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A homeless woman from Bridgeport has been arrested for enrolling her 6-year-old son at a Norwalk elementary school.
Tonya McDowell, 33, is accused of stealing $15,000 — the cost of her son’s public education — from the Norwalk School District, according to the Stamford Advocate. She was arrested Thursday.
McDowell, whose last known address was Priscilla Street in Bridgeport, is facing first-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit larceny charges, the paper reported.
Police began an investigation in January, after the Norwalk Housing Authority filed a complaint that McDowell had registered her son at Brookside Elementary School in Norwalk, even though she had been living in an apartment in Bridgeport.
McDowell allegedly admitted to police she was allowed to sleep in the apartment on Priscilla Street in Bridgeport by the tenant, but had to leave during the day, according to the Advocate. She also told police she sometimes stayed at an emergency shelter in Norwalk.
Police say McDowell used the Norwalk address of the boy’s babysitter to register him at the school.
“Usually when they find a kid out of district, they send him back. I have never heard of people being arrested for it,” Norwalk Board of Education Chairman Jack Chiaramonte told the Advocate.
The apparent crackdown may have something to do with the city’s tightening budget.
“This now sends a message to other parents that may have been living in other towns and registering their kids with phony addresses,” Norwalk Mayor Richard Moccia said.
…… rage
I’m willing to bet money that she’s also not a white woman.
More evidence that being poor is increasingly looked on as a crime itself in the US. (Also, I would not take the other side of that bet.)
(Source: caraobrien)
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woman from Bridgeport has been arrested...6-year-old son at a Norwalk elementary school....
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of course this would be going on in the same school district i went to school in, why wouldn’t it be? just adding to the...
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what…the…hell…
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I can’t believe i only found out about this now. This legit broke my heart. Yeah, she doesn’t have an address, so she...
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amhoot reblogged this from loveyourchaos and added:
what humanity is coming to. we all are told to go to school, do well, go to college get a career and life will be set.....
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actyourrage reblogged this from supersoygrrrl and added:
So basically this is saying, “Yeah, a public education is for every child*!” *Except you and you and you and you and you...
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Education should NOT BE LOCALLY FUNDED. PERIOD. THIS WILL ALWAYS HAPPEN: RICH PEOPLE HATE POOR PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY...
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doubletaking reblogged this from feminismisforreal and added:
Just shows how our country is not investing in our young people and not allowing kids who want to go to school to...
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This is so ridiculous. Let’s not give this kid an education, oh and while we are at it, let’s sue this money for a...
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She’s not being prosecuted for trying to enroll her son, she’s being prosecuted for using an address that wasn’t her own...
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My stand on this: send this kid to a blue-ribbon private school for free, give the mother $15,000 dollars and then tell...
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smh. the whole system is screwed…
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Ridiculous logic. Sometimes the law is dumb as hell.
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everything about this is wrong.
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I want to know what precisely this woman is meant to do. She can’t not enrol her kid because that’s a crime. However,...
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