Posted on 12/28/2012 2:00:21 PM PST by SMGFan
A 21-year-old theatre student has obtained a civil stalking restraining order against her parents after convincing a judge that they attempt to control all aspects of her daily life.
Aubrey Ireland is a gifted theatre major at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, often winning major roles in her school's musicals. Her latest win wasn't at her prestigious music conservatory, but in court after she filed a civil stalking order against her parents. Earlier this month, Common Pleas Court Judge Jody Luebbers ruled in her favor, ordering that her parents must stay at least 500 feet from their only child until September 2013.
"They basically thought that they were paying for my college tuition and living expenses that they could tell me what to do who to hang out with ... basically control all of my daily life," Ireland told ABC News.
The dean's list student's complaints against her parents began when she realized they'd installed monitoring software on her computer and her phone. They paid unannounced visits, traveling 600 miles from their home in Kansas, to meet with Aubrey's department head.
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They did, and she did (the school gave her a scholarship for her last year).
If I hadn't figured our daughter was mature enough to take care of herself I wouldn't have paid for her to go to college.
We're from a very rural area and she went to NYC for college.
She was homeschooled until jr. high.
She's always been very mature, even as a young kid.
You could parachute her in anywhere in the world and she'd just find it interesting and go about surviving.
We had telephone contact whenever she or we got to it, varying from weekly to monthly or so.
Helicopter parents have no idea how destructive they are.
Sorry to butt in. I believe obamacare REQUIRES parents to carry their children on the health insurance until age 26. That’s what I read at least. Not sure of all the particulars. OC depresses the heck outta me ;)
The restraining order is an unconstitutional, bs..law and it is a disgrace that it is on the books. In the old days , people had courage and guns to defend themselves and that often kept the crazies at bay. Now, you can go to a judge, provide nothing but here say, and get an order that will be served by the Sheriff that will be temp. until a hearing , but that will demand you turn in all of your firearms or sell them! Honest truth and happened to me by a looney “rev” Jesse Lee Peterson.
Agree but the pose makes me wonder if this whole thing isn’t a big setup and a way to get a portfolio and enough fame to jumpstart a career.
Could have been one of those "last straw" events after it had been building up over time.
Maybe she found out about one final thing they had done that drove her over the edge.
“Same as with Lanza’s parents, hers were trying to get her mental help and she lashed out at them.”
Totally out of line comparison.
“She couldn’t have bought her own cell phone without gps instead of staying on daddy’s account? She couldn’t unplug the computer her parents gave her and bought her own “stalker software free” computer?”
You know that there are wiretapping laws, and that what the parents did is most likely illegal, right?
Paranoid crackpots. I see they are from Kansas...home of the Westboro Baptist Church...hmmm...coincidence?
That's a 'could' and a 'maybe' against my realistic option.
Besides as I said above, she knew what kind of people her folks were. who would have known better? I find it difficult that she found out about any of this at the last second.
LOL! Yeah, I noticed she was happy to take their money.
I’m no Obamacare expert, but I had thought the obligation was simply for insurance companies to offer the option for parents to cover their kids thrugh age 26.
I gotta go with ya on that one. Tho one has to wonder why the court didn't comment on that and the daughter didn't add that to her list of charges.
Curiouser and Curiouser
I did a search for titles with obamacare children here on FR and the only thing that came up quick is someone "in HR" saying BC&BS are telling everyone that it's a MUST lol and I'm too tired to search any deeper atm. :)
“SEC. 2714 [42 U.S.C. 300gg–14]. EXTENSION OF DEPENDENT COVERAGE.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—A group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage that provides dependent coverage of children shall continue to make such coverage available for an adult child until the child turns 26 years of age. Nothing in this section shall require a health plan or a health insurance issuer described in the preceding sentence to make coverage available for a child of a child receiving dependent coverage. [As revised by section 2301(b) of HCERA]
‘‘(b) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary shall promulgate regulations to define the dependents to which coverage shall be made available under subsection (a).
‘‘(c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section shall be construed to modify the definition of ‘dependent’ as used in the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to the tax treatment of the cost of coverage.”
It seems to me that the insurance plans are required to offer you dependent coverage, but I see nothing that says you are required to opt for that coverage.
I agree. I stand corrected. TYVM :)
I think the person on that thread was talking from the perspective of the business owner, since they work in HR. So, yes, it is illegal for the business to not offer coverage to the child, even if they are married, have a job, or have their own policy. I don’t think it’s illegal for the policy holder (the parent) to remove the child from their own policy, or opt not to take advantage of the dependent coverage in the first place.
No problemo.
“Or maybe Miss Drama Major pulled this as a publicity stunt to pad her slim portfolio.”
She’ll get herself labeled as “difficult.” That doesn’t go over very well with directors.
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