Will homeschooling parents end up behind bars?
Appeals court tosses 1st sentence, orders new trial

Posted: January 11, 2009
9:44 pm Eastern

By Bob Unruh
2009 WorldNetDaily

bA German appeals court tossed out three-month jail terms/b issued to a mother and father who homeschool their children, but the ruling also ordered new trials that could leave the parents with similar penalties, according to the uHome School Legal Defense Association/u.

uWND has reported/u extensively on the case against Juergen and Rosemarie Dudek of Archfeldt, Germany, who last summer received formal notices of their three-month sentences and issued appeals.

The 90-day sentences came about when Hesse State Prosecutor Herwig Muller appealed a lower courts determination of fines for the family. The ruling had imposed fines of about 900 euros, or $1,200, for not sending their children to school

Muller, however, told the parents they shouldnt worry about any fines, since he would send them to jail, the HSLDA reported.

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