College student gets stalking protection order against parents

[proud2BlibKansan]

Talk about a dysfunctional family. LOL

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In an unusual case, the senior studying music theater at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music won a stalking protection order against her mother, Julie, and father, David Ireland.

Aubrey convinced a Cincinnati judge that her parents have been harassing her. Among her complaints: that they often drove to the school, unannounced, and have accused her wrongly of promiscuity, using illegal drugs and suffering from mental problems.

The Kansas City Star attempted to reach Aubrey and her parents on Thursday. Calls and e-mails were not returned.

The Irelands reportedly admitted in court that they installed monitoring software on their daughter’s laptop and cellphone, which Aubrey likened to being like “a dog with a collar on.”

“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 said in an Oct. 9 court hearing, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.

She told the court that she asked her parents to stop. The Irelands reportedly also told her college administrators they could take her to court for mental evaluations. David Ireland was particularly worried for his daughter “because of my family history of mental health,” noting cousins who had committed suicide, he said in court documents.


Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/12/27/3984339/college-student-from-leawood-gets.html#storylink=cpy

[darkangel218]

1. Good for her.

I'm glad the judge had some sense and granted her the protection order. "Monitoring software on her laptop and cell"?? Wtf...the parents need help.

[TwilightGardener]

2. It's really kind of a sad story. The parents just sound over-obsessed with her.

She's 21, for chrissakes. LET GO!!!

[liberalhistorian]

3. These parents are cuckoo for cocoa nuts,

and I'm very glad she was able to get the restraining order. I get the feeling that the main problems are that they don't like or approve of her course of study, and they can't handle the fact that she's no longer a little kid under their control and can make her own decisions and live her own life. The parents are the ones who need the mental health evaluations, not her.

[madaboutharry]

4. There is a lot of missing info in this story.

There is something really wrong with these parents and a backstory we don't know, IMHO.

[colorado_ufo]

5. This says it all:

"David Ireland was particularly worried for his daughter “because of my family history of mental health,” . . . " The problem is his and his wife's, not the daughter's.


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[Confusious]

6. Sounds like the parents should get themselves checked

Not the daughter.

[defacto7]

8. Sounds like the parents in their family historically

and routinely drive their kids insane. Anyone hear any helicopters?

[Warren DeMontague]

7. Dirty Pillows! Dirty Pillows!

[exboyfil]

9. She must be very talented and a great student for

the school to step up with a scholarship her senior year after her parents cut her off.

[Blasphemer]

10. She seems to be a good kid and her parents need counseling

They raised a woman who used every available resource to protect herself from harassment. They should be proud. They can use the money they saved on her last year of school on therapy.

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. crazy parents. Good for Aubrey