No jail sentence for abduction angers father
Tayna Brown to receive five years probation
The father of two girls who were abducted by their mother in 2005 reacted with outrage Tuesday to the punishment she received.
Or more precisely, the lack of punishment.
“Five years probation? C’mon,” Chuck Brown said Tuesday, after the no-jail sentencing of his former wife, Tanya Diane Brown.
Tanya Brown, who hid five abducted children for three years in a remote mountain home near Tehachapi, was sentenced Tuesday to five years probation with no jail time.
Sadly, this is all too common in family abduction cases. Even though the children are now far behind in school and didn’t get medical care while they were gone, the abducting parent usually gets away with a slap on the wrist. It is a tragic effect of the school of thought that the kid is with a parent and is therefore all right.