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- From: rhuss+@EDRC.CMU.EDU (Robert Huss)
- Subject: Re: Judge Sends Girl To Church
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:38:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.222918.2655@b11.b11.ingr.com>, sidney@b11.b11.ingr.com (Sidney Smith) writes:
- |>
- |> I was recently watching COURT TV when something very
- |> disturbing happened. They were showing different
- |> juvenile cases in a Texas court room, when the judge
- |> ordered a little girl to go to church and ask her
- |> pastor what church work she should perform for
- |> punishment. The judge gave her a specific number of
- |> hours of "community service" to perform at her church,
- |> and told her to tell her pastor to call the judge up
- |> and report the young girl's progress. I don't see
- |> how the judge can call this "community service".
- |>
-
- Churches do community service. Most churches have a
- special organization for community aid: feeding the homeless, donating
- close, toys for poor children, etc... If the judge could not think
- of a specific community service task for the girl to do as punishment,
- perhaps she thought that the pastor of the girls church would have
- an appropriate task available.
- Also, community service is anything that helps some
- section of the community. Working in a church would help a significant
- section of the community. Working in a soup kitchen would help a
- different section of the community. It is still community work, and
- would be reasonable punishment for a minor. I would imagine
- that the definition of community service is work done for any
- non-profit organization, which regularly uses volunteers.
-
- Bob Huss
-