From TYWKIWDBI:
Diane Tran, an honor student in Texas, was thrown in jail by a Judge Moriarty (!) after she missed too many classes at her high school.
Tran said she works both full-time and part-time jobs, in addition to taking advanced and college level courses. But the judge said Tran’s case was bigger than the individual situation of one student. “If you let one run loose, what are you gonna’ do with the rest of ‘em?,” said Judge Lanny Moriarty. “Let them go too? A little stay in the jail for one night is not a death sentence.”
But Tran’s classmates said she had a lot more to juggle than the average teen. “She goes from job to job from school. She stays up until 7 a.m. in the morning doing her homework,” said Devin Hill, a classmate and co-worker.
On top of that, Tran said her parents spilt up and moved away, leaving her to support her younger sister. The judge admitted that he wanted to make an example of the teen. Tran had to spend 24 hours in jail and had to pay a $100 fine.
Text from CBSAtlanta.com staff; photo via TNT Magazine, where it is noted that “under Texan law any student skipping classes for more than 10 days in a six month period faces jail time and a fine,” but…
News of Diane’s plight has spread online, with a petition at change.org and a helpdianetran.com.
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It’s the judge who should be made an example of.
Someone should start a “Lanny Moriarty is unfit to sit in the bench” meme.