Weird legal stuff

by the_kid_cl
Man jailed when daughter fails to get diploma:
[Via The Seattle Times]

A man ordered by a judge to make sure his daughter hit the books has found himself in jail because she failed to earn a high school equivalency diploma.
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I’d like to hear more about this. The daughter is almost 19, has a fiance, an 18-month old child, lives with her mother, yet the father is the one going to jail for 6 months because the daughter did not get a GED. I thought that after 16, you could not be compelled to attend school. And how does a non-custoidial parent become responsible for an adult?

Lots of questions. Judges are not usually quite this stupid without some sort of legal reasoning. I wonder what the original charges were and why they were brought. There is really only one side of this story here. But it is a really weird side. Who gets 6 months in jail anyway? Just weird.

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