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Would you rat out your kids?
Maybe you wouldn't lie or concoct a story like this couple did, but would you plead the fifth if your child committed a crime or would you tell all? Would it depend on their age? Curious...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/...html?tag=stack
"A Lake Charles couple will spend years behind bars for lying to police about their teenage son's involvement in a drive-by shooting that killed a 14-year-old girl in 2009.
On Monday, Judge Clayton Davis sentenced Nina Lambert Newton, 44, to 10 years in prison for obstructing justice and being an accessory after the fact to first-degree murder of Alexus Rankins, The American Press reported.
...Prosecutor Cynthia Killingsworth said both parents conspired to make up a story and lied to police...."
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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