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244: Panicked Mom Calls 911 Claiming Her Son Is Airborne In A Homemade UFO: The Infamous Balloon Boy Hoax

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The Haney Family's Decision to Lose Their Kids

The Haney's pleaded guilty on November 13, 2009. Mayumi was sentenced to 20 days in jail and her sentence would be completed via two days a week of jail supervised community service. They were also ordered four years of supervised probation and the judge banned them from receiving any kind of profits from the hoax. Richard decided that he couldn't risk his family like this. As he couldn't imagine, me and me being ripped away from her home and her kids. Miami, did you actually think you could lose your kids in all this? My focus was in a whole family together.

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