Posted on 08/16/2007 6:28:11 PM PDT by NCjim
Bolivia, NC - A 16-year-old girl who married her 40-year-old former teacher cannot force her parents to return her Beanie Baby collection, a PlayStation video game console and other belongings, a judge ruled.
Windy Wuchae filed a lawsuit against her parents, Dennis and Betty Hager, for items valued at more than $1,000 that her parents kept after she moved out to marry Brenton Wuchae, her cross-country coach at South Brunswick High School.
Magistrate Deborah Ramphal dismissed the case, but said the teenager could appeal.
Brenton Wuchae resigned his teaching and coaching position in June on the same day he married Windy. The couple now works at a Food Lion grocery store in Oak Island, where both the Wuchaes and Hagers live.
Robert Tatum, an attorney for the Hagers, said Windy's property and earnings belonged to her parents because they were obtained before she was emancipated. The Hagers reluctantly signed consent forms allowing the marriage.
"The case was dismissed as a matter of law because all of the items belong to her parents," Tatum said after the hearing Wednesday. Both couples declined comment.
The Hagers have also filed lawsuits against two school systems. One accuses the school board in Guilford County – where Brenton Wuchae worked before moving to Bruswick County – of failing to alert authorities that he had inappropriate relationships with female students at Southern Guilford High School.
The second lawsuit accuses the Bruswick County school system of failing to adequately investigate Wuchae. School officials have said they found no evidence of any romantic relationship and put limits on Wuchae's contact with Windy.
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Love against spite... guess which wins in the end.
Woohoo...the Cowboys
There’s a lot not being reported here, but it doesn’t leave the parents looking very good.
Maybe not. They may have very good reasons.
I think it doesn’t leave the coach looking very good.
Whichever one has the best lawyer...???
I wonder how many other young women this”coach”tried to get his nasty hands on.
The name “Hager” certainly seems popular today. Could it be that the ONLY reason this little piece of info we really didn’t need made the news is the impending marriage of a different “Hager” to someone better known?
Can’t imagine why the parents would want to keep beanie-babies!!
Painful lesson so early in life.
Um... That would be former coach. His current job description can pretty much be summed up as "paper or plastic."
I wonder how he's going to feel in a couple of years or so when some hunky 24 year-old comes into the Food Lion and sweeps his teenage bride off her feet. Young girls can be fickle like that, ya' know.
Everyone involved in this mess seems way beyond warm and fuzzy delving into sick and pitiful.
eBay speculation.
If the parents really don’t want to give those items up, they should be having a bonfire right now.
I have Beanie Babies for my Granddaughter. She plays with them at my house under supervision. She also has a jewelry box next to mine. She knows to put her jewelry back before going home. I’m not mean. If it goes to her house, the “black hole” gets it. Her parents may be expecting her back or keeping them for her until she is older and matured.
sickness at its best!!!!!!!! what in the hell is a matter with these school boards this day and age.
Kind of emblematic!
Little girl gets seduced into growing up fast;
Then she reaches back for beanie babies childhood symbols;
She doesn’t get them back.
A song, “Puff the Magic Dragon” comes to mind.
There’s overpowering symbolism in this story.
Wow, there’s so much messed up I don’t even know where to begin. FWIW, the teacher should definetly be behind bars.
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