Everyone has heard about the famous country western singer who abducted her son from his legal guardian and fled the state to elude authorities.
To hear Mindy McCready tell it, the fact that she gave birth to her son gives her the right to evade police and thumb her nose at the law.
McCready stole her son who was given to his grandparents (her mother) due to McCready’s inability to care for him. He was in Florida with McCready’s mother when she took the boy – Zander and fled to her boyfriend’s house in Arkansas. She was found hiding in a closet there.
She is now going on the record stating that even though it was illegal, it was the right thing for her to do. NO Mindy, the right thing for you to do was to go through the court system and win back custody of your son. There was a reason he was taken from you, abducting him from the home he feels safe and secure in sort of proves you may not be the best person to raise your son.
She is now making the news program rounds in an effort to win the sympathy vote. On ABC’s 20/20, she said:
"I know there are rules that are written down that we're supposed to follow, and guidelines that we're supposed to follow, but there's a difference between right and wrong, and right and wrong in my opinion should come first, always," McCready stated.
McCready says she's shocked that her actions could be deemed illegal – that she couldn't "ever think that me taking my own child, that I carried for nine months, that I gave birth to in the hospital by myself, would ever be breaking the law."
The singer was found three days after she abducted her son hiding at her boyfriend’s house. She claims that her son was in physical and emotional danger staying with her parents.
I am not sure a mother who feels she is above the law is the “right” thing in this situation.
So motherhood trumps the law, does it? Quite frankly, you are acting like a spoiled child stamping her feet wanting what she wants, when she wants it and refusing to obey the rules.
Mindy, if a woman has her child taken from her because she is abusing him and suddenly she decides she is no longer going to abuse him, than she should be allowed to just take the child? I think that “Mother of the Year “McCready needs to answer that question.
