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Apparently she sent him to the "wrong" school, which was the school she thought would give her child the best education. She had no home so there wasn't an address she could say the child lived at. But instead of accepting a child with a parent motivated to give their child an education her homelessness was criminalized and she was found guilty of stealing a free education.
I'm sure her melanin composition had nothing to do with it. /snark
A mother who pleaded guilty to fraudulently enrolling her six-year-old son in the wrong school district has been sentenced to five years in prison.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/04/1252945/-Five-years-in-prison-for-homeless-mom-that-sent-her-child-to-school
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)lame54
(35,325 posts)Turbineguy
(37,370 posts)society could pay rent, pay for all other expenses for both of them. When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)The state should have just dropped the "larceny" charge, then...
B Calm
(28,762 posts)which will be included in her prison sentence.
I think the war on drugs is the reason for her long jail sentence.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)I think the larceny charge is what put her in jail. She should have got 5 years suspended on the drug charge.
dotymed
(5,610 posts)Larceny means theft. In this case it is the "theft" of a "free education", which is guaranteed to all.
Do you have the link about the drug sells?
It's kind of like when the serfs dared to hunt in "the kings forest."
1) So what that she sent her son where he might get a better education...
2) Even IF (I still have not seen the link) she did sell drugs to help support herself and her son, so what? The CIA sells tons of them to support their EVIL agenda.
What about the poppy (opium) fields that our troops die protecting in Afghanistan? Who do you think the (probably) heroin is for?
America is a failed experiment. It was doomed for failure. Just for the wealthy, it got worse. Only FDR made a difference, just like Bernie Sanders can, he IS the FDR of our time.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)The 34-year-old, who was homeless when she was charged with felony larceny last year, said she wanted the best education possible for the boy.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2108733/Homeless-mother-Tanya-McDowell-sent-son-6-better-school-wrong-town-jailed-years.html
The Wizard
(12,549 posts)why the harsh sentence?
Recursion
(56,582 posts)And it's not broken down into how much is for what "crime".
whopis01
(3,523 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)She's being sentenced for both the larceny charge and 4 counts of narcotics sales.
Now, if Recursion were king, these would be two things that would not be illegal (assuming she was selling the drugs to adults), but in this world, they both are. I was mostly surprised that they went ahead with the larceny charge when they had enough for her to nolo on the drugs charge.
The CIA sells tons of them to support their EVIL agenda.
You should email Sy Hersh; he's been looking for a smoking gun on that for years.
questionseverything
(9,660 posts)more recently
http://rt.com/op-edge/mi6-cia-tax-money-drugs-941/
There is also a significant overlap between the corrupt political establishment and the illegal drug trade, up to and including the president's late brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai. So, another unintentional consequence may be that some of this unaccountable ghost money is propping up the drug trade.
Afghanistan is the world's leading producer of heroin, and the UN reports that poppy growth has increased dramatically. Indeed, the UN estimates that acreage under poppy growth in Afghanistan has tripled over the last 7 years. The value of the drug trade to the Afghan warlords is now estimated to be in the region of $700 million per year. You can buy a lot of Kalashnikovs with that.
On the one hand, we have Western governments bankrupting themselves to fight the 'war on terror,' breaking international laws and murdering millions of innocent people across North Africa, the Middle East and central Asia, while at the same time shredding what remains of our hard-won civil liberties at home.
On the other hand, we apparently have MI6 and the CIA secretly bankrolling the very people in Afghanistan who produce 90 percent of the world's heroin. And then, of course, more scarce resources can be spent on fighting the failed 'war on drugs,' and yet another pretext is used to shred our civil liberties.
This is a lucrative economic model for the burgeoning military-security complex. However, it is a lose-lose scenario for the rest of us.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)So they had to make a point.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)I'm saying they had enough for her to plead no contest on that, so I don't see why they went ahead with the larceny charge.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)Had they dropped either the larceny charge or the drug charge, she'd be free. It's an either or proposition, imo. I think the drug charge is as bad as the larceny charge. But if they dropped any one of them, I think she'd be free.
So basically, the schools are worse, imo, because it was an innocent crime. The drug charge of course should be thrown out as well because the war on drugs is shit. But should we see schooling as ... equal to drugs?
To me the school charge should've been dropped. And she should be free.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)She was selling drugs during her son's birthday party....and she wasn't homeless when she did that....
