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Truant parents escape jail
TWO parents have escaped a jail sentence after pleading guilty to allowing their daughter to play truant from school.
At a hearing at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court yesterday (Wednesday) the justice of the peace recommended a parenting order.
Both parents of the 14-year-old Hampstead girl attended the hearing.
The mother appealed to the chairwoman of the bench Mrs J Shewry that her daughter’s education had suffered as she had been through “lots of emotional problems”.
The court heard the teenager had only attended 17 per cent of classes at her school Agincourt House in Hampstead, where she went after being excluded from Camden School For Girls.
The mother said her recent divorce had affected her daughter’s behaviour and that she had struggled to cope in the company of other children.
She told the court: “It wasn’t like we ever said, yes, just stay in bed, but she had a lot of emotional problems.”
The case has been adjourned until November 15 to allow a pre-sentence report to be compiled following talks with Camden’s education authority and the probation services. |
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