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Originally Posted by Phil@rise
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Yeah I guess she's the only 16 year old girl with no friends or family to go to while dad chills down.
I'm a father of a 16 year old girl I know the game and have no sympathy for stupidity or lazyness. This may just be another case of law enforcement or government steppin in where they are not needed.
I also highly doubt a transit driver would refuse entry to a broke, scared, lost kid. They would give her directions and a pass to get home.
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Ghetto Asian parents raising ghetto Asian kids. Textbook. Quote:
A Lower Gwynedd father who authorities accused of abandoning his teenage daughter in Cheltenham, allegedly because of a failing grade, faces several years of court supervision.
Tuan Huynh, 47, of the 1100 block of Walnut Farm Road, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court Tuesday to two years’ probation and 100 hours of community service after he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of endangering the welfare of a child under 18 in connection with the Feb. 22 incident.
With the charges, authorities alleged Huynh abandoned the 16-year-old girl at Cheltenham Avenue and Washington Lane, near the Cheltenham Square Mall, after she received a bad grade in a calculus course.
“Throw her out instead of getting her a tutor. What kind of choice is that for a parent to make?” said Assistant District Attorney Cara McMenamin, who prosecuted Huynh. “It’s unconscionable and outrageous.”
McMenamin described the teenager as a “soft-spoken, extremely serious young girl” who has aspirations of being a classical pianist. The girl feared she would never see her family again, McMenamin said.
“She was devastated. She wandered quite a ways looking for help. Fortunately, she encountered a minister who stayed with her and called police,” McMenamin said.
Judge Garrett D. Page, who accepted a plea agreement in the case, also ordered Huynh, who was represented by defense lawyer David S. Dessen, to complete parenting classes “prior to moving back into residence,” according to court papers.
After his arrest, as a bail condition, Huynh had been prohibited from living in the family’s home.
Another charge of recklessly endangering another person was dismissed against Huynh as part of the plea agreement.
An investigation began about 3:35 p.m. Feb. 22 when Cheltenham police responded to the intersection of Cheltenham Avenue and Washington Lane after receiving reports that a child was asking strangers for a place to stay, according to the arrest affidavit.
When police arrived at the intersection, they encountered the teenage girl who initially gave police a false name and who possessed a backpack that contained a blanket and a change of clothes. The girl was eventually identified through music books she was carrying that contained her name, court papers indicate.
When asked by police about why she initially did not tell police her real name, the girl told police that she was told “by them not to tell the police who you are,” according to the arrest affidavit.
“She further stated that she was no longer home because she was not meeting her parent’s expectations, and that there had been many arguments over her failing grades,” Cheltenham Township Police Officer Mark Gindhart wrote in the arrest affidavit.
Prosecutors alleged that after an argument about the girl’s grades Feb. 22, she was told she had one hour to pack and that she couldn’t live with the family anymore.
“After she had packed, her father had her get into his car with her backpack and a small satchel type bag,” Gindhart alleged.
Huynh then drove the girl to Cheltenham from Lower Gwynedd, a distance of 13.6 miles, “where he ordered her to get out of the car and drove off leaving her to fend for her own well-being with no provision for shelter or food.”
Authorities alleged the girl did not have a cellphone to call for help and had no family in the area to go to for help.
“She didn’t know where she was. She had never been to the area before,” McMenamin alleged. “She was terrified. She’s lucky somebody didn’t grab her and abduct her.”
Lower Gwynedd man admits to endangering teenage daughter - Ambler Gazette - Montgomery News
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