Phoenix mom misses deadline for kids' trust fund

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14. UPDATE: The Deal Is Off, The Trial Is On

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Phoenix New Times.com: Jerry Cobb, Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery's spokesman, sent us this statement: "Due to the defendant's failure to comply with the terms of the deferred prosecution agreement, the State has moved to reinstate prosecution."

...Taylor got her kids back from the state, bought new furniture and allowed the kids' baby daddy to move in, a guy who Taylor told the New York Times had not contributed regularly over the years to the financial needs of the children...

Taylor was supposed to put $10,000 for each child in an education trust. Prosecutors later negotiated to have Taylor put another $30,000 in a separate trust fund to help with childcare expenses. But on October 13, state prosecutors filed a motion in county Superior Court expressing concern that Taylor no longer had $60,000 of the donated money to fund the trusts...

...(T)hat still leaves the question of what she did with the contributions. While Taylor hasn't landed a job since her arrest and has been living off the donated money, if she indeed no longer has at least $60,000, that means she may have spent more than $54,000 in a little over six months. Maybe she used the money to pay off a reported $30,000 in outstanding student loans...

Why didn't the court have her sign the money over to them when they negotiated the deal? They could easily have helped her with working out a payment plan for the student loans, getting child support from the baby daddy, AND working out a budget she could live on. And I guess her story about the money being in her mother's account turned out not to be true. Unfortunately, making the wrong choice seems to be her specialty.


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