"MCP"  wrote in message
news:Q1%Od.61733$B8.36739{at}fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005062825,00.html
>
> A MUM has been convicted of child abuse - for forcing her 12-year-old boy to
> rob a bank.
>
> Tamara Rivers admitted making son Rashard hand a cashier a note saying:
> "Give me $30,000 or I will shoot you!"
>
> The New York bank worker handed him the money. But Rashard was traced after
> she admitted being in on the plot.
>
> Police told the court the lad's life would have been at risk if armed
> officers had arrived before he fled.
>
> Rivers, 35, from Harlem, was jailed for four months.
>
> The boy now lives with his gran.

Presumambly because "dad" si nowhere to be found.

And the single-motherhood band just kept on playin' . . . .




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