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She sobbed loudly and begged the judge for leniency. She spoke, from her wheelchair, about the infant son waiting for her to return home and requested a second chance. “I won’t make another mistake,” she promised the judge.
After considering her record, however, the judge sent Mary Frodge of Warren Township off to a five-year jail sentence, ruling that she must serve at least two years before she’d be eligible for parole. The charge of theft-by-deception stemmed from Frodge’s passing of $2,500 in bad checks during 1992.
While the judge was moved by the defendant’s plea, he could not ignore her past record. Frodge had been arrested 28 times since 1976 and had 19 minor convictions for passing bad checks. She’d previously been sentenced to county jail five times, had been put on probation five times and had been fined nine times. It’s tough to give a second chance to somebody who’s already had 19 of them.
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