Sorry, too long ago. To the best of my memory I was searching on Mackenzie’s original name and came across a local FB group that discussed her mother’s legal travails. I do remember the poster had a screenshot of the police report. I don’t have a position in this, Mackenzie, her mother, the hospital nurse, UPenn, I believe they are all grifters.
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Personally, I find it kinda sad that the Wily Fdn would use Mackenzie to tout their own organization.
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I’m glad Wily are supporting her, when her parents don’t and a lot of people (who don’t know her, but go by UPenn administration’s aggressive attacks on her character) also have decided that they know all the facts, and this girl must be guilty of everything possible.
Wily must have decided that she is exactly the kind of person, that they are there to help.
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Did you read the article with the explanation of why they are using her?
A great many students would qualify as lacking the financial and emotional support of their families in attending college.
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But very few would have been removed from their homes because a state agency found that home to be abusive.
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Most foster children do not have the chance to attend college. That is why there are special programs for them. Very few come from affluent families or private schools.
Agreed and even fewer are 25 years old and have an undergraduate degree from Penn.
“The Wily Network provides a critical safety net for these Scholars as they navigate college independently.”
While we can debate her prior circumstances, she doesn’t seem to currently require a “critical safety net”.
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Which only speaks to how intolerable the state agency found conditions in this particular home and how little this particular mother cared about keeping her daughter.
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I wonder if they are paying her Oxford costs. Do they often pay grad school expenses for adults?
If they want to, then that is what they want.
The article is ambiguous-they say she “would be” but not “is” a Wiley scholar. I am not at all sure of the point of the story-they would have supported her 7 years ago? They do not now? Or maybe they do?
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I will agree with you, that it is not stated that the foundation does support this student….they just say that she is the type of student that could be a Wily scholar.
I find it interesting that the foundation would say the following.
Mackenzie was placed in foster care as a high school senior because she was experiencing domestic abuse at the hands of her mother and her mother’s boyfriend.
If I recall correctly, the legal judgments did not support that statement.
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yes I did. They wrote a whole article on public, i.e., insufficient information, that basically said, she’s not eligible for our program bcos she did not attend a college in our targeted geographic area, but just ignore that fact and think about all the great things that we could offer her IFF she did come to Boston for college. In other words, look at us and support us anyway. They are using Mackensie’s sitch to publicize themselves.
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Except that they are not there to help her. They clearly state that she did not attend a Boston-area college, so she is ineligible for their help.
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The case was dismissed against the mother. It doesn’t change that that was the reason she was originally placed in social service’s care or that custody remained with SS until she aged out of the system.
When she’s first placed in custody, a judge has to sign the order finding there is cause for the placement. She had no standing to ‘press’ the charges and if others decided to drop the case, that is what happened. Kids don’t have a lot of power.
No different than if you are mugged and the charges are dropped. Doesn’t mean you weren’t mugged. The case was dropped, but it doesn’t mean she wasn’t abused.
I think in Mackenzie’s case, she was 16 and by the time the case made it through the program, she may have been going to age out. They had a placement for her, a school that allowed her to remain, she was safe and not bleeding. You have no idea how happy the department of social services is to dispose of a case this easily. They don’t really care about charges or judgments if the kid is safe.
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Why is a Boston charity using her case? As noted above, they cant help her, and never could. This is just bizarre
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Feel free to ask them and you can share what they say.