to get a passport and when he was born in 1902 they didn’t issue them to most people born.
He had to sue San Diego County and then prove he was born in De Mar which he did by his mother testifying.
Sounds like Mormon fundamentalists. I call BS for most of it if they aren’t.
What the Hell difference does it make anyway? — Hillary
I did’t have to be a citizen and look where I’m at... BHO?
“This story sounds wacky, but what got me about the other story was, here these kids have been in the charge of the state for their entire lives, and yet there’s still no system in place to get them some kind of birth certificate, etc.?”
The U.S. State Department has procedures for establishing U.S. citizenship for abandoned children with parents of unknown citizenship.
“She lacks the birth certificate or comparable documentation to prove who her parents are.
Sure, DNA, eyewitness statements, it can't be such a big deal, my mom didn't have a birth certificate and didn't know which state she was born in, and she lived a normal American life.
“He had to sue San Diego County and then prove he was born in De Mar which he did by his mother testifying.”
She has already tried to file a delayed birth certificate, but the judge denied the application on the grounds there was insufficient documentation of the birth and parentage. Her parents refuse to sign a document acknowledging the delayed birth certificate. It is implied the girl does not know of enough other witnesses to support the delayed birth certificate claims despite her parents’ refusal to acknowledge the birth.
Del Mar must have been something when he was a kid, I lived there in the mid 1970s before the population crush, and it was a great little beach community.
Here’s a rundown on what they’ve tried.
looks like the big problem is proving citizenship & the catch 22 of needing docs in order to get docs.
Aside:
I asked someone in the sovereign citizen movement 20 years ago about this scenario, what if their kids were born at home , homeschooled, and never got a birth cert or soc sec number.
They hadn’t an answer about how, when the kid was 21, the kid would be able to travel (inside or outside the us) in order to work, even if they did work “off the books”.
The stage went out of business when the railroad went through and my dad worked during high school hauling newspapers and small freight in a model T from San Diego and blew up all the sloughs for mullet and sold them for chicken feed to buy the stage property from the stage company.
I used to play on the stage in the barn when I was a kid in the 40s.
Or find a hungry and aggressive shark to represent her.
Since it would appear she lacks funds, said shark must be the type that is sustained by collateral chum.
She should claim that her name is Alecia Obama, then no one will refuse her.
I wish the government didn’t know who our where I am.
She should confer with one of her parents to get the birth certificate, by the way. It’s not something that one can do by oneself. She could deal with her parents antagonistically through a third party, but that might be regrettable later on.
So she has as much and as valid ID as the president!
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