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Mom violates probation with Today Show appearance
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| 5 27 05
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Posted on 05/27/2005 9:16:41 AM PDT by freepatriot32
Elkhart, IN - An Elkhart boy who climbed into a crane machine last week has garnered national attention including an appearance on the Today Show but the media spotlight almost landed his mother in jail.
According to our reporting partners at The Truth, the boy's mother, 22-year-old Danielle Manges, violated her probation Monday when she went to New York and appeared on the Today Show with her son.
Manges pleaded guilty last year to a felony charge of auto theft and was sentenced last October to 18 months of probation.
Her Today Show appearance was her third violation in a few months but Manges avoided arrest on a bench warrant by appearing in court Wednesday.
Last week, 3-year-old Jimmy Manges climbed inside a crane game machine at a Wal-Mart in Elkhart to get a toy. Rescue crews were called in to get him out.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: appearance; cpswatch; donutwatch; elkhart; govwatch; indiana; mom; probation; show; today; violates; with
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To: freepatriot32
Wow. She's a car thief and a terrible mom. She deserves all the adulation and publicity.
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posted on
05/27/2005 9:18:44 AM PDT
by
wideawake
(God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
To: wideawake
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posted on
05/27/2005 9:19:43 AM PDT
by
Txsleuth
(Mark Levin for Supreme Court Justice)
To: freepatriot32
Nice, a whole family of idiots. They should be studied so we can isolate that idiot gene and cleanse it from the gene pool.
Owl_Eagle
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
it was probably sarcasm)
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posted on
05/27/2005 9:21:53 AM PDT
by
End Times Sentinel
(In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
To: freepatriot32
Is this the 3-year-old who killed his girl-friend and then climbed on top of enormous crane machine, and has been there since Wednesday in Buckhead?
Mebbe I'm getting my wacky stories mixed up ...
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posted on
05/27/2005 9:23:49 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: freepatriot32
Car thief, convicted felon with multiple probation violations and her stupid kid to star on Today Show.
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posted on
05/27/2005 9:25:21 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(If our nation be destroyed, it would be from the judiciary." ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: freepatriot32
The Today Show has now officially become Jerry Springer A.M.. LOL!
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
05/27/2005 9:27:10 AM PDT
by
andyk
(Go Matt Kenseth!)
To: upchuck
She was on the Today Show bragging about what a poor mother she is?
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posted on
05/27/2005 9:28:24 AM PDT
by
jaydubya2
To: wideawake
And if this woman were to scribble some memoirs, a big publishing house would be happy to give a a lucrative contract and advance and editor/ghostwriter to turn them into a book.
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posted on
05/27/2005 9:31:08 AM PDT
by
Montfort
(President George Allen)
To: freepatriot32
My first clue that this was not the "mom of the year" was the fact that this happened at 3:30 in the morning. What kind of idiot takes their kid to Walmart at that time of morning?
To: freepatriot32
Manges pleaded guilty last year to a felony charge of auto theft and was sentenced last October to 18 months of probation. Her Today Show appearance was her third violation in a few months but Manges avoided arrest on a bench warrant by appearing in court Wednesday. After reading this, I am now convinced that the kid didn't climb into the vending machine on his own.
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posted on
05/27/2005 9:34:01 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine. I ain't rich, but lord I'm free.)
To: wideawake
By the looks of her I doubt if she could fit inside a real crane.
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posted on
05/27/2005 9:36:15 AM PDT
by
MCRD
To: freepatriot32
next stop,
Jacko's Neverland
To: wideawake
I pity that child. This being her *third* probation violation why in the hell has it not been revoked!? She's NEVER reform, she's never improve as a mother and her child will end up no better than she. I hate the Media. Is there some reason she couldn't have done a remote appearance instead of going to NY... seems to me Today's Show should have some measure of liability since they probably paid for her trip?
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posted on
05/27/2005 9:54:23 AM PDT
by
newzjunkey
(Remind Liberal Cowards Why America Freed Iraq: http://massgraves.info/)
To: freepatriot32
I wouldn't be surprised if she stuck him in there on purpose so she could sue Wal Mart. She seems like the type.
Poor kid. Ain't just poor black kids growing up with problems.
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posted on
05/27/2005 9:54:33 AM PDT
by
Conservatrix
("He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.")
To: freepatriot32
Maybe the kid climbed in hoping that someone with more brains would pick him out and take him home.
To: freepatriot32
I wonder if she is related to this lady.........
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posted on
05/27/2005 9:56:41 AM PDT
by
Jackknife
(No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.-MacArthur)
To: wideawake
Maybe mom was training the kid for a life of crime?
To: jakkknife
That is priceless. That poor little bugger.
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posted on
05/27/2005 9:58:48 AM PDT
by
wideawake
(God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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