[mamelukesabre]

THe daughter is a loser and so is the mom. Now that the daughter is in deep deep hot water, the mom is trying to distance herself from her own daughter by abandoning her in jail. How low can you get? How do you even take sides in this? They're both trash. Throw them both in jail....and the boyfriend too.

[friendly]

Nah, mom's OK.

[piasa]

Mom didn't "abandon her in jail." The kid earned her own way into jail and mom is doing the sensible thing- letting her daughter serve her time. Now if mom helps get her an attorney or asks the judge for leniency, then mom's as big a fool as if she had paid for bail, but here's hoping her little girl gets a non-nonsense judge, and gets to face a familial justice without Dad saving her bacon afterwards.

Don't be the type to rescue cats when they climp up into trees- just leave them there and they will find their way back down eventually. After all, when's the last time you saw a cat die of starvation in a tree? The same goes for kids who earn their way into jail. If kids know you'd let them stay in jail they would be careful not to ever end up there.

[honeygrl]

"THe daughter is a loser and so is the mom. Now that the daughter is in deep deep hot water, the mom is trying to distance herself from her own daughter by abandoning her in jail. How low can you get? How do you even take sides in this? They're both trash. Throw them both in jail....and the boyfriend too."

You think she should bail her out of the situation she created on her own? The mom is smart enough to see that the girl deserves her punishment.

[EveningStar]

THe daughter is a loser and so is the mom. Now that the daughter is in deep deep hot water, the mom is trying to distance herself from her own daughter by abandoning her in jail. How low can you get? How do you even take sides in this? They're both trash. Throw them both in jail....and the boyfriend too.

The mother did the right thing. The kid and her boyfriend are whacko.

From an L. A. Times article:

In tones that varied from bitterness to anguish, the mother said she had rejected suggestions that the family arrange bail. She said she could not "risk the rest of my family's life because of a brat" by posting bail, even if a judge would grant it.

"She's going to run ... and we're going to be left with a $25,000 debt," said the mother, 49, a nurse. "I'm not a millionaire.... She promises not to do it again — but yeah, right."

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While [her boyfriend] was in jail, he called Ferguson collect daily, running up a $1,500 phone bill for the Fergusons, the father said.

[Brad’s Gramma]

I take it you don't have kids.