Arrested for Defending His Daughter?

[Ghostwriter]

I see a counter suit against the school on the horizon. They do have a responsibility to protect children in their custody.

It is not allowed for adults other than drivers and school personnel to get on school buses in NC so, if this is the case in the State where he was living, the school had no choice but to have him arrested for trespassing, etc.

Perhaps the better alternative would have been to address this situation with the parents of the kids who were bullying the child. If the parents could not or would not control their kids he could escalate it from there with the police.

BTW - what are 7 year old kids doing with condoms?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Ghostwriter

I see a counter suit against the school on the horizon.

There's no suit in which to file a counter suit. You can't counter sue in a criminal action, which is what's going on here.

I can readily understand the dad's frustration, but he did not handle it well. At all.

As for how the school handled it and whether they handled it well or not or took his complaints seriously, we have no information other than his claim that they didn't. His claim that they didn't doesn't mean that they actually didn't. If the practice of law has taught me anything, it's that in cases like this there are at least two sides to every story and the truth is typically somewhere in the middle of those stories.

I've never seen "Kelly's Court" before, but from this clip it looks as bad as Nancy Grace. I truly hate this kind of show.

[Psi U MC Vito]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

I've never seen "Kelly's Court" before, but from this clip it looks as bad as Nancy Grace. I truly hate this kind of show.

I always wondered. Are those shows actually legit courts with real legal power or no?

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by Psi U MC Vito

I always wondered. Are those shows actually legit courts with real legal power or no?

I was curious about that myself a few years ago, and I think I remember reading that it's arbitration and that the participants sign agreements stating that they'll follow the rulings.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by Psi U MC Vito

I always wondered. Are those shows actually legit courts with real legal power or no?

Kelly's Court is just a news talking head show focused on legal issues I think. Judge Judy, et al are more what k_s is talking about.

[Ghostwriter]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

There's no suit in which to file a counter suit. You can't counter sue in a criminal action, which is what's going on here.

I should have said that I believe the Dad will now sue the school and/or school system for failing to protect his daughter while in their care.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Ghostwriter

I should have said that I believe the Dad will now sue the school and/or school system for failing to protect his daughter while in their care.

Maybe, or maybe not. I have no idea whether such a lawsuit could be filed in Florida or the likelihood of succeeding.

What I do know is that we have next to no real information about all of this this; just the dad's self-serving statement, repeated over and over by the reporter as though it is most certainly true, that the school did nothing in response to his complaints. The school may have a very different story about what was done in response to his complaints (or about what he actually told them).

[Drolefille]

Defending someone does not equal threatening other people. Dad was not protecting his daughter, he was threatening other children.

File a lawsuit, keep your kid home from school, call the police. Do not commit criminal acts.