I have to agree with Irish on his point Lou. The safety forces are there and paid for to do the job of apprehension in the same way as fire fighters are there to fight fires. When ¼ million $ men, equipment and system are purposely activated on false pretext, it’s another situation and a very costly waste of somebody else’s money. I also agree with Grumble and WildIrish that the idea is not to bury her OR the family with hopeless debt. The restitution was just in my opinion.

With the thousands of 20 year olds in Iraq today, I can’t accept her being considered a “juvenile”. And that answers what to do with her record.

Perhaps tying her probation and community work with missing persons programs to the FULL repayment of the $9K, (ONLY from wages the community work would pay, NOT payable by the parents) would provide incentive to reflect AND get it put behind her. I would only add that she also be on call from the coroner’s office to work with body recovery of actual victims.

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