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Meanwhile, she was forced to resign from the pediatric sleep consulting business where she worked, for the same reason: child endangerment charges. There went half the family's income. She found work at a cookie store instead.
To comply with the program, Wallace also had to take a parenting class and eight random drug tests. Ironically, that meant she sometimes had to leave the kids by themselves for an hour.
"We couldn't afford a babysitter," she says.
Amazing.
She also hopes to hire a lawyer to get her record expunged so that she can work with kids again.
But in her pretrial essay, which required her to admit guilt and remorse, Wallace thanked the officers for teaching her how wrong she was to have her son walk half a mile on a warm day in his own neighborhood. From now on, Wallace wrote, "I will continue to grow more as a parent and a person."
Kafka laughed.
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Ugh … why would the prosecutor continue to prosecute even after Child Protective Services dropped the case? One would think CPS is the agency with the expertise in a case like this.
Ugh … why would the prosecutor continue to prosecute even after Child Protective Services dropped the case? One would think CPS is the agency with the expertise in a case like this.
Well, according to an attorney friend of mine, the best prosecutors have a Nazi streak in them.
