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    Default Posing As a Minor's Parent for a School Meeting

    My question involves criminal law for the state of: Virginia

    Here's the deal:

    I am a 38 year old guy, old enough to be a teenager's parent.

    I have been temporarily out of work for the past month due to a fire at my workplace we are projected to be able to return to work the week after Thanksgiving.

    As a result, I have been looking for day gigs on craigslist such as moving help, drywall etc to gain a little extra money to hold me over so I don't have to draw from savings. I was looking today and I came across a kind of a post that I wasn't expecting. It was offering $200 for a light skinned caucasion old eough to be a 16 year old's parent who is willing to play a fake parent for a meeting, and was vague other than that.

    I emailed the poster, and he replied with the following details:

    1. He is a high school junior, 16 going on 17, and has a car and a part time job.

    2. This coming Tuesday is a student holiday and a parent teacher conference day at his school. He described the process at his school. No appointment neccesary, meetings are held in the teachers classroom, and any parent who wants to meet with any of their kids teachers simply shows up at that teachers classroom and a 15 minute conference is held on a first come first serve basis.

    3. The kid has not been doing his math homework, although his test scores are high so he expects to still have a decent grade on his report card. His math teacher this past week asked him if his parents will be attending conference day, and the kid lied and said yes. His teacher then informed him that the upcoming conference day is the only reason she hasn't called home about him. So the kid knows that if his parents don't show up, his math teacher will call home and he will likely lose car priveleges.

    That's where I come in.

    On tuesday around 10am, he wants to meet me in the school parking lot. He pays me $100 up front. Then we go into the school together and go to the classroom. I introduce myself using whatever alias he wants me to use, claiming to be the dad.

    And I meet with his teacher, hear her complaints, and tell the kid I am disapointed in him and assure the math teacher that consequences will be enforced at home.

    Then we exit the building, he gives me the other $100, and we part company. The teacher is satisfied, the kids parents don't find out, I made the easiest $200 I ever made, and the beat goes on.

    1. Could I get into any legal trouble for this?

    2. If so, is there any way I could realistically be caught? Afterall, how does the teacher know I'm not his dad?

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    Default Re: Posing As a Minor's Parent for a School Meeting

    Try this...

    Yes, you can be found out - there is already a record of electronic communication between you two.


    Code of Virginia § 18.2-371

    18.2-371. Causing or encouraging acts rendering children delinquent,abused, etc.; penalty; abandoned infant.

    Any person 18 years of age or older, including the parent of any child, who(i) willfully contributes to, encourages, or causes any act, omission, or condition which renders a child delinquent, in need of services, in need of supervision, or abused or neglected as defined in 16.1-228, or (ii) engages in consensual sexual intercourse with a child 15 or older not his spouse, child, or grandchild, shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. This section shall not be construed as repealing, modifying, or in any way affecting 18.2-18, 18.2-19, 18.2-61, 18.2-63, 18.2-66, and 18.2-347.

    If the prosecution under this section is based solely on the accused parenthaving left the child at a hospital or rescue squad, it shall be anaffirmative defense to prosecution of a parent under this section that suchparent safely delivered the child to a hospital that provides 24-houremergency services or to an attended rescue squad that employs emergencymedical technicians, within the first 14 days of the child's life. In orderfor the affirmative defense to apply, the child shall be delivered in amanner reasonably calculated to ensure the child's safety.

    (Code 1950, 18.1-14; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1981, cc. 397, 568;1990, c. 797; 1991, c. 295; 1993, c. 411; 2003, cc. 816, 822; 2006, c. 935.)

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    Default Re: Posing As a Minor's Parent for a School Meeting

    You're an idiot to even consider it, and the kid is even more of an idiot to think it would work.

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    Default Re: Posing As a Minor's Parent for a School Meeting

    There is no way this will work. You do not know things about this kid that his parents know. The kid cannot tell you their parents perspective on things. It is not worth taking the chance. Teachers are not stupid.

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    Default Re: Posing As a Minor's Parent for a School Meeting

    @mercy&grace: Teachers might not be stupid, but if she has never met his parents, and I'm old enough to be his parent (21/22 years older than him) then how does she know I'm not his dad?

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    Default Re: Posing As a Minor's Parent for a School Meeting

    Quote Quoting Ray Crocker
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    1. Could I get into any legal trouble for this?
    Yes.

    Quote Quoting Ray Crocker
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    2. If so, is there any way I could realistically be caught? Afterall, how does the teacher know I'm not his dad?
    Yes. For example, you might fail to answer questions the teacher knows about the parent, or the parent may end up contacting the school later and then your impersonation would be exposed. The $200 you get from it isn't worth the fall out that could result as a result of it. Find work to do that does not involve deception and impersonation.

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    Default Re: Posing As a Minor's Parent for a School Meeting

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    @mercy&grace: Teachers might not be stupid, but if she has never met his parents, and I'm old enough to be his parent (21/22 years older than him) then how does she know I'm not his dad?
    The kid has no idea what parent-teacher conferences are like. You do not know the right things to ask or say. Neither does the kid. It takes much more than showing up and saying you're his dad.

    Other teachers know the parents. What makes the kid think other teachers will not know you are not the parent ? Teachers talk and they do not stay in their classrooms. You do not know how to act like a parent. Let alone this kids parent. You have no way of knowing if everything the kid says is the truth.

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    Default Re: Posing As a Minor's Parent for a School Meeting

    I have no sympathy for this kid. It's about time he learned that actions (or inactions, in this case) have consequences. If he loses his car privileges, so be it. Better he learn it now that in college, or even worse on the job when he doesn't do what he's supposed to. I don't know how you can even consider conspiring with this kid to deceive his parents about something they have a right to know.

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    Default Re: Posing As a Minor's Parent for a School Meeting

    @mercyandgrace I have no idea what you think acting like a parent means. I have 3 cousins, 8 9 and 10 whom I regularly babysit and take them out for activities when I do so, and I am routinely naturally mistaken for being their dad, including by other people who have kids. What's wrong with all those people and parents? Are you saying they dont make it as good parents because they think im their dad? I guarantee you would be no exception. You would not know im their cousin and not their parent until you hear them calling me something other than "dad."

    As for the kid having any idea what parent teacher conferences are like, did you ever consider that attending them with his parents before might give him an ioda of a clue what they are like? Doi.

    Don't know what to say or ask? How is my son doing? What is his average? Is he getting all his assignments done? Is there anything he needs to improve on? How is his in class conduct? His participation? His attendence? Do you have any concerns? Suggestions?

    What is it about any of those things that would cause a teacher to say "Aha! You are no parent, you are a paid actor!"

    There is no standard parent and no standard script for what all parents say or ask during conferences.

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    Default Re: Posing As a Minor's Parent for a School Meeting

    If you have already made up your mind to commit fraud, why did you bother asking if you could get into trouble?

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