Team Infidel
Forum Spin Doctor
[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) - A woman who allegedly instructed her two young daughters to steal a neighbor's dog was arrested on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and grand theft. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]Nora Vasquez' arrest Wednesday came a week after her daughters, ages 7 and 9, told their elementary school principal they snatched the missing mutt on their mother's orders. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]A witness to the daylight dog-napping earlier this month told investigators that he saw two girls jump out of an SUV and grab the pooch from a neighbor's porch while a woman shouted at them to hurry. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]"We wonder why our children wind up the way they do," said Antioch Police Lt. Pat Welch. "It's unbelievable someone would take a 7- and 9-year-old and encourage them to do that and think it's appropriate behavior." [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]Vasquez, 35, acknowledged she told the girls to get the dog, a 1-year-old Chihuahua-Pekinese mix named Guppi, but told investigators she thought the pet was in danger from another dog nearby, according to Welch. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]Vazquez was released on $20,000 bail, Welch said. The Associated Press could not find a listed telephone number for her. The sisters first came under suspicion in Guppi's disappearance when a school librarian noticed one of them reacting strangely to a sign the dog's owners posted offering a reward for [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]Nora Vasquez' arrest Wednesday came a week after her daughters, ages 7 and 9, told their elementary school principal they snatched the missing mutt on their mother's orders. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]A witness to the daylight dog-napping earlier this month told investigators that he saw two girls jump out of an SUV and grab the pooch from a neighbor's porch while a woman shouted at them to hurry. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]"We wonder why our children wind up the way they do," said Antioch Police Lt. Pat Welch. "It's unbelievable someone would take a 7- and 9-year-old and encourage them to do that and think it's appropriate behavior." [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]Vasquez, 35, acknowledged she told the girls to get the dog, a 1-year-old Chihuahua-Pekinese mix named Guppi, but told investigators she thought the pet was in danger from another dog nearby, according to Welch. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]Vazquez was released on $20,000 bail, Welch said. The Associated Press could not find a listed telephone number for her. The sisters first came under suspicion in Guppi's disappearance when a school librarian noticed one of them reacting strangely to a sign the dog's owners posted offering a reward for [/FONT]