Diane Tran, a 17-year-old Texas honours student who works full-time at a dry cleaners and part-time at a wedding venue to support her siblings after her parents divorced and moved away, had to spend a night in jail because a crotchety old judge wanted to make an example of her for missing class. You can’t just have kids running amok, and besides, he says “a little stay in the jail for one night is not a death sentence.”
Tran spent a night in jail and paid a $100 fine. Because if there’s anything she has to spare it’s time and money.
Yep, there’s nothing like a little jail time to make you regret cutting class. Why the hell was this in court anyway? Does her school not have a freakin’ principal? And what kind of parents just move away and leave the fate of the family in the hands of a high school student?!
via:CBS Atlanta via @Courosa
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