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but when an adult decides to rob a bank, it is more than a bad choice.
Mom: Giggling bandits 'little girls that made a bad choice'
Now, if you'e not up on this story, a couple of young women robbed a bank by passing a note to a confederate bank employee. Their photos were immediately plastered all over the web and soon they were nabbed.
Now mommy of one, probably not aware of her gift for understatement, says, "they're just "little' girls" who made a "bad choice"."
Now, I don't know about you you but, to me, a bad choice might be wearing white before Easter, smoking in the girl's room, dating a boy with Satan Death Wish tattoos on his forehead, or wearing cut-offs to someone's church wedding, or voting Republican, or calling John Edwards a fa**ot. Those are bad choices, but robbing a bank seems to be a life altering decision.
Here's the story. But, my point is this, maybe if momma didn't minimize her brat's bad behavior, the kid wouldn't be looking at a felony conviction. There are some absolutes you pick up along the way, and one is that if you rob a bank, you're absolutely gonna be in a world of trouble. Mommy ain't gonna talk nobody out of detention on this one!
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- The mother of a 19-year-old arrested in a bank theft scheme said Monday that her daughter isn't a bandit, she just fell in with the wrong crowd and made a bad choice.
Joy Miller said her daughter, Ashley Miller, is sorry for what she did.
Ashley Miller and Heather Johnston, both 19, were videotaped wearing sunglasses and laughing as they appeared to rob a Bank of America in upscale Acworth on February 27.
Police also arrested a bank teller and another man in connection with the theft, saying the heist appeared to be an inside job. Miller and Johnston remained jailed Monday morning.
"I want (people) to know that her and Heather both are not bandits," Joy Miller told ABC's "Good Morning America" Monday." "They're little girls that made a bad choice."
Johnston's father, Edward Johnston, has said his family was in shock.
"God gives us free will and it's up to us what we do with it," he said. "Any adult has to make decisions and live with them -- good, bad or indifferent."
Dubbed the "Barbie Bandits" by some Atlanta media, the teens were captured by a surveillance camera handing a bank teller a note then casually waiting for money as if "it's all fun and games to them," said Cobb County Police spokesman Wayne Delk.
Authorities have not said how much money the girls took, but Delk said it is "considerable."
Mom: Giggling bandits 'little girls that made a bad choice'
Now, if you'e not up on this story, a couple of young women robbed a bank by passing a note to a confederate bank employee. Their photos were immediately plastered all over the web and soon they were nabbed.
Now mommy of one, probably not aware of her gift for understatement, says, "they're just "little' girls" who made a "bad choice"."
Now, I don't know about you you but, to me, a bad choice might be wearing white before Easter, smoking in the girl's room, dating a boy with Satan Death Wish tattoos on his forehead, or wearing cut-offs to someone's church wedding, or voting Republican, or calling John Edwards a fa**ot. Those are bad choices, but robbing a bank seems to be a life altering decision.
Here's the story. But, my point is this, maybe if momma didn't minimize her brat's bad behavior, the kid wouldn't be looking at a felony conviction. There are some absolutes you pick up along the way, and one is that if you rob a bank, you're absolutely gonna be in a world of trouble. Mommy ain't gonna talk nobody out of detention on this one!
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- The mother of a 19-year-old arrested in a bank theft scheme said Monday that her daughter isn't a bandit, she just fell in with the wrong crowd and made a bad choice.
Joy Miller said her daughter, Ashley Miller, is sorry for what she did.
Ashley Miller and Heather Johnston, both 19, were videotaped wearing sunglasses and laughing as they appeared to rob a Bank of America in upscale Acworth on February 27.
Police also arrested a bank teller and another man in connection with the theft, saying the heist appeared to be an inside job. Miller and Johnston remained jailed Monday morning.
"I want (people) to know that her and Heather both are not bandits," Joy Miller told ABC's "Good Morning America" Monday." "They're little girls that made a bad choice."
Johnston's father, Edward Johnston, has said his family was in shock.
"God gives us free will and it's up to us what we do with it," he said. "Any adult has to make decisions and live with them -- good, bad or indifferent."
Dubbed the "Barbie Bandits" by some Atlanta media, the teens were captured by a surveillance camera handing a bank teller a note then casually waiting for money as if "it's all fun and games to them," said Cobb County Police spokesman Wayne Delk.
Authorities have not said how much money the girls took, but Delk said it is "considerable."
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