6-month sentence for woman who put kids in trunk
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) - A woman who was caught speeding on Interstate 405 with three children in the trunk was sentenced Wednesday in Everett to six months in jail.
The Daily Herald reports the judge also told Anna Boyle she could not see or contact her children for four years.
The children - ages 5, 7 and 8 - were placed with relatives after her arrest last September.
The 28-year-old pleaded guilty last month to drug possession and unlawful imprisonment.
The Daily Herald reports the judge also told Anna Boyle she could not see or contact her children for four years.
The children - ages 5, 7 and 8 - were placed with relatives after her arrest last September.
The 28-year-old pleaded guilty last month to drug possession and unlawful imprisonment.
What's so magical about 4 yrs. Give the kids a break and just take them away. I notice daddy dear did not get them.
They placed the children with relatives? Really?!?! Where do they think she learned this type of behavior?? Get the children away from that family!
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I'm really surprised that she wasn't charged with reckless endangerment......speeding on 405, what a horrific accident that could have been.
Why did she put her kids in the trunk? I mean seriously, what is wrong with this idiot? As if being kids of a druggie isn't bad enough, this lunatic stuffs her kids in a confined space with limited air. Instead of giving her a cell, why don't we make her a steel box, with no holes, to sleep in.
 @Koreanman012 The Everett newspaper says the druggie momma used the back seat for storing snowboard equipment and guitar. The cop also found heroin, meth and marijuana along with drug paraphernalia. The family dog was also in the trunk.
I'm curious as to why so many commenters are sure the family won't be happy to keep the kids away from her.
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MANY grandparents have the pain of watching their grandkids grow up with a drug using mom and dad, yet DSHS isn't able to catch the bad actions. I've known several GP's that would do nearly anything to get the kids away from the parents in order to raise them themselves, even though they've already reaised their own family. Some have paid for drug rehab over and over again trying to get the druggie parents help.
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I've no way of knowing if this woman has family like this or if she has 'enabling' family, but I'm wondering if other commenters DO know?
Hopefully the relatives abide by the ruling and not let her access her children as soon as she gets out of jail.
 @Tattooed_Angel Much better solution would've been for the judge to order supervised visitation. Why punish the kids? They're not going to understand.
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The way I see it this unnamed judge made a bad situation worse with this bonehead ruling. I don't know the details, but keeping kids away from their parents is a bad thing thing by default unless there's clear signs of abuse.
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And as far as I know there aren't any here. Sticking the kids in the trunk does not constitute abuse, but is a case of extremely poor judgment and the mom is suffering the consequences of that.
Can't compare that to mothers starving or torturing their kids.
@DrugFighter @Tattooed_Angel I'm with Tattooed_Angel on this one. How can you think that kids are safe in that type of environment with a woman who makes those kinds of choices? Leaving the kids with that woman is more of a punishment than trying to give them a stable home. I've worked with the children of parents like this, not pretty. They live in fear every single day of what mama is going to do to them next.
@DrugFighter That's why you should do a little research. KOMO is notorious for their lack of details.
 @commonsense  @DrugFighter  @Tattooed_Angel We're all commenting here based on our own assumptions. I'm giving the mom the benefit of the doubt. If she actually WAS o drugs, it changes the picture completely. And if she was doing 80 instead of 63 (both are speeding under the law), then it makes it even worse. But none of us know a while lot for a fact, based on this short article.
@DrugFighter Are you freaking SERIOUS?! Sticking children in the trunk of the car while SPEEDING down the freeway while ON DRUGS constitutes as abuse in my eyes!!! She endangered their lives and I can't even IMAGINE the fear those children must have experienced. That "mother" is lucky that she wasn't in an accident (THANKFULLY) because I don't even want to think of what would have happened to those kids if there had been an accident.
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You don't know what those children had to go through and what other sort of abuse those children had to endure. The best thing that could have happened to those children was being taken away from their "mother." Some people just aren't cut out to be parents... just like this POS "mother". Honestly, WHO PUTS THEIR KIDS IN THE TRUNK OF THEIR CAR?!?!
