Mother Arrested for Child Truancy

A Han­ford woman found out the hard way that keep­ing her chil­dren out of school has seri­ous con­se­quences. Lor­rainne Cuevas, 34, was sen­tenced in a Kings County court­room to 180 days in jail after plead­ing guilty to vio­lat­ing the state’s chronic tru­ancy law. In 2008, 218 tru­ancy cases were brought before a judge in Visalia alone. But Cuevas is one of just a hand­ful of par­ents in the state to serve jail time for break­ing the tru­ancy law.