Baloon Boy Parents To Plead Guilty

Well, the jig as they say, is up for the creepy balloon boy hoax parents.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/12/balloon.boy.charges/index.html

Part of the reason the parents agreed to plea deals was the citizenship status of the mother Mayumi Heene. That makes sense. The indignation of the family's lawyers certainly does not make sense.

The threat of deportation for Mayumi Heene was a factor in the plea deal negotiation, the attorney's statement said.

"Mayumi Heene is a citizen of Japan. As such, any felony conviction or certain misdemeanors would result in her deportation, even though her husband and children are Americans," the statement said.

"It is supremely ironic that law enforcement has expressed such grave concern over the welfare of the children, but it was ultimately the threat of taking the children's mother from the family and deporting her to Japan which fueled this deal."

Um, you're damn right. These parents screwed up and tried to make a little kid lie to Wolf Blitzer so that the parents (not the family, the parents) could maybe get a reality TV show. They are lucky to still have kids. You just said yourself that if they risked going to court for a felony she can get deported. You want to take that risk? Maybe you want them to just not be charged with anything at all. Seeing as your client has already come out and said it was a hoax (that cost taxpayers a couple mil), these prosecutors are throwing you a absolute, gift wrapped bone here by allowing a plea and not nailing your ass to the wall. Where does this indignation that this plea is somehow bad for the welfare of the children come from, you prick? I think it is well within law enforcement's right to threaten someone with deportation if they VERY CLEARLY ADMIT TO BREAKING THE LAW and the DA wants to avoid a pain in the ass (albeit a slam dunk pain in the ass) trial.

So, sorry, balloon parents. You won't get media coverage of a trial either, which I'm sure you would've loved.