Lawyer on Runaway Ohio Mom: No Charges, Will Pay Thousands

Submitted by anthony on Fri, 2010-04-30 16:37

Story here. Excerpt:

'The Ohio mother who set off a nationwide manhunt when she ran away with another man earlier this month will face no charges in Ohio, but she and the man will pay thousands in restitution to the county, an attorney for the woman told ABC News today.

"My clients have agreed to make full restitution for the investigation in whatever amount the prosecutor deemed appropriate," Jon Paul Rion, attorney for former missing mother Tiffany Tehan and boyfriend Tre Hutcherson, told ABC News today. "I think that they've always wanted to make this county as whole as possible."

While Rion would not disclose the exact amount that was settled on, he said it is greater than $5,000.

Tehan disappeared while she was supposedly shopping on Saturday, April 17, leaving behind her husband David and year-old daughter Lexie. The vanishing act triggered a cross-country search until police, acting on a tip from the FBI, found Tehan and a man identified as Tre Hutcherson staying at motel in Miami Beach, Florida. Police, who had been calling Hutcherson a person of interest in her disappearance, quickly determined that Tehan was not in danger.'

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First, this case is a tempest in a teapot: no crime was committed, no one was in danger. The ONLY reason that it was a tempest was because of society's overvaluation of women; a man who "stepped out for a pack of cigarettes" never to return would never trigger such a manhunt regardless of the anxiety of his abandoned wife.

Second, you gotta love the *cough* mangina husband who wants her back. He'll be the one who actually pays restitution to the county, and the next time she bolts, she'll probably take the kid, get custody in another venue and strip-mine his sorry ass.

Last, why punish the stud-muffin. All he did was provide the high hard one. They can't say he abetted in a crime since, by their own admission, there was no crime. Oh, I know. Whenever a female does anything wrong, there must be a male involved, a Svengali to her liberated woman.

So in essence, we have a chagrined police force, two men penalized financially—three if her father pays the lawyer—and an empowered woman biding her time for her next escapade.

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Submitted by Hunchback on Sat, 2010-05-01 15:21

But based on what I saw of him, he's a pushover, so he won't. He is letting it happen to him.

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2010-05-01 16:18