What The Actual Fuck???

[ZiprHead]

Michigan judge denies release of teenage girl who was jailed after not doing homework

A 15-year-old Black girl who has been incarcerated in Michigan since mid-May after she failed to do her online schoolwork won't be returning home, a judge decided Monday, in a case that has stoked outrage that it is emblematic of systemic racism and the criminalization of Black children.

Oakland County Judge Mary Ellen Brennan determined that the girl has been benefiting from a residential treatment program at a juvenile detention center, but is not yet ready to be with her mother. Brennan, the presiding judge of the court's Family Division, scheduled another hearing for September, NBC affiliate WDIV reported.

The girl, who is being identified only by her middle name, Grace, was the subject of a report published last week by ProPublica Illinois, with politicians and community activists expressing outrage over her incarceration.

During a three-hour proceeding, Brennan told Grace that it was in her best interest to stay in the program after all of the progress she had been making.

 

[atrib]

Michigan judge denies release of teenage girl who was jailed after not doing homework

A 15-year-old Black girl who has been incarcerated in Michigan since mid-May after she failed to do her online schoolwork won't be returning home, a judge decided Monday, in a case that has stoked outrage that it is emblematic of systemic racism and the criminalization of Black children.

Oakland County Judge Mary Ellen Brennan determined that the girl has been benefiting from a residential treatment program at a juvenile detention center, but is not yet ready to be with her mother. Brennan, the presiding judge of the court's Family Division, scheduled another hearing for September, NBC affiliate WDIV reported.

The girl, who is being identified only by her middle name, Grace, was the subject of a report published last week by ProPublica Illinois, with politicians and community activists expressing outrage over her incarceration.

During a three-hour proceeding, Brennan told Grace that it was in her best interest to stay in the program after all of the progress she had been making.

The girl had been sentenced to probation following a criminal conviction for assault and theft. She violated the conditions of her probation (by not doing her homework diligently), following which she was placed in a residential treatment program. The judge refused to grant her early release from the program because she apparently still posed a threat to her mother, whom she had assaulted in the past.

At Monday's hearing, Brennan stressed that police had responded to incidents between the mother and the daughter three times, and that Grace's detainment came out of violating probation related to charges of assault and theft from last year, ProPublica reported.

"She was not detained because she didn't turn her homework in," Brennan said. "She was detained because I found her to be a threat of harm to her mother based on everything I knew."

 

[thebeave]

Phew! So, whitey's off the hook?

 

[ZiprHead]

Sounds like she is in greater need of counseling than being locked up in juvy. And maybe the mother too.

Edited to add: I was sitting on my front porch the other day and a kid on a bike is pulling a lawnmower with his mother walking behind. She was raising a constant bitchfest the entire block long. Nothing the kid could do or ever do was right. By the time she had past, I wanted to throttle the shit out of her myself. If this girl has a mother like that, it's no wonder she's messed up.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Sounds like she is in greater need of counseling than being locked up in juvy. And maybe the mother too.

Edited to add: I was sitting on my front porch the other day and a kid on a bike is pulling a lawnmower with his mother walking behind. She was raising a constant bitchfest the entire block long. Nothing the kid could do or ever do was right. By the time she had past, I wanted to throttle the shit out of her myself. If this girl has a mother like that, it's no wonder she's messed up.

It seems to me that the judge is keeping her locked up so she will get that counseling.

 

[atrib]

Sounds like she is in greater need of counseling than being locked up in juvy.

Which is why the judge ordered the girl to remain in the treatment program where she would continue to receive counseling.

 

[Gospel]

Phew! So, whitey's off the hook?

Maybe. The theft was getting caught stealing another students cell phone & the assault was allegedly on her own mother which was most likely during a heated argument. But I guess theft is the worst of possible thefts and assaults are the worst of possible assaults when you're a black kid right? Nah I'm just kidding. Whitey's off the hook bro.