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posted by janrinok on Thursday November 30 2017, @12:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the running-out-of-options dept.

Mom charged after putting recording device in daughter's backpack

In late September, Sims says she had enough. She tells 10 On Your Side her 9-year-old daughter was getting bullied at Ocean View Elementary. She says repeated calls and emails to the school went un-returned. [...] Sims says she took actions into her own hands. She wanted to prove that nothing was being done to help her 4th grade daughter. She put a digital recorder into her daughter's backpack in hopes of catching audio from inside the classroom. "If I'm not getting an answer from you what am I left to do?" she asked. The recorder was found. The 9-year-old was moved to a new classroom and about a month later Sims was charged by police.

[...] Sims was charged with felony use of device to intercept oral communication and misdemeanor contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The felony charge could carry five years in prison.

Also at CNN and Time.

Code of Virginia ยง 19.2-62. Interception, disclosure, etc., of wire, electronic or oral communications unlawful; penalties; exceptions.


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  • (Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Friday December 01 2017, @04:30AM

    by TheGratefulNet (659) on Friday December 01 2017, @04:30AM (#603797)

    never been there, but I'm quite certain that virginia is NOT the north, as far as attitudes go.

    most certainly south.

    note, I never said deep south, but its surely a southern state.

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