Justice gone dumb

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Group raises more than $70G for Texas honor student jailed for truancy

A Louisiana group has raised more than $70,000 for a 17-year-old Texas honor student jailed for missing too much school because she worked two jobs to support her siblings.

Diane Tran, an 11th-grade honor student at Willis High School near Houston, was sent to jail for 24 hours last week by Judge Lanny Moriarty and ordered to pay a $100 fine for excessive truancy.

It's unclear how many days Tran missed, but state law reportedly permits only 10 absences in a six-month period.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/3...ed-for-truancy/?test=latestnews#ixzz1wNr4Q91z

seriously, this is an injustice.

 

[Damocles]

That sounds like that honor student that was expelled for bringing her mother's lunch which had a knife in it. She turned it in, and they expelled her because of "zero tolerance" policies...

You have to be crippled in your mind to apply the law this way. Which DA decided to charge her? Somebody needs to show him common sense with a hammer.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

this is all on the judge. his excuse for the sentence was 'if we make an exception for her, we have to start making exceptions for everyone'. or something to that effect.