Thank God Ashley Todd is free at last!
A McCain campaign volunteer accused of making up a story about being robbed and assaulted in Pittsburgh by a man who disliked her McCain bumper sticker will enter a program for first-time offenders.
Under the deal announced in court Thursday, 20-year-old Ashley Todd will be released from jail and required to undergo mental health treatment. Her record eventually will be expunged as long as she goes to treatment, stays out of trouble and keeps authorities apprised of her whereabouts.
Todd, of College Station, Texas, has been jailed since Oct. 24, when police say she admitted making up a story about being robbed near a Pittsburgh bank and then assaulted a man who scraped a backward letter “B” into her cheek.
Todd, who was charged with making a false police report, did not have to enter a plea.
Police say Todd couldn’t explain why she invented the story.
Maybe her therapist can help her explain why she did it. My guesses are either multiple personality disorder or transient global amnesia. Severe mental trauma like the impending election of our first black president could trigger that you know. That might be enough to make anyone carve backwards letters on their face and imagine a rape fantasy with a large menacing black male thug.
But in any event, at least she won’t have a criminal record hanging over her head for the rest of her life, and isn’t that the most important thing? And she won’t have to miss mid terms or this weekend’s kegger! Who says there’s no good news out there in the world anymore?
