July 23, 2014
By Crimesider Staff
PHOENIX - Prosecutors (click here) and a Phoenix woman reached a deal that would allow her to avoid prosecution for leaving her two young sons alone in a hot car while she was at a job interview.
By Crimesider Staff
PHOENIX - Prosecutors (click here) and a Phoenix woman reached a deal that would allow her to avoid prosecution for leaving her two young sons alone in a hot car while she was at a job interview.
Shanesha Taylor, who faced being tried on two felony child abuse charges, said gratitude was the only thing she felt after the agreement was reached Friday.
"I'm grateful for the offer that was extended to me and the opportunity to resolve this situation as well as to show my intentions," said Taylor, who shed a few tears while standing outside the courthouse.
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery said his office and the 35-year-old mother of three have an agreement under which he'll dismiss the charges against her if she meets several conditions.
Those include completing parenting and substance abuse treatment programs and establishing education and child care trust funds for her children....
A family may stay together WITH SUPPORT now so they can resume a life of hope. That is a victory of the criminal justice system.
Ms. Taylor is less the exception than the rule in many instances. Homelessness creates a torrid of problems for families. Being poorly paid can be the definition of homeless more often than anyone wants to admit. The working poor don't necessarily mean they have a home. At least she had a car.
Are there questions as to why Early Childhood Pre-K is needed in the USA? A safe learning environment where parents have peace of mind while working and/or seeking work. Is there any doubt where "Head Start" fell into the American landscape so well? I would think not.
The USA needs to see the lives of all the people within it's borders and address all the needs to move families forward to a benevolent home environments where achievement can take place.
When the USA government cuts benefits for food stamps and Medicaid or ignores those in need of support, we all suffer. Ms. Taylor's circumstances don't usually turn out this well. She could have easily been put in jail and the children into foster care only to have them lose track of their mother and she her children. The USA is then 'on the hook' for prisoner costs and foster care costs and no one's PROBLEMS have been resolved. As a matter of fact, when families are shattered by 'the system' the USA creates it's own problems.
Prevention is an interesting word no one in Washington seems to understand. Providing for programs that give parents breathing room to work or seek work or look for housing with low income as their burden, the children are uplifted to where they are safe and learning. It brings children out of the shadows under the guise of others providing a learning and healthy environment. When professionals such as teachers realize the difficult circumstances of a child(ren) there is usually empathy to seek to end the stress in that child's life, hence the stress within a family's life.
Supporting the poor and lower middle class in ways that are meaningful protects children.
This is the crime of corporate welfare. It is time it is ended for everyone in the country.
A family may stay together WITH SUPPORT now so they can resume a life of hope. That is a victory of the criminal justice system.
Ms. Taylor is less the exception than the rule in many instances. Homelessness creates a torrid of problems for families. Being poorly paid can be the definition of homeless more often than anyone wants to admit. The working poor don't necessarily mean they have a home. At least she had a car.
Are there questions as to why Early Childhood Pre-K is needed in the USA? A safe learning environment where parents have peace of mind while working and/or seeking work. Is there any doubt where "Head Start" fell into the American landscape so well? I would think not.
The USA needs to see the lives of all the people within it's borders and address all the needs to move families forward to a benevolent home environments where achievement can take place.
When the USA government cuts benefits for food stamps and Medicaid or ignores those in need of support, we all suffer. Ms. Taylor's circumstances don't usually turn out this well. She could have easily been put in jail and the children into foster care only to have them lose track of their mother and she her children. The USA is then 'on the hook' for prisoner costs and foster care costs and no one's PROBLEMS have been resolved. As a matter of fact, when families are shattered by 'the system' the USA creates it's own problems.
Prevention is an interesting word no one in Washington seems to understand. Providing for programs that give parents breathing room to work or seek work or look for housing with low income as their burden, the children are uplifted to where they are safe and learning. It brings children out of the shadows under the guise of others providing a learning and healthy environment. When professionals such as teachers realize the difficult circumstances of a child(ren) there is usually empathy to seek to end the stress in that child's life, hence the stress within a family's life.
Supporting the poor and lower middle class in ways that are meaningful protects children.
This is the crime of corporate welfare. It is time it is ended for everyone in the country.
