That relationship, though, devolved to the point where the 21-year-old senior sought and won, in an unusual court case, a stalking order against her parents.
“It’s just been really embarrassing and upsetting to have my parents come to my university when I’m a grown adult and just basically slander my name and follow me around,” Aubrey Ireland said in an Oct. 9 court hearing.
Despite her good grades and success in musical shows, David and Julie Ireland often drove 600 miles from Leawood, Kan., to visit their daughter unannounced. They accused her of using illegal drugs, promiscuity and suffering from mental woes. She insisted none of that was true and asked them to stop, but their accusations escalated. They informed her department head she had mental issues that could force them to go to court to have her treated.
The parents knew about what they saw as their daughter’s problems because, they admit, they installed monitoring software on her laptop and cellphone, allowing them to see her every keystroke and phone number dialed or received. It was “like I was a dog with a collar on,” said the daughter, a dean’s list student every quarter.
The parents became such an issue that the school hired security guards to keep them out of their daughter’s performances. When the parents stopped paying her tuition because she’d cut off all contact with them, the school gave her a full scholarship for her final year.
The college senior decided to seek a civil stalking order to keep her parents away from her after they went to UC and told her college administrators they could seek to have her taken in for mental evaluations. She filed a Sept. 24 stalking order against her parents.
After Common Pleas Court Judge Jody Luebbers asked the sides to work out a settlement moments before the Dec. 10 court hearing started, Julie Ireland told her daughter’s attorney they wanted her to return to them the $66,000 they’d spent on her three years of college tuition. After an intervention failed when the interventionists told the parents they, not their daughter, were the issue, the Irelands said their daughter was “a good actor and lying.”
Because Aubrey Ireland is an adult, she is allowed to live her life as she chooses, a judge ruled. Her parents were ordered to stay at least 500 feet away from her and have no contact with her until at least Sept. 23, 2013.
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- sent in by vog3lfr3i
I saw this story earlier. Interesting. Some of the other stories have other details, such as the mother insisting that the daughter leave Skype on at night so they could watch the young woman sleep.
ReplyDeleteFor those so inclined, check Glenn Beck's site "The Blaze" for the comments. A large number of the commentators support the parents, some blame President Obama, and many insist the parent have the right to do whatever they want because they're paid for the girl's education. A few claim that she's not an adult until she's 26 because of "Obamacare." (huh??)
MAM, the people blaming Obamacare are 92 and lost their ability to drive last year after running over the church's nativity scene while thinking they were Occupy Wall Street protesters.
ReplyDeleteVogelfrei, play some "Free Bird." [throws some coins at him]
Link to full article gets a page saying "We hope you enjoyed your free access" and then asks for payment. Nope, didn't enjoy my free access. Didn't get any.
ReplyDeleteI was able to access it by looking up the first sentence on Google and clicking on http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20121225/NEWS0107/312230085/?nclick_check=1.
DeleteSorry. It comes up whenever I click it. When I'm back at the compound ill fix the link.
DeleteI've clipped the rest of the story's text because at least three readers were unable to get a free look. The piece comes from the Cincy Enquirer, a very fine paper in a much underappreciated city -- a city, mind you, that Kalamazoo Katie lives VERY near.
DeleteI'm naughty, I know. But, she's been a colossal bitch to me, so my shame is limited.
Leslie K
Allow me to connect the dots in a way that I hope os accurate but it's funny enough just thinking about so I don't care if I'm way off.
DeleteKatie just sent her daughter to college and wants to remain BFF with her.
Most plausible explanation I've heard...
DeletePoor kid. I wonder how the parents were before she left for college?
ReplyDelete"The Irelands said their daughter was 'a good actor and lying.'"
ReplyDeleteSeeing as she was studying drama, we'd rather hope she was a good actor! Could this be an unintentional admission that, just maybe, she wasn't slacking off, wasn't being a crazy drug-using slut, and was instead, oh, doing schoolwork?