@DrugFighter This article states that the mother was doing 77 in a 60. And the backseat was taken up by a guitar and snowboard. Troopers decided to search the vehicle because of a heavy odor of "freshly smoked marijuana."
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http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20120924/NEWS01/709249854
@DrugFighter Not my own assumptions. I tend to read up on articles from other news sources in instances of stories like this one.
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http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/144058/shocked_cops_find_moms_3
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According to this article, cops stated the mother reeked of pot. Cops found methamphetamine, heroin, pills, and drug paraphernalia in the car AND the kids hadn't had anything to eat since the night before.
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Mother of the Year right there.
 @Tattooed_Angel  @DrugFighter None of us here know the exact circumstances, the news "article" is woefully short on details.However, nowhere in the article does it state she was ON drugs. If she was, then yes, it's more than just bad decision making. Way more. But, again, there are no real details in the article so all us here are commenting based on our own assumptions and extrapolations.
Did she need the room in the front seat for her drugs or what?
 @cm257n7 If I remember right, it was for her boyfriend and there was not enough room for the kids and a dog.Â
Why not save the time and money and let the punishment fit the crime? throw her in the trunk of a car and drive around speeding on 405
That's more time than one would get if they knowing left a firearm in a vehicle and one child shot another one to death. Go figure.....
So glad that the kids were place with relatives. That is going to help the kids so much, in knowing that family members love them and can help them understand why their mom did what she did. It really has to be hard to take  someones kids that were raised in a way that should not have been raised and teach them all over again. My hats off to you relatives, may you find a way to keep these kids happy and strong, where their is no repeat in behavior.Â
6 months???? Are you effin kidding me???? That is all she got???? That is beyond ridiculous!
Oh crap! Your not suppose to put kids in the trunk?? Be right back..... ;-)
um so let me get this if I'm caught breaking and entering I could get four years but endangering my children 6 months. Â Well hell she's only hurting the kids who will probably learn from her example. Â Why isn't DSHS terminating her parental rights. Â Think she proved she failed at that one.
Kids placed with relatives and judge "also told Anna Boyle she could not see or contact her children for four years."
Like THAT's going to happen. Bonehead judge, if you ask me.
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And why four years? Why not three? Or five?
I think a better solution would've been "supervised contact" until she's declared fit to be a parent. (although that in itself brings a whole host of other problems with it; how do you declare someone fit to be a parent??)
 @DrugFighter How do you know that is not going to happen? Do you know the relatives? Don't judge people when you have no idea who they are, they could be moving to Europe right now, as far as we know, to keep her away.
 @Just my say That's true. I *did* make a wild assumption there, didn't I?
Let's just say it's from experience.
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Besides, it's not fair to punish the kids and not let them at least see their mom. Supervised visitation would be much better.
But then again, if YOUR wild assumption of them moving to Europe is true, than that would be difficult....
 @DrugFighter I would agree with you on supervised visitation if the mother was not into drugs. I have no idea how bad she is into them, but no children deserves to watch their parent fight to become clean, even if its only a hour a week they would see her. From the way it sounds there is no dad because I have yet to hear of one being mention and that lets me know that these kids are needing all the help and love they can get. They really don't need to see anything else. It does not matter what a parent does to their child, that child loves their mom and dad no matter what. There comes a time when someone has to put a stop to the emotional damage that is occurring to the children.  I really do hope in 4 years there will be a happy ending, but I would doubt it. Not that I don't have faith but because she is going to turn to her druggie friends for support and fall back into it. I hope I am wrong and I am a true believer that family's need to stay together, some just need help.Â
 Only 6 mo wow Sure that teach her
 @Seattle At least the kids should be safe from her for longer than that.
@katiemcc @Seattle I'm wondering if the relatives are any better than she is.....
@katiemcc @Seattle Only if the relatives do what they are suppose to and keep her away.