Setting the record straight

In a recent blog post, Mischler makes some very, very interesting comments. Here is one worth clarifying (the emphasis is ours):

I am being charged with felony custodial interference for returning my children to their father a few hours late. The Judge refused to dismiss the case, or drop it down to misdeamor like the statute says to.

The truth of the matter is this: In the incident in question (unless there are others of which we are unaware), the children were returned to the father (the legal custodial parent) nearly twenty four hours late. That's considerably more than a "few," wouldn't you agree?

Let's put this in context. Imagine going to pick your own kids up at school one day, only to find out they weren't there.

You call everybody you know, but nobody knows where they are. Nobody even goes through the trouble of making a phone call to let you know where they are. They're just gone.

Gone.

Would you then clarify that as a "few hours?" We think not.

The children were returned, this is true. But by all accounts, they were returned to the father by strangers whom the children had only met that weekend. Further, they were dirty and hungry.

At the root of all this, however, is another example of Mischler dodging all personal responsibility. If she had a problem returning the children, she could have made a phone call to alert the father where they were.

Friends, we have to ask you, is that too much to ask?