Hope that helps clarify your question.
What's pathetic is that the father cried like a blubbering two year old in court.
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Hope that helps clarify your question.
What's pathetic is that the father cried like a blubbering two year old in court.
The latter is something that will easily be gotten around, so the fact that he's doing jail time (she just has to check in) will be the major bother for a few months.
Showing basic human emotion isn't "pathetic."
What's "pathetic" is that the guy is so smug with his head so far-up his ass that I didn't buy it as anything more than a show to try and gain sympathy from the court of a lighter sentence.
So he's going to serve a few days (couple weeks?) in jail and then go on work release, and also have the CS to do, is the wife going to actualy spend her time in jail or is she going on work-release too? Or did she only spend the time in jail "on paper" and won't go in at all?
Pretty much on paper, for her.
The only real argument anyone can advance for "punishment" in this case is restitution - this stunt cost taxpayers some money; the couple should be responsible for that. Celebrating jail time handed down is, first and most of all, celebrating additional incurred cost to the taxpayers. The only reason for considering it a victory is spite - when people start muttering about "deterrence" in cases like this (in fact, in most cases) they're just admitting that they've got nuthin' but an emotional attachment to the case.
The only real argument anyone can advance for "punishment" in this case is restitution - this stunt cost taxpayers some money; the couple should be responsible for that. Celebrating jail time handed down is, first and most of all, celebrating additional incurred cost to the taxpayers. The only reason for considering it a victory is spite - when people start muttering about "deterrence" in cases like this (in fact, in most cases) they're just admitting that they've got nuthin' but an emotional attachment to the case.
That makes absolutely no sense.
The sentence in this case damn well is a deterrent. Anyone who might consider emulating the Heenes would only have to look at this case to see what a bad idea it is.
Turns out you can't pull a massive hoax, piss tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars down the drain, and leverage it into a TV career.
He was cocksure and wanting to bask in the limelight. His crocodile tears are pathetic. Anyway, here is the sentencing results:
Balloon boy's parents get jail time
With any effort of searching, people can find that the Judge didn't want both parents in jail at the same time.
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