UK: Looks like ‘Mean’ law enforcement works

A 14-year-old girl was taken into foster care yesterday after both her parents were jailed for her truancy from school. Christopher and Deborah Haine were jailed for four months after their daughter Shlaine only attended school for the equivalent of six days over a seven-month period.

Anthony Harris, a chairman at Newport Magistrates' court, said the couple had also shown contempt for the two month suspended sentence imposed on them in January of this year for a similar conviction regarding their daughter. Mr and Mrs Haine, both 41, were first prosecuted in 2002 for failing to ensure Shlaine and their son Caine attended school.

In 2002 Patricia Amos, the Oxfordshire single mother, became the first parent to be jailed for their child's truancy. Ms Amos was jailed for failing to ensure that her daughters, Emma, 15, and Jackie, 13, attended lessons at their Banbury comprehensive school.

She was sentenced to 60 days in jail in 2002 but was released on appeal after serving two weeks in prison. The sentence was hailed as a success by ministers after Ms Amos's daughters said that seeing their mother behind bars had convinced them to return to school.

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