Mother Arrested After Children Miss School
The mother of four children, two of them school-age, was arrested on a warrant issued because her children missed school or were late more than half of the current school year, officials said Thursday.
The Humboldt County District Attorney's Office said Meghan Rachel Fleming, 27, of Eureka, was arrested Wednesday by district attorney investigators and Eureka police officers at her California Street home.
The four children were placed in protective custody with county Child Welfare workers.
”This school year isn't the start of the problem for this family,” said District Attorney Investigator Wayne Cox. “Last year's records were very similar to this years.”
The children who were in school are 11 and 5 years old.
Cox said the 11-year-old missed 13 whole days out of the 42 days of school this year, and was more than a half-hour late on another 14 days.
The 5-year-old missed 16 days and was more than a half-hour late on another 12 days.
When authorities served the warrant they discovered living conditions that may produce more charges from the DA's office.
So far this year, according to Cox, the DA's office has files charges against 10 parents related to their school attendance.
”But this is an extreme case,” Cox said.
Usually when charges are filed, the parents address the problem before the need for a warrant.
”Fleming had failed to respond to letters seeking her cooperation and court attendance and so a warrant for her arrest was sought,” a District Attorney's Office press release said.
If convicted of the charges the warrant was written on, she's facing up to a year in the county jail.
Source: Chris Durant, Eureka [California] Times-Standard, October 26, 2007
A story in the other local paper, the Eureka Reporter, adds the demonizing effect of a mugshot photo of the mother. Not exactly the time when one is looking their best...
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New crime: Don't respond to a letter, go to jail and face criminal charges.
Have the school check with the kids when they *are* there about what's going on? Too much work. Send a school counselor out to the home? Fugettaboutit. Besides, the CPS Storm Troopers have to get their jollies by asserting their unchecked power to destroy families on a whim.
Now the kids will be put in several strangers' homes, homes provided all-too-often by people who do foster care so they have enough money to make ends meet--or for luxuries. Quality foster care homes, while commendable, are rare, especially in HerrGoobernator's Kalifornia where things are done on the cheap and children are nothing more than human garbage.
Not to mention the fact that the kids are likely to fare worse in foster care. A recent study by Dr. Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., found that biological parents who were deemed abusive by the state did a better job of raising children than the state did through foster care.
Then there's the problem of children being dumbed-down by No Standardized Test Left Behind, and turned into pharmaceutical zombies if they misbehave.
And this is the same DA's office that won't lift a finger when it comes to rampant police brutality resulting in numerous deaths.
Blow away a 16-year-old kid with 3 bullets at close range and nothing happens--no charges whatsoever are brought--but if your kid skips school it's off to the slammer!
More screwed-up foster kids = more target practice for the local "law enforcement"?
TLC
The Humboldt County District Attorney's Office said Meghan Rachel Fleming, 27, of Eureka, was arrested Wednesday by district attorney investigators and Eureka police officers at her California Street home.
The four children were placed in protective custody with county Child Welfare workers.
”This school year isn't the start of the problem for this family,” said District Attorney Investigator Wayne Cox. “Last year's records were very similar to this years.”
The children who were in school are 11 and 5 years old.
Cox said the 11-year-old missed 13 whole days out of the 42 days of school this year, and was more than a half-hour late on another 14 days.
The 5-year-old missed 16 days and was more than a half-hour late on another 12 days.
When authorities served the warrant they discovered living conditions that may produce more charges from the DA's office.
So far this year, according to Cox, the DA's office has files charges against 10 parents related to their school attendance.
”But this is an extreme case,” Cox said.
Usually when charges are filed, the parents address the problem before the need for a warrant.
”Fleming had failed to respond to letters seeking her cooperation and court attendance and so a warrant for her arrest was sought,” a District Attorney's Office press release said.
If convicted of the charges the warrant was written on, she's facing up to a year in the county jail.
Source: Chris Durant, Eureka [California] Times-Standard, October 26, 2007
A story in the other local paper, the Eureka Reporter, adds the demonizing effect of a mugshot photo of the mother. Not exactly the time when one is looking their best...
_____________________________________
New crime: Don't respond to a letter, go to jail and face criminal charges.
Have the school check with the kids when they *are* there about what's going on? Too much work. Send a school counselor out to the home? Fugettaboutit. Besides, the CPS Storm Troopers have to get their jollies by asserting their unchecked power to destroy families on a whim.
Now the kids will be put in several strangers' homes, homes provided all-too-often by people who do foster care so they have enough money to make ends meet--or for luxuries. Quality foster care homes, while commendable, are rare, especially in HerrGoobernator's Kalifornia where things are done on the cheap and children are nothing more than human garbage.
Not to mention the fact that the kids are likely to fare worse in foster care. A recent study by Dr. Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., found that biological parents who were deemed abusive by the state did a better job of raising children than the state did through foster care.
Then there's the problem of children being dumbed-down by No Standardized Test Left Behind, and turned into pharmaceutical zombies if they misbehave.
And this is the same DA's office that won't lift a finger when it comes to rampant police brutality resulting in numerous deaths.
Blow away a 16-year-old kid with 3 bullets at close range and nothing happens--no charges whatsoever are brought--but if your kid skips school it's off to the slammer!
More screwed-up foster kids = more target practice for the local "law enforcement"?
TLC
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