aitah for considerinf leaving my son in the county jail hospital over the weekend instead of paying $9,500.00 in bail?

[u/ShowerElectrical9342]

My son hit a pregnant woman with his vehicle and broke his nose and has stitches on his lip.

He was arrested and is in the county jail hospital. He wouldn't tell me how badly injured the woman is, except that she might lose the baby.

He's a careless, distracted driver who has totalled 2 cars, which his bio dad immediately replaced with even better cars!

But now his bio dad is gone (heart attack) and I don't want to enable this dangerous driving problem.

I'm overwhelmed.

He has had accidents before, and has always been bailed out.

I'm trying to get a regular lawyer because now he says she might lose the baby and sue him.

He's 19.

But no one wants me to take the time to get a regular lawyer instead of this public defender who insists I must send the bail money NOW or my son will be in jail all weekend.

Honestly, I don't know. Maybe that would be good for him. Like a wakeup call.

He didn't mention alcohol, but why else would he he arrested for a car accident?

Help! I have to move fast!

AITAH for even thinking about letting him spend a weekend in jail?

[u/itsyagirlrey]

It's fake. I just saw this movie lmao. It's a bit from the movie Thelma about an old lady who gets scammed over the phone from a fake call about giving money for her grandson to get him out of jail. Very funny OP!

She gets a call saying her grandson hit a pregnant woman with his car, that his nose is broken and he doesn't know the details on the baby, and his public defender insists he needs 10k for the bail to get him out of jail. The old lady ends up getting 9,500$ back from the "bail money." It's a really good movie, highly recommend.

[u/maroongrad → u/itsyagirlrey]

Except I know a family whose son did this TWICE as a teen and at 19? Third time? Killed an entire family. Put himself in a wheelchair so at least it won't happen again.

[u/itsyagirlrey → u/maroongrad]

The details are the same from the movie. She gets a phone call her grandson is in jail for hitting a pregnant woman with his car, his nose is broken but he doesn't know any details, and the "public defender" wants 10k. She finds out it's a scam and transfer 9,500 back to herself cause she feels bad enough for the scammer. to leave him 500.

[u/IndigenousWalker → u/itsyagirlrey]

Also look at his other posts. What a flake