The Connecticut woman has been charged with larceny and conspiracy to commit larceny for allegedly stealing $15,686 from Norwalk Public Schools for enrolling her son in an elementary school even though she didn’t have a permanent address in the city. If convicted, she could face up to 20 years in prison.
Tanya McDowell, 33, was arraigned in Norwalk, where she was arrested April 14 on felony charges of committing and attempting to commit first-degree larceny. She was released after posting a $25,000 bond.
Prosecutors say McDowell used her baby sitter’s address to enroll her son in Norwalk schools in the fall but should have registered the boy in nearby Bridgeport, a significantly poorer urban district and the location of her last permanent address.
McDowell told police she was living in her van and sleeping at a Norwalk shelter, or staying at a friend’s Bridgeport apartment when she enrolled her son in Norwalk last September.
I find it interesting that this law-abiding mother, who simply wanted a better life for her son, finds herself forced to go through life with a arrest over her head, having the nightmare of trying to do the right thing for your children makes you wonder!
Education Should Be A Right, Not a Crime did you know that if you Start typing "mother arrested" into Google, and the Internet wastes no time filling in the rest: "for lying about her address." Not "for selling her daughters on Craigslist," "for feeding her sons drywall" or "for locking her kids in the basement like Boo Radley," but for trying to educate them beyond the borders of their block. In the United States of America, educating your children by any means necessary is a punishable offense.
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