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U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson with her son, Kamani. [1]
VENTURA, California, Nov 13 (IPS) - U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if she does not agree to deploy to Afghanistan, despite having been told she would be granted extra time to find someone to care for her 11-month-old son while she is overseas. [2]
Alexis Hutchinson, 21, claims she had no choice but to refuse deployment orders because the only family she had to care for her 10-month-old son - her mother - was overwhelmed by the task, already caring for three other relatives with health problems. [3]
Alexis Hutchinson, 21, claims she had no choice but to refuse deployment orders because the only family she had to care for her 10-month-old son - her mother - was overwhelmed by the task, already caring for three other relatives with health problems. [4]
Take action to protest the treatment of single mother, Specialist Alexis Hutchinson who has stated: “It is outrageous that [the US Army] would deploy a single mother without a complete and current family care plan. [5]
Army has mom, Alexis Hutchinson, arrested and 11-month old son put into county foster care system. [6]
VENTURA, California - U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if she does not agree to deploy to Afghanistan, despite having been told she would be granted extra time to find someone to care for her 11-month-old son while she is overseas. [1]
Currently she is confined to Hunter Army Airfield near Savannah, Georgia, where she has been posted since February 2008, and threatened with a court martial if she does not agree to be deployed to Afghanistan, even though she has not found anyone to take care of her child while she is away. [6]
Hutchinson is an Army cook and single mother based at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Ga. [3]
An Army cook and single mom may face criminal charges after she skipped her deployment flight to Afghanistan because, she said, no one was available to care for her infant son while she was overseas. [4]
In anticipation of going overseas Specialist Hutchinson flew to California and left her son with her mother Angelique Hughes of Oakland, as per her Army family care plan. [6]
Hutchinson’s civilian lawyer, Rai Sue Sussman, told IPS, “The core issue is that they are asking her to make an inhumane choice. [1]
… after a week of caring for the child Specialist Hutchinson’s mother realized that she was unable to take care of Kamani on top of her other duties to her special-needs daughter, her ailing mother, and her ailing sister. [6]
Hughes said Monday she kept the boy for about two weeks in October before deciding she couldn’t keep him for a full year. [3]
Her civilian attorney, Rai Sue Sussman, said Monday that one of Hutchinson’s superiors told her she would have to deploy anyway and place the child in foster care. [4]
Sources:
[1] Army Sends Infant to Protective Services, Mom to Afghanistan …
[2] US Labor Against the War : U.S.: Army Sends Infant to …
[3] Soldier mom refuses deployment to care for baby :: WRAL.com
[4] Soldier mom refuses deployment to care for baby
[5] Environmentalists Against War
[6] Courage to Resist - Army sends infant to protective services …