Army Sends Infant to Protective Services, Mom to Afghanistan
U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if she does not agree to deploy to Afghanistan, despite having been told she would be granted extra time to find someone to care for her 11-month-old son while she is overseas.
Hutchinson, of Oakland, California, is currently being confined at Hunter Army Airfield near Savannah, Georgia, after being arrested. Her son was placed into a county foster care system.
Hutchinson has been threatened with a court martial if she does not agree to deploy to Afghanistan on Sunday, Nov. 15. She has been attempting to find someone to take care of her child, Kamani, while she is deployed overseas, but to no avail.
According to the family care plan of the U.S. Army, Hutchinson was allowed to fly to California and leave her son with her mother, Angelique Hughes of Oakland.
However, after a week of caring for the child, Hughes realized she was unable to care for Kamani along with her other duties of caring for a daughter with special needs, her ailing mother, and an ailing sister.
In late October, Angelique Hughes told Hutchinson and her commander that she would be unable to care for Kamani after all. The Army then gave Hutchinson an extension of time to allow her to find someone else to care for Kamani. Meanwhile, Hughes brought Kamani back to Georgia to be with his mother.
However, only a few days before Hutchinson’s original deployment date, she was told by the Army she would not get the time extension after all, and would have to deploy, despite not having found anyone to care for her child.
Faced with this choice, Hutchinson chose not to show up for her plane to Afghanistan. The military arrested her and placed her child in the county foster care system.
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sad
this is so sad...poor girl, just wished she could stay home and care for her child.
I would so step up and help her out. But I don't want her to have to go over there.
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Great way to foster a sense of loyalty in someone.
Not sure what they expect from her in Afghanistan. This soldier's enemy is the U.S. Army. :(
everyone's enemy is essentially
the immoral Federal Government and the Fed Banksters that fund all this bullshit. they stink, and i hate em.
horrible...
bump - Thank you for posting this for us.
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Cases like this aren't rare but...
They generally rescind or reassign. The state won't take custody in this case and will contact her superiors.
God bless that poor mother and her son--
it's hard to be awake; it's easier to dream--
those monsters!
I'm going to do what I can do--
I'm going to pray for her--
I feel angry and sad.
it's hard to be awake; it's easier to dream--
I think Americans should be calling the military on this
disgusting piece of behavior and letting them have an earful!
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And the Army wonders why "terrorist soldiers" are going postal
This is insane... That some tribal dispute between the hill billies of Afghanistan is more important than this single mother providing for her infant son.
And the Army wonders why "terrorist soldiers" are going postal
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Another way to destroy the family
They have plenty of jobs in the states for a single mother so this is just a bunch of garbage. BUT any woman who thinks she is going into the service and not have something like this happen is naive. I wanted to be an officer (years ago) when I graduated college, in the Air Force, but I knew I couldn't do that and be a mother to my little boy, too. There is a major double standard. Women did a lot in WWII to help, they don't have to go to war zones to do it.
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just one of many reasons
why women should not be allowed to serve in the military.
But there is no draft
This is an all volunteer army, remember that if you start to wonder where the frigging priorities of this nation lie.
Without mothers...
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Which is precisely why women
Which is precisely why women should not be in the battlefields! (No offense to any women, but this is not fair to mother or child)
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