Wanna send your kid to a better school, even if it's in a district you don't live in? Be prepared to go to jail!
Kelley Williams-Bolar a single mom of two, was just sentenced to 10 days in jail, charged with a felony of fraud while her ex-husband was charged with grand larceny for trying to enroll their kid in a better school than the one the failing school in their own district.
Judge Patricia Cosgrove decided—in her own words—she needed to make an example out of Bolar, a single woman with no criminal background just to make a point:
Please sign the petition below to get Kelle Williams-Bolar’s sentence reduced to what anyone else in her situation would receive, no more, no less. Fair is Fair. Just is just.
Join the fight.
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TEXT OF THE PETITION BELOW... FULL LINK HERE
Calling for Reduction on Appeal of Ms. Kelly Williams-Bolar Sentencing for Fraud and Theft
I desire and support a reduction on appeal for Ms. Kelley Williams-Bolar's unfairly severe sentencing resulting from sending her children to a school system outside of her district. Ms. Williams, a single mother with no prior criminal record, has been made a felon by Judge Patricia Cosgrove and the Summit County jury which convicted her.
In addition to jail time, a fine and probation, Ms. Williams-Bolar's felony conviction will prevent her from using the education she had been receiving in order to become a public school teacher. This sentence has all but ensured that the dire social and economic circumstances which drove Ms. Williams-Bolar to de-fraud the school system in the first place will never change. She has been robbed of the opportunity to elevate her life and the lives of her family through her own intelligence and hard work- the alleged "American Dream." Judge Cosgrove has essentially handed Ms. Williams-Bolar a life sentence for attempting to protect and enrich her children in ways that her government and community have failed to do. Considering the overwhelming economic troubles affecting so many US citizens, loving, hard working single mothers like Williams-Bolar are not the enemy our court system should be making examples of in this way.
The sentence handed down by Judge Cosgrove is ridiculously severe and overwhelmingly inappropriate. According to Ed Holland, superintendent of Cuyahoga Falls schools, fraud of this sort is committed by "three or four families a year" in his district, and those disputes are resolved without filing appalling criminal lawsuits like this one. Kelley Williams-Bolar's punishment in no way appropriately fits her crime, and I urge you to reduce her sentence upon her appeal.
