Story: Hayden Mom Whisked Away While Baby Cries

Kendra Goodrick was handcuffed and whisked away this afternoon as her infant son, Jameson, cried in the hallway outside a Coeur d’Alene courtroom. The 29-year-old Hayden woman was in court today to ask that the 18 months she spent on probation be counted toward a prison sentence she never expected to complete. Kootenai County Chief Deputy Prosecutor Marty Raap told 1st District Judge John T. Mitchell that the decision wasn’t Mitchell’s to make. Idaho’s Court of Appeals recently ruled that the judge didn’t have the legal authority to place Goodrick, who had been convicted for dealing meth, on probation in January 2006.

Taryn Brodwater’s story here