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Jail for band parent




ATTLEBORO -- When she pleaded guilty in December to stealing $13,582 from the Attleboro High School Band Parents Association, Angela Forget apologized and promised to pay the money as soon as she could.

But on Friday the music stopped for the 34-year-old former band treasurer when she was sent to jail because of allegations she has failed to make payments toward court-ordered restitution or obey other terms of her probation.

To date, Forget has made only one payment -- $100 -- which she paid on Friday in Attleboro District Court when the probation depart ment filed notice to schedule a pro bation violation hearing.

Forget pleaded guilty Dec. 30 to stealing the money to feed her gambling addition and was sen tenced to a split jail term with pro bation. She was required to get a job and attend Gambler's Anonymous meetings.

But Probation Officer Sandy Adams told Judge Gregory L. Phillips that Forget has failed to meet those obligations and asked the judge to find her in violation of her probation. Forget said she was at a counseling session in Plainville, but Adams said she attended the session as part of her routine probation checks and Forget was not there.

Adams asked the judge to hold Forget in jail pending the hearing because she could leave the area.

Forget risks being sent back to jail for up to a year and has told officials she intends to go back to her native Illinois where her mother and her daugh ter live, according to testimony at the hearing.

Her lawyer, James McCarthy, said Forget was behind $900 on her payment plan. He suggested the judge send her to jail on $1,000 bail, which could then be transferred if posted to make her payments up to date.

Phillips ordered Forget held in jail without bail and gave her until May 8 to come up with $6,500. If she comes up with the money, the judge said he will dismiss the probation department's probation vio lation demand.

Forget and her 33-year-old husband, Neil, are former Attleboro residents who now live at a motel in Plainville.

Both were charged with stealing the money. However, Angela Forget has claimed responsibility for the theft.

Neil Forget has pleaded innocent. His case is scheduled May 16 for a lawyers' conference.

 



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