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woebedamned
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Mon May 12, 2008 9:51 am |
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Report: Ohio Man Serves Jail Time for Daughter's Failure to
Report: Ohio Man Serves Jail Time for Daughter's Failure to Get GED
An Ohio man is getting a lesson of a lifetime when he was jailed because his daughter failed her General Equivalency Diploma (GED).
Brian Gegner is serving 180 days for contributing to the delinquency of a minor by not following a court order requiring Gegner stay on top of his daughter's education, WCPO TV reports.
To add insult to injury, his daughter, Brittany is now an adult.
The problems began when Gegner's daughter Brittany regularly skipped high school classes 2 years ago, the channel reported.
Gegner had custody of his daughter at the time and was in charge of her education.
Brittany, who is now 18, admitted that she would skip school while she stayed with her mother. She has since taken the GED exam and passed all but the math portion, which she has failed several times.
Brittany told WCPO that her father shouldn't be punished for her problems. Now Judge David Niehaus is giving her a chance to make the grade. If she passes the test, her father may be released before his sentence is up, it is reported.
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| woebedamned
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A Fairfield man is in jail because his daughter hasn't gotten her General Equivalency Diploma (GED).
A judge ordered the father to stay on top of his daughter's education months ago and when that order wasn't followed, Brian Gegner was sentenced to 180-days in the Butler County jail.
The daughter, Brittany Gegner, says her father shouldn't be punished for her problems.
Especially, she says because she's now 18, an adult.
"It's ridiculously wrong," said Brittany Gegner.
"Of all the punishments they could have given him, to make him go to jail?," she asked. "I mean, probation – until I get my GED – would be reasonable, but to send him to jail? That's overboard."
Butler County Juvenile Court Judge David Niehaus ordered Gegner to jail for contributing to the delinquency of a minor by not following a court order which required Gegner to be sure his daughter got her GED.
This comes after ongoing problems of Brittany skipping classes at Fairfield High School and then, Butler Tech.
While Brian Gegner had custody of her, Brittany says it was while she lived with her mother that she was truant.
"I'm about to be 19 and my Dad's being punished for something I did when I was 16," she said.
"It's like I should, if anybody should be punished for this," said Brittany. "I would way rather me go to jail than my Dad."
"They probably should have punished me if they were going to punish anybody," said Brittany's mother Shana Roach. "Because she did live with me at the time, but because he had the custody, that's why he's being punished."
"But I don't understand the punishment all together because she's going to school, she's been going for four months," said Roach. "The only thing that's holding her back is she can't pass her math test."
Brittany has a daughter who's about 18-months-old.
She says she's determined to pass the GED for her daughter – and her father.
The judge says if she passes the test, her father could get out of jail before his six-months sentence is up.
Brittany's step-mother worries the time in jail will ruin their family.
She says he could lose the job he's worked for 15-years.
"I never dreamed they would put him in jail for this – for six months – it's crazy," said Stephanie Gegner, Brittany's step-mother.
"He has no control over what his adult daughter does," she said. "He just doesn't."
Court administrators say that even though Brittany is an adult now, the case remains active in their court because she was a juvenile when the problems started.
They say this type of punishment is rare and reserved for extreme cases when court orders aren't met.
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| Myra Manes
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Wed May 14, 2008 10:16 pm |
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 Holy shit......Ohio doesn't fuck around....
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| woebedamned
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Thu May 15, 2008 10:08 am |
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| Myra Manes wrote: | | Holy shit......Ohio doesn't fuck around.... |
We have had 3 parents jailed here because their kid skipped school.
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| Katie
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Thu May 15, 2008 8:23 pm |
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Thats just BS 
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| woebedamned
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Fri May 16, 2008 3:32 pm |
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Father jailed over daughter's truancy to be freed
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HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — A judge says he will release a man who was jailed last week for failing to make sure his daughter earned her high school equivalency diploma.
Butler County Juvenile Court Judge David Niehaus's decision Friday would let Brian Gegner out of jail if his 18-year-old daughter Brittany attends a GED preparatory class and schedules the test before the next court date.
Gegner received a 180-day sentence for contributing to the unruliness or delinquency of a minor.
He had been ordered months ago to make sure his daughter, who has a history of truancy, received her GED — something that hasn't happened yet. His daughter has said it's not fair that her father was punished for her behavior
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I have to say, I really dont understand the rulings on this case. The daughter is now 18...a legal adult. How can the court force her father to force her to get a GED? What if she simply refuses?
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