A Bradford woman is in McKean County Jail after allegedly attacking a scarecrow.
According to City Police, early Tuesday morning 34-year-old Jacqueline Suzanne Horton was seen having a conversation with one of the scarecrow decorations for Pumpkinfest. Horton then allegedly dismantled the scarecrow, scattering straw and stealing the clothes.
Horton was taken into custody shortly after, and is charged with theft, disorderly conduct, and criminal mischief. She is being held in lieu of $10,000 bail.
meth head obviously..
Ok can anyone say asylum
Why doesn’t the system help her get into a facility that she can live in? Obviously she can’t be left on her own in society she keeps getting criminal charges against her when she needs mental health services this is disgusting.
They closed all the facilities because the Democrats said it was inhuman
It wasn’t the Democrats who closed the facilities. It was Ronald Reagan in the 1980’s who closed the mental hospitals through the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, which also led to the explosion in homelessness.
Yes, the government has let down the mentally ill: Republicans by killing funding for mental hospitals during the Reagan Administration and the Democrats for not undoing that abomination during the Clinton, Obama, and Biden years. No one party deserves the blame.
This is the best news I’ve read all day
Seriously? Wow man. Pretty strange and sad. I’d hope that some help is provided to this person. Next time, it could be an attack on a real person with much more reaching effects.
This woman clearly needs some mental health help!! What is wrong with all you people that are making fun of her? Can you not see the fear in her face? This is nothing to joke about . I pray she gets the help she needs 🙏
But why did they get a mugshot of the scarecrow?
Is this woman receiving medical attention? She was either on drugs or has mental illness. Healthy people do not do things like this.
Is this pathetic enough to admit that we need to do more about mental illness, drugs and crime? Asking for a few hundred million friends.
Wow, alrighty then, lol
Hey folks it’s almost halloween! This is the real Wicked Witch of the West, she wants no competition this year.
She clearly suffers from mental health. Instead of loxking her up and giving her fines she can’t afford, get her mental health help. What’s wrong with people now adays, that we can’t think independently.
This is disgusting. She clearly needs help. Our system is so broken that violent offenders and drug dealers who are busted get less charges and bail than she did and for what hurting a scarecrow or being mentally ill. SMH
Instead of being in jail it sounds like she needs to be on some type of medication and getting some mental help instead of being placed in jail where they do nothing for you.. maybe she was on medication and her insurance stopped paying for it or they raised the price and she couldn’t afford it that’s happened to me or sometimes you can’t get to the doctor to get a refill because they won’t do a refill until they see you but sometimes things happen no buses or no way of getting there
Y’all making fun of her better be careful. Karma’s a bitch!!!!
Agree. I semi grew up with her and haven’t communicated in 15 years but this is clearly a mental health issue. Shes the one who was at tim hortons naked too. Mental health doesn’t get fixed or worked on in prison. She needs real help. Everyone with the jokes- you’re a bunch of imbeciles. You must be super stoked at home basking in the 0 problems you have. Must be nice.
Does anyone think she could have a mental illness instead of criminal intent? There are a few people on here that are quite rude. Try to be more empathetic. You never know the road someone is walking.
Has anyone considered that she might have a mental illness? Some of you need to learn some empathy. You never know what someone is going through till you walk a mile in their shoes.
Didn’t anyone consider that she was having a mental health crisis?
Long ago, and far away, when I carried a badge, I am quite sure that the Chief would have told me to calmly and politely as possible take her to the emergency room.
This woman should be in a hospital, not jail
Ms. Horton was seen having a conversation with a scarecrow. If your not Dorothy and not in the land of Oz Ms. Horton should not be in jail buy a mental health facility. The judge who put a $10,000 bail on her is absolutely heartless. The judge knew she couldn’t raise the $1000 needed for her release. He should have had Ms Horton immediately transferred to a mental health facility for testing and observation
She may be mentally ill or drug impaired. She needs treatment, not bashing!!!
“having a conversation” or voicing despair and loneliness? Lashing out at a symbol of happier times possibly? We all need more compassion.