Perry County mother charged with unlawfully entering school bus to help a son she thought was ill

Perry County mother charged with unlawfully entering school bus to help a son she thought was ill

If Tara Keener had known that her 5-year-old son was only sleeping, she might not have acted this way.

But Keener, an emergency room nurse, didn’t know. All she knew was what she could see through the windows of a big yellow school bus as she walked down her Perry County driveway. Other kids were standing over the kindergartner’s assigned seat, yelling that Xander was slumped over.

“Help, he’s not moving,” she recalled during a recent court hearing. “We can’t wake him up.”

So she ran to the bus, up the steps and to the landing. The driver told her she couldn’t get on the bus. It’s against the law.

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/07/perry_county_mother_charged_wi.html

irrational rules and fear everywhere... damn.

these cretins deserve permanent unemployment and poverty. A mother tries to help her child whom she believes is ill and THIS is the result?


Disgusting!

The legal doctrine of justification allows you to technically break the law if by doing so you prevented a greater "social mayhem". In other words, Ms. Keener prevented her son from dying by boarding the bus based on what she was told. A judge would likely allow her to "rescue" her son if the only way to prevent harm would be her boarding the bus.

Why the delay? Perry County District Attorney Charles F. Chenot III — who initially said this was one of those situations that could go either way — said he changed his mind after a conversation with Pamala Schaeffer, the assistant to Dennis Dum. Dum’s Bus Service is contracted by West Perry Schools to transport all district children to school each day.

“The bus company’s main point is, we can’t let one person do this because pretty soon you’ll have all kinds of parents on there,” Chenot said. “Most parents aren’t a problem, but what do you do when a ... sex offender wants to get on the bus and get his kids off? We need to have that protection in place.”

I'm not a lawyer, but don't RNs have to help if someone is sick or ill? :shrug:

Anyway, America has become a nation of nitwits.

those in an emergency situation.

The bus company will lose this I presume. Not only from a compassionate place (mom thinks son is in trouble) but from a medical perspective as well.

in the "comments" section, someone alludes to a woman in a wheelchair charged with DUI. Wow.

It is actually quite beautiful, but it does have its quirks. The county line is on top of a ridge I can see from my house (anyone hear a Palin joke waiting to happen in that statement?)

nt.

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