Balloon Boy Parents Are To Plead Guilty
Balloon Boy Parents Are To Plead Guilty to October’s Colorado’s balloon boy hoax.
The parents, Richard and Mayumi Heene are to plead Friday the 13th, in Larimer County Court, will plead guilty to offenses for creating a hoax that their son had flown away in a large weather type balloon.
Mayumi Heene will plead guilty to an offense of false reporting to authorities, a misdemeanor of the lowest level…in other words, a slap on the hand.
Richard Heene is expected to plead guilty to a felony offense of attempting to influence a public servant.
Though the Heenes could and rightly so. receive jail time for the charges, the prosecutor has recommended probation for the two hoaxsters.
The threat of deportation for Mayumi Heene was a factor in the plea deal negotiation, according to her attorney.
Here is the issue, Mayumi Heene is a citizen of Japan and any felony conviction or certain misdemeanors would result in her deportation, even though her husband and children are Americans.
The state has expressed concern over the welfare of the couples children, and the ultimate threat of taking the childrens’ mother from the family and deporting her to Japan is what is saving Mrs. Heene.
For those Baby Boomers, that do not remember or missed it…On October 16th, 2009, a large silver balloon came loose from moorings in the Heenes’ yard and floated over Colorado.
Mayumi Heene called 911 and stated that their son Falcom, age 6, was inside the balloon craft.
Millions of people across the country watched the saga on television for nearly two hours as military aircraft tracked the balloon in the air and rescuers chased it on the ground. Thousands of dollars where spent on the so-called rescue. I say So-called, since Falcon was never in the balloon craft. Instead he was hiding inside the house in the attic level.
Mrs. Heene later admitted the whole thing was a hoax and that Falcon was actually safe in the Henne home, the whole time.
Court documents released in October, stated that the couple hatched the plan around two weeks before the incident and “instructed their three children to lie to authorities as well as the media regarding this hoax.”
Their whole motive was to make the Heene family more marketable for future
media interests. But it seems to have back fired because Lifestyle has taken the show that they appeared in, on Wife Swap , off the air.
So the “Balloon Boy Parents Are To Plead Guilty” to the Balloon Hoax in Colorado. For the full story, go to CNN News.
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