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i do have empathy for the father - he now had no way to contact his daughter. He gave her the phone for christmas, i'm sure expecting to be able to be in contact with her, and her mother took it away.
I highly doubt he couldn’t reach her. Dads were able to reach their kids long before kids had cell phones.
No kidding...if he couldn't reach her how did he know the mother had the phone?
I have little doubt that BOTH parents past behavior contributed to this escalating to the point of police involvement.
My guess is also that the daughter does alot of leveraging the parents against each other in order to get her way...highly doubt she is a completely innocent third party considering her age and the fact that teen girls can act outrageously self centered and demanding even within a stable family unit. That being said in no way excuses the fathers behavior though.
I don't get it, honestly. He owns a contractor business, apparently he's the sole employee, paints houses and that kind of thing.
I was expecting him to be a DA or a police chief.
How in the world this happened is shocking. I couldn't find the warrant for her arrest where you could see what he claimed happened in this case that got her arrested and got a trial started.
I don't get it, honestly. He owns a contractor business, apparently he's the sole employee, paints houses and that kind of thing.
I was expecting him to be a DA or a police chief.
How in the world this happened is shocking. I couldn't find the warrant for her arrest where you could see what he claimed happened in this case that got her arrested and got a trial started.
Would you mind sharing? Just because he owns a contractor business doesn't mean he doesn't have connections in the legal or law enforcement world.
This ex-husband is extremely vindictive. I bet the mom dumped him and he's still butt hurt about it. She still has to worry that he will continue to try and retaliate against her. He'll find something else.
The phone belonged to the daughter because it had been a gift to her. It wasn't the ex-husband's cell phone and kind of ridiculous for the police to believe that. I saw the photo of the cell phone and it was covered in stickers, obviously it belonged to an adolescent.
Yeah, shows lack of discretion on behalf of the arresting officer but it makes more sense.
Hopefully they do go after the father for filing a false police report. Shouldn't be any major time, community service and a fine should suffice. Don't use the police to go after your ex for no reason.
Well, when you read the article, it becomes a little clearer.
Exactly.
The alarmist headline makes it sound - because that's what it says - like the mother was arrested for the act of discipline her child through withholding the device. Yet the article makes clear that this is not so. The mother was arrested for the theft of a device from a third-party, her ex-husband. It was the ex- who claimed that his device had been stolen. Now, the facts were clarified and the charges were properly dropped.
It certainly sounds as though the arresting officer(s) behaved inappropriately. However, the insinuation in the headlines here is that there is some sort of movement to legally prohibit disciplining children by withholding an item such as a cell phone, and that is 100% false.
But neither the article nor this thread would get as much attention if not for the misleading hype, so there you go...
However, the daughter could. And Mom could be found guilty.
If the daughter is a minor, she can't claim her mom "stole" her phone. I take stuff away from my kids all the time. If the police were called every time a parent took a toy or item away from their child, this would be a huge burden on the taxpayers to fund punishing all this "crime".
Last edited by PriscillaVanilla; 09-23-2018 at 02:02 PM..
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