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Posted on 08/24/2026 3:25:53 AM PDT by Adder
There are cases where the law tells you what happened but leaves out almost everything that explains why it happened… and that can be very troubling, and you go straight into the weaponization pool.
Shana Gaviola’s case feels like one of those situations.
The federal government’s version of this case is brutal and really straightforward. They say Gaviola violated a restraining order involving her teenage son, arranged to have him taken from California to a Christian boarding school in Missouri, and the people transporting him kept him handcuffed for more than 24 hours.
She broke the law, a jury convicted her, and now she’s been sentenced to three years in federal prison.
But that very dry and clinical version of the story leaves out the chunk that turned this case into a rallying cry for parental-rights warriors.
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Meanwhile, a Mom in NY is being hailed a hero for killing her kids and may very well walk away from murder.
Sad times we live in...
Sounds like a Federal case. I think Trump can pardon her. Right? (Not sure.)
> the people transporting him kept him handcuffed for more than 24 hours <
If that’s true, it sure would sway a jury.
It is a Federal case. She broke state law then crossed state lines. The crock in this whole sorry affair is the rotten state law she broke.
I think Trump can pardon her. Right?
That is my understanding...admittedly, from the article.
> the people transporting him kept him handcuffed for more than 24 hours <
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If the people transporting the kid were cruel, she should be in jail, and so should the people transporting him.
The father also quit his job and put the family home up for sale in preparation for a move to Florida. A little over ten years later in Florida, the son and his parents are happily working out the details of his plans for college and marriage to his longtime girlfriend.
I tried to read the article, the flood of gross and yucky Ads kept getting in the way. The first paragraph tells me what I need to know for now. I hope the Mom doesn’t have to serve all 3 years in lock-up.
That’s the answer to this insanity. No matter what it takes, find a way or make a way to remove your kids from the government indoctrination centers they call schools.
One through line here is the age of emancipation. This boy was 16. He couldn’t legally buy cigarettes, alcohol or a gun. He couldn’t enlist in the military. I guess at 16 he could probably drop out of school. The age of consent for sexual relations varies from state to state. California, I don’t know. But at 16, I doubt that he could consent to major medical procedures, and I recall that when my daughters were in high school, we were still signing blanket permission forms throughout so that the school nurse or an athletic trainer could give them asprin or treat scrapes and sprained ankles.
The point is that the age of emancipation has become a very complicated thing. Because kids mature at different rates and often have asymmetrical development. The big three dimensions in our popular imaginations are social, physical and intellectual maturation, and a lot of the miseries of the teen years have to do with kids who are precocious in one area but lag in another.
The sexual revolutionaries tend to want to push the age of sexual emancipation steadily lower. The pedophiles are already waiting in the wings for their moment to fight openly to be legitimized. The trans activists are already there, and in blue states, the schools have been totally captured, with children from preschool on being groomed and recruited by teachers and counselors while very aggressive friend groups run amuck. And aside from the schools, there is a toxic online culture that supports this, with the Big Therapy and Big Pharma complex eager to monetize it. They have turned mental illness into a lucrative profit center, and diagnoses and courses of treatment are profit driven.
The State of California empowers all this and is eager to preempt parental rights across the board.
In this case, the boy was 16. He had already left home and was living with another family. He had filed a legal request for emancipation from his mother.
The mom, of course, was probably right all along. The boy is mentally ill. The linked story says he is now 21 and has not yet transitioned. The mom’s delaying action may have saved his life. The vast majority of the kids who go through a trans phase grow out of it pretty quickly if they are given the chance and get rational parenting, counseling and therapy. But in California, the lunatics run the asylum.
P.S. The father is nowhere mentioned. Project away.
Mother trying to save her son from irreversible mutilation and from trying to make a nightmarish “fantasy” come true.
She crossed state lines - making it a Federal Crime - hope Trump pardons her.
Sad times we live in...
Agree it’s becoming a monkey see monkey do deal feral fever ensues.
The people transitioning him, should either be shot or go to prison. The people in the California legislature who created such a law, should be shot or sent to prison.
Not if the underlying law is unconstitutional, which I it is.
From one of the linked articles. Has anyone come across any comments the now 21 year-old son might have made?
Priorities correct. It's hard to leave a job and a home, much harder to do nothing while your child gets brainwashed into mutilation of both mind and body.
If that insanity should come to my state, I'll be out of it within DAYS, leaving no forwarding address. (I was homeschooled, and would never subject my children to government education in the first place. It's welfare cheese for the mind.)
The cruelty was with the people who were trying to goad him into mutilating himself and destroy his masculinity and ability to ever have a natural family. And his mother is being imprisoned for trying to rescue him from those monsters. Thankfully she was successful!
We used to believe that power came from the people and flowed upwards, not downwards. One application of this is that families should be self-governing so far as possible and so long as their actions do not violate higher laws based on powers delegated (again, upwards) from the people to civil government. As a minor it follows that he was under his mothers' care, and she was certainly trying to care for him in this case. If you are going to consider the handcuffs a problem then you might as well treat every parent holding a screaming toddler's hand firmly so they can't tear away to be a criminal in the same fashion.
“.. and the people transporting him kept him handcuffed for more than 24 hours.”
Which made this a kidnapping. I understand her motives and even her desperation but the above has no excuse.
If he was handcuffed and forcibly taken across state lines it certainly is a federal crime. Whether the state law which initiated the court cases is unconstitutional has no bearing on the legality of abduction.
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