Posted on 08/13/2006 9:51:12 AM PDT by rawhide
MADISON, Wis. - A mother has been charged with helping her 13-year-old son search for someone to rob.
The boy told police his mother, Janine C. Lewis, drove him around Stoughton Tuesday night, helping him look for someone to rob, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday in Dane County Circuit Court.
The boy told police he had talked to her about committing robberies, but she discouraged him. Still, he said she agreed to drive him around to look for a victim, the complaint said.
They found a man at a car wash. She asked him if he really wanted to go through with it. He said he did, and she told him to be careful, the complaint said.
The boy approached the man with a gun and demanded money, he told police.
But the would-be victim realized the boy's gun was actually a BB gun. He knocked it out of the boy's hand, chased him down and held him until police arrived.
A woman later identified as Lewis asked the boy as he was being arrested, "What were you doing?"
"I needed some money," the boy said, according to the complaint.
Officers tracked down Lewis at her home, where she gave officers a false name, according to the complaint. She also said she did not know her son was committing the robbery or that he had a gun, the complaint said. She also said she only happened by chance to be in the area when the robbery occurred, according to the complaint.
She later acknowledged she helped her son commit the robbery, saying she told him it was something they could do together, according to the complaint.
Lewis, 36, of Stoughton, faces one count of contributing to the delinquency of a child and a count of attempted armed robbery...
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SO, GET A FREAKIN' JOB, ALREADY!
Throw the book at her and lock away the key.
Good grief! Just when you think you've heard everything.....
old enough to rob people, but too young to have a job... ironic.
I'm sorry, I know this is a horrid tale, but the way this story is written cracks me up. She "thought it was something they could do together" ROFLMAO!
I'm just different. When I want to do something with my kids we go to the park or the pool or shopping or maybe to a Cubs game.
Please Mom, can I, huh? Please? Please? PLEEAAAASSEE let me rob somebody, please!!!
The family that preys together, stays together.
SO, GET A FREAKIN' JOB, ALREADY!
Not against you ... but a huge problem is that kids CANNOT get part time jobs anymore thanks to the scumbag lawyers, judges, and progressives who want only a nanny-state.
in this perspective, they are bred and taught by the progressive government to be criminals.
Lol! Very good one!
She must not understand the meaning of "quality time" spent together.
Why no picture of the mother? Is the press hiding anything?
No mention of a father.
They can still mow yards, wash cars and stuff.
You noticed that too, huh?
those jobs are reserved for the illegals to do.
Only if people hire them. Kids don't seem to need to work today though.
Can't - "child labor" laws.
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