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May 13th, 2008, 12:04 PM
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...0513?hub=World
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...0513?hub=World
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Everyday that goes by I get a little more sick of our societies and governments/courts. Even the mother and the daughter in question believe this is unjust.
CINCINNATI -- A man ordered by a judge to make sure his daughter hit the books has found himself in jail because she failed to earn a high school equivalency diploma.
Brian Gegner, of Fairfield, was sentenced last week to 180 days in jail for contributing to the unruliness or delinquency of a minor.
He was ordered months ago to make sure his 18-year-old daughter Brittany Gegner, who has a history of truancy, received her GED -- something that hasn't happened yet.
Brittany Gegner, who said Monday that she plans to take a required GED test this month, said her father shouldn't be blamed for her failure because she has been living with her mother.
"It was my wrongdoing, not his," said Brittany Gegner, whose fiance and 18-month-old daughter also live at her mother's home in nearby Hamilton. "He shouldn't have to go to jail for something I did."
Her mother agrees.
"Brittany is almost 19 years old now and I think it's unfair to put her father in jail," said Shana Roach. "She's an adult now, and it's not right to rip an innocent man from his home."
Butler County Juvenile Court administrator Rob Clevenger Jr. said Monday that the court still has jurisdiction in the case because Brittany Gegner was a juvenile when the truancy problems began and when the charge against Brian Gegner was filed in 2007.
A hearing on a motion filed by Brian Gegner's attorney to reconsider the sentence is scheduled for Friday. Messages seeking comment were not returned Monday at the offices of defense attorney Tamara Sack and the Butler County prosecutor.
Brian Gegner's wife, Stephanie Gegner, said she and her husband are afraid he will lose his job if he remains in jail. She said they tried to keep his daughter in school.
"You'd take her to school and she'd go out the other door," Stephanie Gegner said.
Brian Gegner, of Fairfield, was sentenced last week to 180 days in jail for contributing to the unruliness or delinquency of a minor.
He was ordered months ago to make sure his 18-year-old daughter Brittany Gegner, who has a history of truancy, received her GED -- something that hasn't happened yet.
Brittany Gegner, who said Monday that she plans to take a required GED test this month, said her father shouldn't be blamed for her failure because she has been living with her mother.
"It was my wrongdoing, not his," said Brittany Gegner, whose fiance and 18-month-old daughter also live at her mother's home in nearby Hamilton. "He shouldn't have to go to jail for something I did."
Her mother agrees.
"Brittany is almost 19 years old now and I think it's unfair to put her father in jail," said Shana Roach. "She's an adult now, and it's not right to rip an innocent man from his home."
Butler County Juvenile Court administrator Rob Clevenger Jr. said Monday that the court still has jurisdiction in the case because Brittany Gegner was a juvenile when the truancy problems began and when the charge against Brian Gegner was filed in 2007.
A hearing on a motion filed by Brian Gegner's attorney to reconsider the sentence is scheduled for Friday. Messages seeking comment were not returned Monday at the offices of defense attorney Tamara Sack and the Butler County prosecutor.
Brian Gegner's wife, Stephanie Gegner, said she and her husband are afraid he will lose his job if he remains in jail. She said they tried to keep his daughter in school.
"You'd take her to school and she'd go out the other door," Stephanie Gegner said.
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May 13th, 2008, 12:11 PM
That's messed up, a parent can only be so responsible for a child.
They should put the family on Springer or Maury, that will straighthen em up.
That's messed up, a parent can only be so responsible for a child.
They should put the family on Springer or Maury, that will straighthen em up.
Jerk Extraordinaire
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May 13th, 2008, 12:17 PM
Maybe the school should be charged for not having proper hall monitors or security in their school for keeping her there in the first place. Was the father supposed to walk her by the hand into school and sit by her the entire time to make sure she didn't skip?
Sounds more like the school's responsibility to know where their students are during school hours, then it is the parents' fault..... even though that's a long stretch, it's not as far as the above.... frig.... that's just mental.
Maybe the school should be charged for not having proper hall monitors or security in their school for keeping her there in the first place. Was the father supposed to walk her by the hand into school and sit by her the entire time to make sure she didn't skip?
Sounds more like the school's responsibility to know where their students are during school hours, then it is the parents' fault..... even though that's a long stretch, it's not as far as the above.... frig.... that's just mental.
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May 13th, 2008, 03:04 PM
A little more each and every day the US becomes the place we were fighting against in WWII.
A little more each and every day the US becomes the place we were fighting against in WWII.
Super Genius
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May 13th, 2008, 03:44 PM
"Our prisons are filled with criminals which our virtuous State has made what they are by its iniquitous laws, its grinding monopolies, and the horrible social conditions that result from them. We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them." - Tucker
"[The State]...meddles in all our affairs, pinions us from cradle to grave. It prescribes all our actions, it piles up mountains of laws and ordinances that bewilder the shrewdest lawyer. It creates an army of office-holders who sit like spiders in their webs and have never seen the world except through the dingy panes of their office-window. The immense and ever-increasing sums that the State collects from the people are never sufficient: it lives at the expense of future generations, and steers with all its might toward bankruptcy." - Kropotkin
"Precisely like any despot, the body of representatives of the people - be it called Parliament, Convention, or anything else; be it appointed by the prefects of a Bonaparte or elected with all conceivable freedom by an insurgent city - will always try to enlarge its competence, and to displace the activity of the individual and the group by the law." - Kropotkin
"The State seeks to hinder every free activity by its censorship, its over-sight, its police, and counts this hindrance as its duty, because it is in truth a duty of self-preservation." - Stirner
"What they are not competent to tear from me the power over, that remains my property: all right, then let power decide about property, and I will expect everything from my power! Alien power, power that I leave to another, makes me a slave; then let own power make me an owner." - Stirner
"Therefore the only point is that the respectful 'lower classes' should at length learn to take to themselves what they want." - Stirner
"Our prisons are filled with criminals which our virtuous State has made what they are by its iniquitous laws, its grinding monopolies, and the horrible social conditions that result from them. We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them." - Tucker
"[The State]...meddles in all our affairs, pinions us from cradle to grave. It prescribes all our actions, it piles up mountains of laws and ordinances that bewilder the shrewdest lawyer. It creates an army of office-holders who sit like spiders in their webs and have never seen the world except through the dingy panes of their office-window. The immense and ever-increasing sums that the State collects from the people are never sufficient: it lives at the expense of future generations, and steers with all its might toward bankruptcy." - Kropotkin
"Precisely like any despot, the body of representatives of the people - be it called Parliament, Convention, or anything else; be it appointed by the prefects of a Bonaparte or elected with all conceivable freedom by an insurgent city - will always try to enlarge its competence, and to displace the activity of the individual and the group by the law." - Kropotkin
"The State seeks to hinder every free activity by its censorship, its over-sight, its police, and counts this hindrance as its duty, because it is in truth a duty of self-preservation." - Stirner
"What they are not competent to tear from me the power over, that remains my property: all right, then let power decide about property, and I will expect everything from my power! Alien power, power that I leave to another, makes me a slave; then let own power make me an owner." - Stirner
"Therefore the only point is that the respectful 'lower classes' should at length learn to take to themselves what they want." - Stirner
