Arkansas teen files complaint against mother after Facebook dustup

[The Straight Story]

Arkansas teen files complaint against mother after Facebook dustup

The mother of a 16-year-old boy said she was only being a good mom when she locked him out of his Facebook account after reading he had driven home at 95 mph one night because he was mad at a girl. His response: a harassment complaint at the local courthouse.

"If I'm found guilty on this it is going to be open season" on parents, Denise New said Wednesday.

New, of Arkadelphia, a small college town an hour southwest of Little Rock, said many of her son's postings didn't reflect well on him, so after he failed to log off the social networking site one day last month, she posted her own items on his account and changed his password to keep him from using it again. But her son claims what she posted wasn't true, and that she's damaging his reputation.

“The things he was posting in Facebook would make any decent parent's eyes pop out and his jaw drop,” Denise New said. “He had been warned before about things he had been posting.” Lane New, who lives with his grandmother, filed a complaint with prosecutors who approved a harassment charge March 26. Neither New would say Wednesday which items on his Facebook site the boy had found slanderous.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/crime-scene/around-the-nation/arkansas-teen-files-complaint.html#more

[deaniac21]

1. Oh, the HUMANITY!

[emulatorloo]

2. The Teenager's Right To Life Liberty and Facebook Must Be Upheld! LOL n/t

[RoyGBiv]

3. What?

:banghead:

[HipChick]

4. His mother lost legal custody of him...so why is she stalking him?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8108955

[TexasObserver]

6. She had no legal right to do any of that, either.

If she was a mother with custodial rights, she would likely have the cover of laws protecting the right of parents to oversee their minor children and their activities.

On a strictly good sense basis, her conduct was way over the line, even for a parent who has custodial rights.

[underseasurveyor]

5. If that were my 16 year old

I'd pull that little license of his so fast. Now sonny-boy you can walk to the courthouse and file your complaint. See you in court!