I would fear that a settlement or other judgement of monies would just line the pockets of the mother and lawyer if this were to proceed. The girl is not a victim of the police but of her own guardian....not unlike selling into prostitution.
...The mother of the 5-year-old girl who was handcuffed at school by police has withdrawn her daughter from Pinellas public schools and is moving out of state, superintendent Clayton Wilcox said Monday night.
The development was the latest in a bizarre saga that began Friday, when a videotape of the handcuffing was made public....
...On Monday morning, the Largo lawyer representing the girl's mother appeared on five network news shows. He returned wearily to his office to find a fax from the mother, 24-year-old Inga Akins, stating he had been fired. The fax had been sent from the tabloid TV show A Current Affair, on which the mother appeared Friday and Monday....
...She was handcuffed at Fairmount Park Elementary on March 14 and transferred to another public school after the incident....
...Pinellas County records show that a St. Petersburg apartment complex where she lived moved to evict her on March 31, about two weeks after the handcuffing that put her daughter's face on TV screens across he world....
...A Current Affair also said the girl "had to flee her home to escape the media."
The show blamed Trevena's release of the video to major media outlets last week, including the St. Petersburg Times . The lawyer said a producer from the show "raged" at him last Friday, saying the release of the video violated an exclusive agreement between Akins and A Current Affair.
Trevena said he had been unaware of any agreement.
The show made no mention of its part in the media frenzy that has followed the video.
A Current Affair clearly communicated it had every intention of running the videotape, Trevena said. He also said the show interviewed Akins and her daughter only days after the handcuffing incident.
On Friday, a few hours after the video began screaming across the world, the show announced to the media that it had an exclusive....
... How did an incident that received mild attention in March blossom into a worldwide phenomenon five weeks later?...
..."This story is driven by 10 seconds of footage - two seconds of the tantrum and eight seconds of handcuffing," he said. "Completely taken out of context, but that is the media's way."...
Interesting timeline. Mom being evicted now claims she is moving to escape a media she obviously embraced -- tabloid at that to SELL (although we don't know for how much) the story of her child's behavior problems. All we do need now is Al Sharpton! LOL.
How sad. It does sound like the little girl had a history, with one officer in particular who had told her he would handcuff her again if this happened. He followed through. I hope CPS gets in the act and directs the money her Mom got for selling out her daughter into therapy to hopefully save her from her Mom
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