17 year old arrested after forging Dr. notes to excuse absences

[RedRocco]

DUNCAN, S.C. (WSPA) – The Miss South Carolina Teen International 2015 was arrested for forgery on Monday, May 23, according to the Duncan Police Department.

17-year-old Madison Cox is charged with counterfeiting/forgery after writing several doctor’s notes to cover her absences from school, police say.

The notepad that was used to write the excuses came from Parris Family Chiropractic, but the notes were not genuine.


http://wspa.com/2016/05/25/fmr-miss-spartanburg-teen-international-arrested-for-forgery/

[Shrike47]

1. Good.

[RedRocco]

2. So cutting school should be a felony in your book....

It's not like she was counterfeiting prescriptions.

maybe she should have put "signed: Epstien's Mom" at the bottom

[WillowTree]

3. No. But forgery should.

[moonbabygo]

16. boy times have changed

I used to sign my parents name, my friends parents name. OMG I'm a felon!!!

what a shame we create criminals

signed
Epstien's mom

[Javaman]

18. forgery of a doctors name.

that is what is at issue.

or are you okay with drug users forging a doctors name on a script as well?

[moonbabygo]

20. Get real

A note pad was used and a DR. is no different than signing anyone else name.

The person was 17 shall we make a criminal out of them?

[Javaman]

22. Actually, I am quite real and not a bot.

a doctors script can get someone sudafed. and that is "quite real".

but hey, if you are okay with forgery and allowing people to gain access to prescription only drugs, you need to "get real".

Because what is at hand here is forgery.

but I can see that there is no convincing you otherwise.

so, as they say in the movies, we are done.

[RedRocco]

23. kinda hard to forge a prescription with a NOTE PAD

[Javaman]

39. ...

forgery is forgery.

would it be okay if someone forged your name?


yes or no?

[Dorian Gray]

40. You don't need a dr.'s note for sudafed

anyone can buy it. But, your point is true, that forging a doctor's note on their stationery is more problematic than a simple parental permission slip. But I also don't think this should be jail time for the young girl. The school should have handled it with a suspension and consequences there. (Though if the dr. pressed charges, that may be a different matter.)

[Javaman]

41. I agree about how she should be handled...

it's the issue as to whether or not it's forgery that I was talking about with the other poster.

[Dorian Gray]

43. I agree

that forging a doctor's signature isn't cool. In this case, the school should handle it. But, yeah, so many people could use this for bad things, so it shouldn't be allowed.

[alphafemale]

7. Exactly. If she wasn't using the stolen Rx pad for narcotics?

And if she did not steal it?

Somebody she is in with contact was.

Those aren't stolen because you are tpp lazy for gym.

[Angel Martin]

10. Dean Wormer shares your mirthless outrage

at the slightest sign of teenage hijinks

[RedRocco]

14. according to the article it was a note pad not a Rx pad

[Hassin Bin Sober]

36. I have a note pad and pens from my dentist. And a calendar. And a tooth brush.

Perhaps I should turn myself in.

[No Vested Interest]

4. Too clever for her own good. nt

[bjo59]

5. Good example of the change that has occurred in this country. When I was in high school no student

would have been arrested for forging doctors notes to excuse their absences.

[KT2000]

6. I used to sign my friend's

poor work slips. It seemed like the right thing to do at the time. His home life was nuts. He did OK - PhD in nuclear pharmacy and a good job.

[alphafemale]

8. Theft of an Rx pad has always been a crime.

Period.

[AngryAmish]

9. Chiropractors don't prescribe Rx

[RedRocco]

15. except it wasn't an Rx pad

the article says note pad

[ChisolmTrailDem]

21. You are repeating disinformation. It was NOT an Rx pad, it was a NOTE PAD! Get it right. nt

[RKP5637]

27. Same here. n/t

[malaise]

11. What's it with these Miss South Carolina queens

One was the queen of dumb a few years back.

This child has issues that I am not sure will be addressed with an arrest.

[Orrex]

12. She was also cited for telling people that one of their legs is longer than the other

and for claiming that adjusting subluxations can cure sinus infections.

