Rocket Surgeon is scrawled all over this chick's face.
Posted on 05/12/2008 12:49:06 PM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
A northern Kentucky man is in jail today – serving a 180-day sentence – because his 18-year-old daughter failed a math test and didn't get her General Equivalency Diploma, or GED, as a previous court order required.
Brittany Gegner, the daughter, says if anyone should be jailed, it should be her.
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Butler County Juvenile Court Judge David Niehaus ordered Gegner to jail for contributing to the delinquency of a minor by not following a court order which required Gegner to be sure his daughter got her GED.
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Just sayin'.
This is from the state that is rushing out to vote for Hillary in the primary?
What about jailing the father of the baby?
Roger that.
Not the brightest star in the sky, eh?
Note to self. Stay away from Kentucky.
Rocket Surgeon is scrawled all over this chick's face.
Something doesn’t add up here
We gotta stop these people from multiplying — or it will divide America. Subtract out this Rediculus sentence, and there still is enough calculus to show the geometry of a country gone wrong.
18 and still considered a minor...??...i thought at 18 you reached the age of majority and was considered an adult...if so the father is doing time for the daughter not following a court order....America is lost folks....
It takes a village...
I don’t think so...they shoulda jailed the kid, too. We’ve allowed the pendulum to swing too far off center with the treatment of juveniles. Perhaps if we started holding parents responsible for their kids REPEATED actions the snotty attitudes of both proud parent and recalcitrant kid might decrease.
I can assure you, if I would have known I would be held responsible if my kid failed a court ordered assignment, as this dad did, you can bet your last dollar I would have made sure my kid had all the tools necessary to ace the exam even if I had to take a leave of absence from work.
This maybe, by the degree of protestation by the teen, been the hook it took to get her attention.
The progressive infantilization of citizens was accelerated by raising the drinking age to 21. When people accept that it’s OK for the state to treat adults like children, this sort of thing is bound to happen.
The daughter asked the dad why he slapped the bodyguard and not her. He said, “It will hurt you more to slap her.”
Maybe this is a wakeup call to this spoiled girl that her laziness and stupidity do have consequences for other people and to wake her out of her selfishness.
Bring back the shotgun marriage.
Young men would be a lot more careful where they rubbed their jubblies if this was a possible consequence.
On the other hand, the father/mother obviously let their daughter go unchaperoned at least once. So they, too, share in the blame.
Not too often you find an entire family that wants to and deserves to serve time together. This judge missed a perfect opportunity.
One fascinating detail is that Miss Gegner's parents are divorced and that her soon-to-be-incarcerated father had custody.
That's fairly rare.
More interestingly, even though he had custody - a situation many divorced fathers can only pray for - she was living with her mom and a truant from school while he supposedly was in charge of her upbringing.
To be honest, I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for any parent who stands for his child cutting school.
My parents made my education and that of my siblings their first priority.
This guy is both a poster-child for (due to the harshness of his punishment) and an embarrassment to (due to his failure to even bother maintaining custody) the fathers' rights movement.
it just amazes me that she is considered a minor....when at 18 you can join the military...vote etc...even alot of 16 yr olds are tried as adults now .....just seems we call it whatever fits the needs of the justice system anymore....
As you know, there's a lot of gray area between 18 and 21.
Try buying alcohol at the age of 18.
Not every offense is litigated the same day it is charged.
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