People v. M. C.

Respondent, M. C., appeals from an order which held her in contempt for failing to attend school and which sentenced her to six months in the Kane County Youth Home. The contempt order, dated February 19, 1980, found that respondent had willfully violated a prior order which ordered her to attend school pending dispositional hearings. The contempt order by its own terms stayed the commitment to the youth home on condition that respondent attend school; it further ordered that if respondent’s principal and a worker of Juvenile Court Services determined that respondent had an unexcused absence,…