It's Friday, so let's play an easy game. Take a look at this mug shot and guess what this woman did to land herself in jail. Just study her picture for a minute or two and guess: What did she do? What kind of person does she look like? Don't worry about being fair or having facts. Just take a guess.
Here goes:
Ready?
OK–here's what she did: She broke down and sobbed in court after the judge awarded sole custody of her two younger children to their abusive father.
The judge's "official" charge was criminal trespass. Robin Karr appeared at a court hearing she'd been ordered to attend, so the "reason" for her arrest is ludicrous. But her arrest only came after she dared to demonstrate emotion, and then it came swiftly. The female judge was offended, perhaps disgusted, by this mother's display of grief at her no-doubt carefully calculated ruling.
In short–Robin Karr was arrested for crying.
"I went into shock while in jail and lost all of my hair. The trauma was all just so great," she says. "Why was I arrested for criminal trespass when I was at a hearing I was ordered to attend? I've never wanted anyone to see the arrest photo before, but I don't care at this point. I want people to see what a protective mother being arrested for crying over not being allowed to see her babies, even supervised, looks like."
What did you see when you first viewed Robin's mugshot? You wouldn't be alone if you assumed she was there because she'd done something terrible. That's most everyone's assumption when a person is arrested–they assume the person is guilty, else they wouldn't have been arrested in the first place, right? But these days, you can't know that. It can be as capricious as the whim of a sadistic judge who seems hell-bent on adding more flames to someone's living hell. An abusive spouse–or in this case, a judge–can have a woman arrested for practically anything.
In other words, those prison bars are going to clang shut behind you regardless of whether you actually did anything, or not. If someone wants to put you there, they can if they find clever means. This is how the "divorce gamesmanship" I write about is easily carried out through manipulation of laws that make it easier than ever before to get someone arrested. This is why I've strived to educate people how to spot when this could possibly happen, how to spot the game as it's put into action. Because usually, the target of this game of deception is oblivious that such things can happen, and is caught unawares–and that, my friends, is the game...
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