Released on: March 11, 2008, 11:27 am

Press Release Author: Pittsman Newsroom

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Press Release Summary: When the Crestwood Police arrested Treffly Coyne, a mother
who was taking her daughters to donate some money to the poor, they thought nobody
would notice. They were wrong.

Press Release Body: Crestwood Illinois March 11th 2008

Treffly Coyne is the kind of mother who raises kids who take it upon themselves to
collect spare change to donate to the poor.

The police in Crestwood Illinois call her a criminal.

On December 8th of 2007 Ms. Coyne drove to the local Walmart at the request of her
children who had collected $8.29 in change, mostly pennies, and wanted to drop it in
the Salvation Army bucket.

Ms. Coyne was proud. So proud she got out of the car to snap a few photos with her
daughters aged 8 and 9 and their friend, also 9. Coyne parked right in front of the
Walmart about thirty feet away from the bellringer. She left her youngest daughter
who was sleeping, locked in her Volvo station wagon at the curb. The car was not
running, the alarm was armed, the child was deep in a slumber.

Then the Crestwood Police arrived.

Coyne and her children returned to the car about two minutes later. She was away
from the vehicle for less than 4 minutes. Her child was still sleeping.

Treffly Coyne was handcuffed and taken to jail in the back of a police car.

She was charged with child endangerment and obstruction of justice. Her sleeping two
year old was taken into protective custody of the police.

Unfortunately, the three other little girls, horrified to see their mother arrested,
were not taken into protective custody. They were completely ignored by the
Crestwood Police and walked away terrified, crying and left on their own.

The irony is that Treffly Coye has to stand in front of a judge on March 13th in
Bridgeview Illinois to answer to the charges.

The Crestwood Police do not.

\"My family was warm and safe and together just doing a little good deed until the
Crestwood Police arrived to help\" said the father Tim Janecyk. \"My wife is jailed,
our child is taken from us, and they call her a bad mom but they abandon three
little girls right there.\" Janecyk doesn\'t understand how the police can charge his
wife with the crime of leaving their two year old safetly locked in a car for three
or four minutes, yet the police seem to be immune from prosecution for endangering
the other girls that night.

\"My children were never in so much danger until the Crestwood Police arrrived on the
scene.\" Janecyk stated.

The Crestwood Police and the village officials aren\'t talking, nor have they ever
publicly defended the actions of their police.

It seems that Treffly Coyne has been labeled a criminal by the Crestwood Police
because even though she never went into the Walmart, even though she was only thirty
feet away, even thought she was gone two or three minutes, the police believe
Treffly Coyne could not have been looking at the car all of that time. In other
words, they claim she left the child unattended.

If Treffly Coyne is convicted of child endangerment at her trial on March 13th, here
are some things that every mother does with a child in a car that will make them
criminals:


Returning a shopping cart to the cart return.


Mailing a letter.


Filling a car up with gas.

Treffly Coyne was charged with a misdemeanor. She could have chosen to plead guilty
and she would probably have been hit with a fifty dollar fine. You would never be
reading this story.

Treffly Coyne is not the kind of mother who will teach her children to back down
when she knows they have been wronged. \"It was after I talked to the kids when I got
their mom out of jail that I knew where this was going\" Tim Janecyk said \"The first
thing those kids said to me was \'dad, what the police did to mom was wrong\' I knew
they needed to see us fight this.\"

Mothers everywhere might want to wish Treffly Coyne good luck at her trial. This
little case has far greater implications on parental rights in Illinois and perhaps
the nation.

Something is wrong when the law in Ilinois will make every mother a criminal.

The trial is March 13th in Bridgeview Illinois at 1:30 pm.

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