The judge could have found someone else
to sit in for the baby.
Posted on 10/20/2013 11:26:21 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
New mom faces ARREST because she took son she's breastfeeding to jury duty when there was no-one else to care for him.
A Missouri woman is to face court this week for bringing her new born child to the courthouse for jury duty because she was breastfeeding. Laura Trickle, of Lee’s Summit, delivered her daughter Axel in March and was breastfeeding when she was called for jury duty in August. She asked to be exempt from appearing, as she was breastfeeding, but received notice that she must report to court to fullfill her civic obligation and serve jury duty, according to the Kansas City Star.
Trickle was told to either arrange for child care or bring somebody with her who could care for the child during jury selection. On September 3, she appeared for jury duty with her child, but according to the ensuing court order, she ‘willfully and contemptuously appeared for jury service with her child and no one to care for the child’. Trickle will now face Jackson County Presiding Judge Marco Roldan on Thursday at a hearing at the Jackson County Courthouse downtown. Those who skip jury duty can be found in contempt of court and ordered to pay a fine of up to $500 and maybe even be arrested. The mother insists she is not a criminal, saying ‘I’ve never even had a speeding ticket’.
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One of my favorite shows!
And that's the kicker.
Oh. Come. ON.
I wonder if she has any relatives named Dick Trickle?
Where does the article say she’s a single mother?
You nailed it! The contention that a nursing mother should simply hand over her infant to ... just about anyone ... so as to attend court is just another development of anti-family Marxist philosophy.
To Marxists, parents aren’t important to their children. Just anyone can take the child, at a moment’s notice. All it needs is a bottle and a place out of the rain. The care of children, the sick, and the elderly isn’t valuable to society. Yes, it sort of has to be done - or at least, we can’t just abandon too many too obviously - but it needs to be kicked downhill to the fewest, least competent workers, so that the State can better allocate the labor of women who were stupid enough to reproduce.
Plenty of soi-disant conservatives have a worldview just as inhuman and atomistic as the most doctrinaire Marxist.
I agree whole-heartedly.....Attacking breast-feeding is just another attack on the traditional family.
This is pretty friggin stupid. They could get one person to stand in for her?
I just assumed.
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe not.
Equal chance of both these days.
Jury duty wasn’t bad until they want batshi’ite crazy over security and wouldn’t let me bring in a needle and a pair of scissors. Same with flying.
The judge could have found someone else
to sit in for the baby.
If he was a bird, maybe.
If a mother is adamant on how to feed her child that hardly makes her a fanatic. ....and as far as demonstrating at woman’s clinics....How do you know she’s a liberal ? She might be a home schooling Freeper for all you know.
There’s just so much wrong with this. A stay-at-home mother may not know anyone who can keep her child for a whole day, or come with her to court. Other women have jobs or their own children. Teenagers are at school. For many years, I either took all my children someplace, or I stayed home.
I even considered having a home birth because it was so hard to figure out what to do with the other children when I went to the hospital. (My husband went to the Knights of Columbus and said, “HELP!”)
A baby who is used to nursing may not take a bottle. Is she supposed to go 8 or 10 hours without eating, while in the care of a stranger? A nursing mother can’t just turn off milk production, and if she’s been at home with her baby, she may not have a breast pump or bottles. I didn’t with most of my children. I was given some bottles before my most recent baby was born, but never used them. (When Kathleen started using a cup, I gave the bottles to a crisis-pregnancy center.)
It would have been reasonable for Ms. Trickle (and then she named her *daughter* “Axel,” good gravy) to take care of her baby in the jury-pool room. A 5-month-old is very little trouble and would have given the rest of the jurors something fun to do.
(Sorry to rant at you ... I haz a tiny enraged over this!)
Fun?......in a jury?.....No, can't have none of that.
Common sense would dictate treating men an women differently, yet feminists have convinced women of the opposite. Thus, we get to this point.
Do you, perchance, live in a shoe? To anybody confused about the reference, please click Tax-chick's profile. She is a Saint.
Unless it throws up a lot, of course. I had some babies (numbers 3, 4, and 7) who spewed all the time.
Under normal conditions, though, a 5-month-old is wonderful. They smile and laugh and enjoy any kind of interaction with people. They don’t mind being held by different people. You can put them on a blanket on the floor and they just flop about, instead of dismantling the world. And then they fall asleep like perfect angels, for HOURS.
No, I live in a 15-passenger van ... which has returned from camp with only minor injuries, praise Ford.
When Sally was born, our regular babysitter who lived across the street had returned from Spring Break just a couple of hours before I had to leave for the hospital. I called her about 4 a.m., and she came over and went back to sleep on the couch. When Anoreth, Bill, Tom, and Elen woke up, she told them they had a sister. Then I was going to have Pat in my friend’s basement, but my doctor insisted I go to the hospital, and a good thing, too ...
Praise Ford?
You’re not from the brave new world are you?
My biggest fear is to be tried by 12 people who are not smart enough to get out of jury duty. < /sarc >
Actually, I served four times over a twenty year period; was selected for cases each go-round and got to be foreman twice. The last time was about fifteen years ago.
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