[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

I think I know of a judge what needs a good tail whippin'.

Just sayin'.

[LottieDah]

This is from the state that is rushing out to vote for Hillary in the primary?

[spanalot]

What about jailing the father of the baby?

[ComputerGuy]

Roger that.

[TLI]

his 18-year-old daughter failed a math test

Judge David Niehaus ordered Gegner to jail for contributing to the delinquency of a minor

Not the brightest star in the sky, eh?

[microgood]

Note to self. Stay away from Kentucky.

[Lazamataz]

Rocket Surgeon is scrawled all over this chick's face.

[clamper1797]

Something doesn’t add up here

[bigfootbob]

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.

[Tamar1973]

There is a certain logic to this. I remember a scene from a Japanese TV drama called Hotelier. A spoiled rich brat tried to run away from home. Rich daddy had a female body guard stay at the house specifically to prevent said female brat from leaving the house. She got out of the house anyway, but not very far. Daddy brings brat home and as the bodyguard is rushing out the door to apologize to her boss, he slaps her across the face right in front of the daughter.

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.

[Dixie Yooper]

Brittany told WCPO-TV in Cincinnati. "I would way rather me go to jail than my dad." Even Brian Gegner's ex-wife agrees the judge's decision is absurd. "They probably should have punished me if they were going to punish anybody," said Brittany's mother Shana Roach. "Because she did live with me at the time, but because he had the custody, that's why he's being punished.

Not too often you find an entire family that wants to and deserves to serve time together. This judge missed a perfect opportunity.

[wideawake]

It's an interesting case.

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.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

There's a lot of missing information — but, from what is written in the article; the sentence seems ludicrous.

What powers did the father actually have over the girl — especially when she was living with her mother? Suppose he tried to use corporal punishment to enforce curfews and study time — what charges would he then be facing? Suppose he tried to prevent the girl from visiting her mother — would the courts have tolerated that? Suppose he tried to “lay down the law” with the mother, regarding the girl's behaviour — would the courts have tolerated that?

Why is is assumed that everyone can pass the GED? If just anyone can get a GED — simply because they're told they have to — what does that say about the actual value of the GED? The GED is used as an entrance requirement for a lot of advanced training programs — what good is it, if it doesn't filter out people who can't learn these skills?

[khnyny]

Around 70% of all high school students in DC and Baltimore are dropouts. Let's just incarcerate all the parents. That will solve the problem./s

[MrBambaLaMamba]

As long as he's caucasian, no problem. if he's non-caucasion then this is clearly another blatant episode of genocide committed by the lily-white racist oppressors.

[hamboy]

WorldNutDaily? Is that typo or you really mean WND.Com articles are nutty?

[piytar]

Any lawyers out there? How does this pass Due Process muster? He is being put in jail for someone else’s actions over which he had/has no control. That CAN’T be legal, can it?

[Abby4116]

The original news story is here:

http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=28d2acca-9947-44cc-8831-9859f1f6137e

[calex59]

I said this on another thread with this same article and I will say it here. If anyone thinks the state actually has a constitutional right(not a "legal" right but a constitutional right)to tell you, or your kids, that they have to be in school, let alone actually force then to get a diploma or pass the GED, then you are not conservatives. The states started these school laws with the intention(always "good" intentions and unintended consequences)of allowing(not forcing)kids who wanted to go to school instead of bringing in the crops in the fall, to attend school even against their parents wishes. Lots of farmers, and to be honest others also, wouldn't let their kids go to school in the fall and spring.

Like all misguided but well intended laws that interfere with our freedoms these laws escalated out of control. We don't need the state to make it unlawful to attend school, we don't need the state to jail parents because their kids don't go to school.

What we need is for the state to stay the hell out of our lives, all parts of it, except for the bare minimum which I won't go into here, and let us, as parents, take care of our kids as we see fit.

Some of you will twist my words thinking that I mean we should be able to abuse our children(which I don't believe at all), mainly because you are not real conservatives and will use any argument to justify the fact you let the state control you and your children.

Get the government out of our lives, just as many children would graduate as do now, maybe more. They had high graduation rates in the past without all these crappy laws(and kids were better educated) and they would now if these laws were dropped.

[KevinDavis]

I think there is more to this story than what is being said imho..

[Continental Soldier]

Yet another judge who should be removed from the bench.