Early update for September 26, 2023
Added 2023-09-25 03:56:00 +0000 UTCi don't belong here
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I wish I could feel optimistic that a prosecutor would not request that a child involved in an attempted armed robbery with hostage taking be tried as an adult if he or she surrendered peacefully like Sal. At least the Walkertons can afford lawyers and have positive relations with the Billingsworths.
Corzican
2023-09-25 22:42:19 +0000 UTCThat's also why I care about Ruth so much.
Onyx
2023-09-25 22:08:47 +0000 UTCSal and Marcie, and a little less Danny, are my babies. Also, Sal has always been my favorite character through It's Walky! and Roomies. I am very protective of her.
Onyx
2023-09-25 22:05:37 +0000 UTCAlso she was THIRTEEN. She could have plead down, and with her motivations and the fact no one was hurt, she might have even got off with probation, or at the very least done much less than five years in what was probably a school for delinquent kids where her parents stuck her and ignored her.
Onyx
2023-09-25 22:00:10 +0000 UTCI was going to say more, but honestly this situation sucks all around. The most important part is that Sal didn't feel like her parents tried hard enough to keep her safe, and that hurts a kid just as hard as whether or not they did. Anyway https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/resources/law_related_education_network/how_courts_work/pleabargaining/
Snail
2023-09-25 21:15:51 +0000 UTCI don't think that is it - Charles has always backed up Linda, and that included in her racism, and that has to sting even more - she expects Linda to be the way she is, but Charles has always chosen to be complacent even when he knew how Sal was feeling. That is almost a bigger betrayal.
Onyx
2023-09-25 06:23:11 +0000 UTCShe was a minor, she probably would have plead down, and even if not they basically abandoned her in boarding school - this wasn't about what was best for her, it was about their appearances.. (And that wasn't a private school-type thing.) And she can't live with their disapproval - she'd been struggling with it the entire comic's run. It has nothing to do with dismissal, they dismissed her with disapproval and disappointment,
Onyx
2023-09-25 06:21:41 +0000 UTCShe's crying. 🥺 I think that means she still holds enough trust for Charles to be vulnerable in front of him. Don't think I've ever seen her cry in front of Linda.
Lisa
2023-09-25 05:11:10 +0000 UTCI know Sal is mad at, well a bunch of things (but the difference in treatment vis a vis Walky hits pretty close for me). But complaining about getting sent out of state, girl you were up for a FELONY. If your mom really wanted you gone she could have let you go to jeuvie. Getting sent to private school out of state is the kind of punishment you get for throwing an unauthorized (and house-wrecking) teen party. (No, it didn't happen to me, I didn't even attend, but let's say I was proximate to it). What burns Sal is the dismissal, disapproval she can live with (hell it's clearly been an attention-getter for years).
Andrew Dederer
2023-09-25 05:08:43 +0000 UTCAh America, where a Assault on regular person is treated lesser than a robbery because the life of a teen minority means very little compared to property in our justice system.
HenryVolt
2023-09-25 04:55:29 +0000 UTCAmber stayed in the same middle school, even though she committed the only bodily harm in the incident. (Sal threatened to harm Ethan, though.) Linda recently wanted Amber out of IU, a delay of five years after sending Sal Away.
Dan Rabin
2023-09-25 04:50:53 +0000 UTCIdk seems more like she's pointing out that this was an easy solution for them, that sending her away was a no brainer because she was already the scapegoat
Sam G
2023-09-25 04:50:43 +0000 UTCHonestly, I can get wanting to keep her out of juvie, but who were you conceding to when you hardly spoke to her and haven't seen her in five years? And so help me god if it turns out that this school was one of those 'troubled teen industry' places, my fury will radiate so strong y'all will be able to TASTE it
BBCC
2023-09-25 04:34:47 +0000 UTCSal got treated very poorly, and she was a minor when it happened, but I think she could better accept that armed robbery of a gas station isn’t something her parents can just disappear for her if they loved her more.
Shane Wegner
2023-09-25 04:34:44 +0000 UTCWhy do you you do this Willis Hit after hit after hit? But why so close to my home?
Jey Siksa
2023-09-25 04:20:35 +0000 UTCExactly. Linda and Charles pretty much seem like people who want to maintain an image or idea of what they want their lives to be like, and Sal was messing with that by being *checks notes* a normal child.
If It Bleeds
2023-09-25 04:14:23 +0000 UTCMy personal issue with the Tennessee thing wasn't just sending her there, its that if by chance they had just as much contact with her as they allowed Walky then they made very little to no effort to keep in touch with her. It seemed like they wanted an easy out and a first class ticket to get what they viewed as the black sheep of their family out of their lives, and when they were presented with the first opportunity to do so they took it. It's like a "We don't talk about Bruno" situation.
HenryVolt
2023-09-25 04:12:12 +0000 UTCThis might actually be the first productive talk they've had in five years, depending how he handles this.
BBCC
2023-09-25 04:08:05 +0000 UTC