[Dorian Gray]

42. heh

a chiropractor once told me he could get me pregnant through treatment. (I went because of back pain, and I was suffering infertility. He wanted to take x-rays, and I declined because I thought that was stupid for a chiropractor to do. But I felt guilty saying that, so I told him I was going through treatments to get pregnant, and I didn't think x-rays were wise in case I was pregnant. He responded to that with "I can get you pregnant." Um, dude, no! And I hightailed it out of there, forever. The end.)

Just crack my back.

[Orrex]

47. Yikes! That's about the worst pickup line ever!

[Lee-Lee]

13. Story is kind of short on specifics

Did this come as a result of the doctors office pushing charges for theft of the documents and forging under thier name, or from the school reporting it?


If the former, I understand it. A doctors office would have to report a theft and forgery on their letterhead and under their name if discovered.

If the latter then that's just another example of lazy and incompetent school officials calling the police to handle discipline matters that have no business being handled by police that administrators should be able to handle in the school.

[Iggo]

17. Shoulda just forged her parent's signature like everybody else.

And kept the punishment fetishists off her back.

[Blue_Tires]

26. Maybe next time she won't be such a dumbass, then

FWIW, forged doctor notes and fake doctor phone calls to school have long been used as a cover for abuse, abduction, etc...

[Iggo]

28. Like I said, If she'd've done it right, the punishment fetishists would be off her back.

See, that means I think she did the wrong thing.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

37. Maybe they should charge her with self-kidnapping. That'll learn her.

[Blue_Tires]

45. Nope, fraud is enough...

Would anybody excuse this if it was an adult getting out of work, or grifting disability?

[WillowTree]

32. Better yet, shoulda just gone to school.

[Iggo]

34. Not what I was talking about, but yeah, that'd be the way to go.

[Stinky The Clown]

19. 17 and a potential felon for cutting school.

Reason ought to prevail.

But noooooooooo. Let's criminalize kids for basically silly shit.

Those of you being so absolutist, what the FUCK is wrong with you?

These are C H I L D R E N ferkrissakes.

[Blue_Tires]

25. 17 is too young to know right and wrong??

Then that's just a matter of shitty parenting then...

[Stinky The Clown]

46. Stop acting obtuse

It was a note to cut fucking class. Get a grip.

[Blue_Tires]

48. Tell SC to get a grip....

I didn't fucking arrest her.

[Stinky The Clown]

49. You're right

All you did was defend and make excuses for them. What good person you are. Stalwart of fair and even handed law enforcement.

[Blue_Tires]

24. Yeah, god forbid the doctor want to

maintain his/her professional reputation after seeing their name forged under a bullshit diagnosis... Shocking to see folks defend this.

[jberryhill]

30. First off, no one is "defending this"

I imagine you would be fine if she were sentenced to death.

If not, then why would you be "defending" her?

We're talking about cutting school here, not issuing a medical diagnosis.

NO doctor of any kind would put ANY medical diagnosis on a school absence excuse note.

It would be illegal for a doctor to do that.

Do you understand that, as a threshold proposition? No doctor, no chiropractor, and no nurse or other health professional would EVER put a student's medical diagnosis on a note to school excusing an absence.

This is "Please excuse Sally from class on (date)".

If anyone did see a note saying, "Please excuse Sally from class because she has to get VD treatment" you'd pretty much know you were looking at a fake note right there.

So, how many years in jail do you think she should get for it? Be specific.

[Blue_Tires]

44. She won't get any fucking jail for this, and nor did I say she should get it

She'll plea to the lowest possible charge, get 6 months probation, and when she turns 18 this incident will be sealed.. Lesson learned, she moves on...

I probably feel different about this because my father was a doctor, and there were instances where people forged his name for whatever reason...

[Hassin Bin Sober]

38. The "Doctor " is a chiropractor. That ship has sailed.

[alarimer]

29. What next? Forging a prescription for homeopathy?

Chiropractors are not doctors. They are quacks and frauds. "Professional reputation" LOL.

[Iggo]

35. Shh!

[Octafish]

31. Lucky she wasn't shot as a terrorist.

Probably on a list now, somewhere, in the bowels of South Carolina Homeland Securitea.

[Shrike47]

33. As a juvenile, she wouldn't be prosecuted for forgery, she would be adjudicated a delinquent.

She would not be incarcerated unless she violated the rules of probation. Or we could let her go on being entitled and consequence free.