03/07/2014
The other shoe is dropping in the now world-famous case of high school honor student and cheerleader Rachel Canning of New Jersey. Earlier this week, a judge rejected her emergency request for financial support and high school tuition payments from her parents.
Now, her parents are hitting back, accusing the attorney handling their daughter’s case and with whom she is staying of allowing alcoholic parties with the 18-year-old.
According to our sister website, NJ.com, Canning’s mother and father claim that John Inglesino, whose daughter is a classmate and friend of Rachel, allowed alcoholic parties and made a bad situation even worse. They also accused Inglesino of subsidizing their daughter’s lawsuit against them, "rather than providing responsible guidance in abiding by a parent’s rules"
Inglesino has acknowledged helping underwrite Rachel’s legal bills, NJ.com says.
Rachel Canning, 18, in court. (file)
The other shoe is dropping in the now world-famous case of high school honor student and cheerleader Rachel Canning of New Jersey. Earlier this week, a judge rejected her emergency request for financial support and high school tuition payments from her parents.
Now, her parents are hitting back, accusing the attorney handling their daughter’s case and with whom she is staying of allowing alcoholic parties with the 18-year-old.
According to our sister website, NJ.com, Canning’s mother and father claim that John Inglesino, whose daughter is a classmate and friend of Rachel, allowed alcoholic parties and made a bad situation even worse. They also accused Inglesino of subsidizing their daughter’s lawsuit against them, "rather than providing responsible guidance in abiding by a parent’s rules"
Inglesino has acknowledged helping underwrite Rachel’s legal bills, NJ.com says.
Background according to NJ.com: In a sworn statement, Sean Canning said his daughter’s first experience with alcohol was at the Inglesino house. "Rachel came home bragging saying that during the limo ride to N.Y., Mrs. Inglesino gave all the girls wine coolers to drink. This type of behavior we did not condone."
He said had the Inglesino family not "enabled this situation to an absurd level, Rachel may have actually learned a life lesson and returned home and kept our family whole. Instead, the Inglesino family has made a difficult situation horrible and broken apart a family. Under the guise of good intentions, they have arrogantly placed themselves in our stead an operated under the belief that their parenting style is somehow superior to our own."
Her mother, Elizabeth Canning, said in an accompanying sworn statement that her daughter’s move to the Inglesino’s home was a private matter purely between her and the Inglesinos, but charged that "the Inglesinos, while purporting to help, have actually been a tremendous hindrance in family healing."
Inglesino, a well-connected attorney and former freeholder in Morris County, did not respond to calls for comment. A woman who identified herself as his eldest daughter declined comment. But in a certification submitted as part of Canning’s lawsuit, Inglesino said he and his wife invited the troubled young woman to stay in their house because his daughter Jaime "wanted to help her friend." He called Rachel extremely intelligent.
"My wife and I remain mystified as to how the Cannings, or any other parent, could simply decide to disavow themselves of their daughter and abandon her in her senior year of high school — particularly a daughter such as Rachel," Inglesino said in the court papers. He noted that Rachel has been accepted at several colleges. And her lawsuit to get her parents to pay for college still goes on.source
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