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In reply to the discussion: Kaitlyn Hunt's mother under attack by bloggers who say 'Free Kate' is all lies [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)if it had been a man, they may well have gone to the police right off the bat.
The law is the law. The parents had asked the older one to leave the kid alone, she was too young. Not only did the older one refuse to do what the parents said, she went and got the kid out of her room in the middle of the night, which caused the parents a great deal of worry, when they discovered their daughter missing from her room. It was only then that they went to the police.
The charges seem warranted to me. The parents are in charge of what a minor does and does not do. When the parents ask an older person to quit have a relationship with the daughter, the older person has no choice but to agree to the demand. It's no one else's decision but the parents, and it's no one else's business, even if others don't agree (as long as the child's civil rights are not invaded). The parents are in charge of the minor. Not so hard to understand. The older one should confess to her crime and do her time, and save everyone a lot of time and worry and the taxpayers a lot of money. There would be no charges, if the older one had obeyed the parents' wishes.