Texas honor student jailed for missing too much school

I kid you not.

Source: http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/18626605/texas-honors-student-jailed-for-excessive-truancy

Source: http://www.khou.com/news/local/Peop...nor-student-jailed-for-truancy-154235505.html

Do you still believe that they are educating you because they care about you?

 

Judge Myhass : "I didn' t want to let people wonder whether I' m a softy or not, so instead I chose to prove once and for all that I' m a complete dumbass."

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What about her parents ? Where the **** are they ? Aren' t there laws stating parents have to finance and raise their kids until they are ... 21 is it ?

 

Eighteen in the Unites States. Unless they changed it recently.

 

Oh thank god the judge saved us from the horrible honors student who has no time to themselves!

I've lost faith in humanity if this is acceptable.

 

New source:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ailed-truancy--Works-jobs-support-family.html

 

and another moron judge who wants to prove the size of his cock to a high school girl embarasses a nation.

people like him should not have the power that they do if all they care is their reputation. if people say he's going soft, then he shouldn't give two shits if he's passing the proper verdict. instead, this asshat decides to punish a girl for missing too much school due to extenuating circumstances. she cannot help her situation and he made it 100x worse.
it's kind of funny that he made her sit in jail for a whole day, because isn't that causing her to miss school then? it doesn't make sense. and also fining her 100 dollars is unfair because she is in a situation where she needs every penny she makes. the judge needs to be sued or whatever you do against judges who make pass ****** verdicts like that which ruin the lives of people like her.

 

I am pretty sure I have never heard of a judge getting fired, sued or arrested. The most you could do is take it to supreme court, which will waste even more time and cost even more money. He would not be penalized though because what he did was legal.

 

umm, let me see here, what's the best reaction for this......Fail?..nah, that's to simple....What the heck wrong with these simpletons?...nah, that's not strong enough...maybe just say they're crazy?...yeah, that works.


How does that judge think that sending a honor student, an HONOR student, H-O-N-O-R student, to jail will fix anything? In fact, what is there to fix? I think that this case calls for a new one: put the judge on court for sending a girl to work for missing classes. I don't see the sense in this. "if we let one go"...what? What the heck does that mean? There are people that skip classes on purpose, but she's not doing it on purpose. I really hope this doesn't mess up her life

 

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Thankfully this girl has been cleared of her charges.

 

Ah, that is good news.

It is important for people to remember that this did not happen through votes and reform, but through activism and public criticism.

The jury is nullifying cases, even after a sentence is passed. How will people handle this rediscovered power, and how will the state react?

 

This was just absurd. I'm glad that the charges were dropped but how a judge could be so ignorant (I should say idiotic, but he wasn't stupid enough to disregard the support that came in for her) in a court of law is beyond me. In any case, Diane is a very humble girl who has had to go through some difficult things, and I can only hope that things get better for her.

 

*sighs and debates whether or not to go into the minefield of politics* Nah...

I'm amazed by this story. I think this girl is amazing for what she's doing and deserves a great job from this where she doesn't have to work horrendous hours to make ends meet. Maybe a paid internship. That's what's going on at my work right now for a high school student at a law firm office. I wish I was amazed by the judge's actions, I really wish I was. But the thing is... This happens all the time all over the country. One woman a few years ago rescued a starving and abandoned dog who had spine issues and couldn't get up. It was the middle of winter in the Northeast where temperatures can drop to well below freezing every night and can dump a foot of snow in a day. She was arrested for stolen property and breaking and entering and told to turn the dog over, when she didn't, she got a fifteen thousand dollar fine and forced to 40 hours of community service with "human" people. The judge also called her sick for such work despite she was a government rescue organization for these types and wouldn't listen to any testimony for the woman on how bad the dog was.

These judges have too much power. It goes to their head and in cases like this, it can make them make poor decisions. I've heard case after case after case of this happening all over the country. Of women who can't get restraining orders for abusive husbands and end up murdered a few days later because the judge is sexist. Of children in juvie for three years because they did one small thing wrong because the judge gets more money from the system having them there. Of judges who believe animals and children are property and give them to whoever because it doesn't matter what happens to them.

And no, I won't go into a lot more cases where there's the other side of that. It's a very sensitive issue. Though Zimmerman before actually going to court is a prime example of the police system at work when he was about to become an officer and knew a lot of the force. There's examples of murderers, child molesters and thousands of other cases like that.

The court system has it's good points, but mainly it's bad points in a lot of cases where there's severe missteps and people walk away who shouldn't with a slap on the wrist. Or they are thrown in jail like this case because the judge wants to look good. It is heartbreaking to see and watch.

If I had the money, I would donate to her. I fully support her and wish the best of luck for her. The fact she's refusing this money shows a lot of courage and heart for this young girl. And I pray that her life gets better from all this. And I hope her parents will burn in hell for forcing such a young girl into such a horrible situation.

 

We haven' t even heard their side of the story. Burning in hell seems a tad overkill. Who' s the bad judge now ?

 

They left their kids, the oldest 17, on their own without even looking back. The reason the girl didn't mention it before is that most families in this situation end up in foster homes and being separated until they're 18. The foster system is screwed up, and she's desperately trying to keep the rest of her family together after suffering the trauma of losing their parents.

When you have a kid, it's a signed deal. You have to either give it up for adoption or raise it for 18 years. If you have more kids, you have to stay with them until they're eighteen. These parents didn't die, they didn't get massively ill, they just broke up and left these three kids alone. If it was for illness or death, I wouldn't be upset. Now a 17 year old is forced to be an adult and take care of her family while struggling through school and work supporting them. She could have said: "Yes, I'll take the money... I need it." No, she asked for it to be given to someone else who needs more help. She's being more adult than her parents are and is trying to do her best despite all the bad luck she's having.

Her parents never stepped in, even now, even when she was IN JAIL for missing school supporting THEIR kids and said: "We're going to help you." This is most likely all over the news, I'm sure the media is having a field day about these parents. They could step up any time and say: "We're sorry, we'll help you." But they're not, they're continuing with their lives and allowing this girl to take the punishment and stress for their actions.

 

However, that is a legal obligation, not an inherent one. There is no age limit for morality. Burning in hell is extremely severe, whether you mean literally burned or killed (and subsequently sent there). Neglect and inaction are not actions punishable by death or torture, nor should they be. From my perspective, the worst thing you could justifiably do to someone who neglected you is to neglect them in a time of need in turn.

Left to her own devices, the girl probably would have been alright. The ones who actually did harm were the police, school system and judge.

 

That' s weird, when I try to get information about her parents all the sources that happen to mention more than a blurry "her parents divorced and fled" mention that her father is still very much part of the picture and does give money to his children.

http://aldenbenton.wordpress.com/tag/diane-tran/

I also found some interesting counter-points to the initial sad story that was mindlessly copypasted to the letter all over the web :

http://www.allamericanblogger.com/21781/the-rest-of-the-diane-tran-story/

http://meandmy1000girlfriends.com/2...e-tran-is-guilty-stop-making-excuses-for-her/

Believe it or not I' m kicking myself in the butt right now for picking a side as soon as the news emerged. I should have known better than to swallow this kind of thing at face value. Oh well, let this be a reminder that I should always keep a healthy dose of skepticism.