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Affidavit-Tanya-McDowell-offered-to-sell-drugs-1421618.php
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)This is DU's first reaction to her arrest: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x918882
This is DU's reaction to another black mother who had a similar thing happen: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x269707
Good old redlining.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)The the hell!!!!
This is not the country I grew up in. I don't even recognize it any more.
MADem
(135,425 posts)problem. If the child who lived in Highcrimeville got the exact same quality of education, down to books, teachers, facilities, opportunities for enrichment, etc., that the little darlings in Stinkingrichmoneytown got, no one would feel a need to take risks, play games, etc.
That said, I don't understand how a woman who is "homeless" is in the "wrong" district for school services. You can be homeless anywhere, fachrissake.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)No more fucking "redlining."
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)to pimp girls to an undercover cop...
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Affidavit-Tanya-McDowell-offered-to-sell-drugs-1421618.php
This is a non-tabloid source.....
MADem
(135,425 posts)If the education in Fancytown is the same quality as the education in Shitsville, there would be no motivation for parents to try to game the system and slide their kid into a "better" school.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)with reasonable adjustments for heavily populated areas.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)Is there no reason in sentencing anymore? (rhetorical question...)
Recursion
(56,582 posts)It's already infamously true that narcotics sales can get you a longer jail term than manslaughter.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)She spent 2 years in jail. Without the larceny charge of 5 years she should've got 5 years suspended.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)The judge didn't say which part of that sentence was for what.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)7 for drugs, 5 for larceny, 2 in jail, 5 suspended.
Not trying to be an ass. Maybe she would've got 3 more years. Still. She got shafted. Neither the drug or larceny charges are legit.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Unless she was selling to a 12 year old or something.
I'm just pushing back against the idea that the five years is "for sending her daughter to school" rather than "for selling drugs and sending her daughter to school".
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)Neither which is defensible, imo.
After the drug charge the other charge should've been dropped, imo.
allGoodThings
(31 posts)They were two separate cases and she was sentenced separately.
She received a 5 year sentence for the school larceny. Then in the drug case she received a 12 year sentence (2 served, 5 to be served, 5 on probation).
I think that the sentences are concurrent - but not sure about that.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)The wording on the article implies it was 12 total for both the drug and larceny charges, 5 years served, 5 on probation, 2 served.
If you believe that the 12 year sentence has nothing to do with the school issue then she's getting 10 years total.
allGoodThings
(31 posts)So it is 5 for the drugs and 5 for the larceny - but served together.
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LWolf
(46,179 posts)and it happens to some every year, we go out of our way to keep them with us no matter where they are sleeping. To the point of other parents taking in the kids for the school year while the homeless parent deals with getting life back on track, to staff setting up car pools to drive to the shelter in the next town, and back, every day to provide transportation.
And melanin has nothing to do with it.
Doremus
(7,261 posts)Business as usual for Upsidedown Land.
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allGoodThings
(31 posts)gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)Moms sending their kids to school accused of larceny, elderly abandoned in closed-down nursing homes, any public place a potential shooting gallery, endless wars -- I wonder if, even if we were to break out the torches and pitchforks today, it is too late.
juajen
(8,515 posts)Too many Republicans ran for local spots on school boards, etc., and took over the schools and the curriculum. Also, got into local offices in every county and/or parish. When this happens, it doesn't matter who's Governor or who's running state government, and local Clerks of Court control the voting process.
Our school board was taken over, and before you could even find out what was going on, they were taking steps to turn schools into charter schools, etc. The teachers are told to teach to the tests and forget education in general. No sign of critical thinking or the relevance of history, math a d science. After all, if it's not in the bible, it just didn't happen. No dinosaurs in the bible, ergo, no dinosaurs.
So many people now are educated by Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. They know no facts, and are belligerent if you question their sources. It's mind control, simply put. Also, with the advent of computers, smart phones and kindles, etc., most homes don't even have books any more, and some had few to begin with.
Education is being destroyed by, some degree, by modern technology. Though it is great to have facts at our fingertip, most people don't realize that Wikipedia is easily manipulated, and, just because it's on the net, "don't make it so."
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Freddie Stubbs
(29,853 posts)There was a school which she should have sent her child to. But she chose to lie and send her children elsewhere, essentially stealing from a community where she did not live. The fact that she was a drug dealer does not make her a very sympathetic figure.
JCMach1
(27,574 posts)that's unreal...
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)0 for Wall Street, 0 for spying on Americans, etc.
We got it loud and clear: laws don't apply to the elites, only to us.