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We need advice a friend of mine having issues daughter running away skipping school. Is there any help for her she has called cops and tried everything is there any homes to help this girl so that she don't fall more away. We are so concered for this family and want to know if anyone had this problem what did you do.
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Tks I will relay to family. Also I don't think this child is on the street but at friends house it seems to me more of a issue with wanting to get away with peers. Is there somewhere you can have put the child if they continue to run away and show disciple issues. Tks I will let the family know.
at 17, they are almost legal adults. they dont have to stay at home, BUT, if they want too, YOU MUST TAKE THEM IN. at 17, they can pretty much stay out all night and do w/e they want, with or without your consent and yet you still must let them in your home, even if its 4am.
this is in texas. the laws may differ in your state.
at 17, they are almost legal adults. they dont have to stay at home, BUT, if they want too, YOU MUST TAKE THEM IN. at 17, they can pretty much stay out all night and do w/e they want, with or without your consent and yet you still must let them in your home, even if its 4am.
this is in texas. the laws may differ in your state.
"Almost" isn't good enough, they are not adults, and they are required to stay at home unless a court as determined otherwise.
What you are confused about is a runaway versus a missing person. In Texas, parents or guardians can report a child missing as a runaway if they are 16 or younger. They may also report them as a missing person if they are 17. This gives the police the right to find them and return them to their parents or guardians. However, for the police to get involved someone first has to make a report that they have run away or gone missing.
And while San Antonio's nighttime curfew law applies to persons who are 16 years of age or under who are prevented from being out in public without a parent or legal guardian with them from the hours of 11 pm to 6 am; it's not the same thing as a runaway who as long as they are under 18 years of age, are 1) still a considered a child under the Texas Family Code...
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§101.003. CHILD OR MINOR; ADULT. (a) "Child" or "minor" means a person under 18 years of age who is not and has not been married or who has not had the disabilities of minority removed for general purposes.
(b) In the context of child support, "child" includes a person over 18 years of age for whom a person may be obligated to pay child support.
(c) "Adult" means a person who is not a child.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, § 1, eff. April 20, 1995.
And, 2) as defined under the Texas Penal Code, if a child under 18 does not get permission from a parent or legal guardian to stay with someone else, any adult who lets them stay with them (including a relative) could be criminally charged with kidnapping, interference with child custody, and/or harboring a runaway. Although a grandparent or adult brother or sister might not be prosecuted for taking in a runaway, the police can arrest them first and ask questions later...
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§25.06. HARBORING RUNAWAY CHILD. (a) A person commits an offense if he knowingly harbors a child and he is criminally negligent about whether the child:
(1) is younger than 18 years; and
(2) has escaped from the custody of a peace officer, a probation officer, the Texas Youth Council, or a detention facility for children, or is voluntarily absent from the child's home without the consent of the child's parent or guardian for a substantial length of time or without the intent to return.
(b) It is a defense to prosecution under this section that the actor was related to the child within the second degree by consanguinity or affinity, as determined under Chapter 573, Government Code.
(c) It is a defense to prosecution under this section that the actor notified:
(1) the person or agency from which the child escaped or a law enforcement agency of the presence of the child within 24 hours after discovering that the child had escaped from custody; or
(2) a law enforcement agency or a person at the child's home of the presence of the child within 24 hours after discovering that the child was voluntarily absent from home without the consent of the child's parent or guardian.
(d) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
(e) On the receipt of a report from a peace officer, probation officer, the Texas Youth Council, a foster home, or a
detention facility for children that a child has escaped its custody or upon receipt of a report from a parent, guardian,
conservator, or legal custodian that a child is missing, a law enforcement agency shall immediately enter a record of the child into the National Crime Information Center.
Added by Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 1155, ch. 558, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1979. Amended by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 4750, ch. 831, p. 4750, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1983; Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 561, § 40, eff. Aug. 26, 1991. Renumbered from § 25.07 by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, § 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, § 5.95(27), eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
So while it is not an offense to be a runaway, it is to harbor one; and the police can and will find runaways and missing persons under 18 and return them to their parents or guardians.
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