Shaquanda Cotton Mother gives Interview to Free Shaquanda Cotton

Shaquanda Cotton's mother gave an interview to DryerBuzz in the battle to free Shaquanda Cotton. Creola Cotton, mother of Shaquanda Cotton provides interesting details on the imprisonment of her 14 years old daughter. Creola Cotton is part of a group called Concerned Citizens for Racial Equality that has made folks in Paris Texas School system uncomfortable. So uncomfortable that they used a minor incident to silence Shaquanda Cotton's mother and the group.

The controversial shoveling incident allegedly snowballed when Shaquanda Cotton nor Creola Cotton would admit guilt for their part in the incident. The incident involved an injury to Shaquanda Cotton and a failure to inform the parent in a timely fashion about the incident. A recommendation was made to impose a severe indeterminate sentence on Shaquanda Cotton as punishment for failure of mother and daughter to comply. The sentence pulled a 14 year out of school and placed her into prison for seven (7) years, an indeterminate sentence. Shaquanda Cotton's action were upgraded to criminal charges making her eligible for imprisonment.

The indeterminate sentence was a message to the mother and the child, that punishment would be handed down based on their being defiant rather than Shaquanda Cotton's guilt. In other words, a longer sentence for mother and daughter lack of compliance with what authorities requested. It did not matter if Shaquanda Cotton was innocence, Shaquanda Cotton and her mother needed to plead guilty to appease those making the request.

Charles Dudley Warner writes

An indeterminate sentence is a commitment to prison without any
limit. It is exactly such a commitment as the court makes to an
asylum of a man who is proved to be insane, and it is paralleled by
the practice of sending a sick man to the hospital until he is
cured.

Not only that the sanction handed down branded Shaquanda Cotton as a criminal for life. It tells others that Shaquanda Cotton is marked unfit to be treated in an humane manner. It tells others that Shaquanda Cotton is not to be viewed as a mere child but viewed as a threat to their quality of life.

Shaquanda Cotton does not need our sympathy, she needs her freedom now. Free Shaquanda Cotton now. Shaquanda Cotton needs this sanction removed from her and for us to write the Governor of Texas and to demand her immediate release. Write and tell the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry Shaquanda Cotton has served 365+ day to many for this minor incident. Just click on his name.


Don't let Shaquanda Cotton be another Katrina. Let us not be just outraged and do nothing. Act. Write. Do something. Free Shaquanda Cotton.

It came be done. I had written my letter. Go here and let Shaquanda Cotton know you have intervened in her behalf.


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