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Andrew Daniel Scott
Twenty-two year-old Andrew Scott, aka Hottie Scottie, was arrested in Florence on May 11th for Third Degree Theft of Property and Second Degree Burglary of a non-residence. The Killen resident previously received youthful offender status for a non-marijuana drug arrest in February 2010.
As recently as 13 months ago, Scott's father posted on his Facebook page: How do you justify taking a child from his biological father? Laws created in a corrupt legal system are second to God's law.
God's law? As far as we know God hasn't given out any updates on his plan for families. Perhaps Andrew's troubles stem partially from feeling above man's law?
Related post: Andrew Daniel Scott of Killen Arrested
Shoalanda
It looks like he's recovering from a black eye. I thought the adoption had been finalized?
ReplyDeleteWe hadn't noticed the bruise, but it looks small. Yes, as far as we know, there's no way the child can be taken from his parents now.
DeleteWhere is Part II to your original story on Scott?
ReplyDeletePart II was on August 26, 2009: http://shoalandaspeaks.blogspot.com/2009/08/alabamas-putative-father-registry-part.html
DeleteHis arrest was finally in today's paper. I understand that he is out on bond. Home address is still his mother's. Have heard he's dropped out of UNA. I guess he couldn't get more loans due to his previous drug arrest.
ReplyDeleteI would speculate that when the nursing program wouldn't accept him, he decided to step back and look at his other options. He does not list UNA as one of his schools, and at one time he had a scholarship there. He's not dumb; he's just morally weak in character, and that may never change. Some people can't be fixed.
DeleteHis parents are in denial. Young Mr. Scott will never amount to anything as long as his parents make excuses for him. I don't believe he really wanted that child any more than I did, and I don't know any of the ones involved.
ReplyDeleteOK I think we all need to step back and think before we speak. I know both Andrew and his family. Yes he has done things in his past that anyone would regret, but this does not make him a bad person. I know for a fact that he is trying to turn his life around. What Mrs. Shoalanda fails to "speak" in her article is that these charges where from a while back, yet she is making him look like he did it recently. I think she should get her facts straight and in order before she begins pointing fingers. Also I know it seems that I am taking his side and to an extent I am, however I am not condoning his past behavior. Andrew did make mistakes, but what human doesn't. No one was perfect nor will ever be perfect. I just feel like we all have better things to do with our lives than to sit here and put down someone who is really trying. I know Andrew would help anyone that needed it, but some people like to put him down and make him look like a horrible person. South Bound, I don't know you from Adam's house cat but you have absolutely no right to say Mr. Scott will never amount to anything, because you don't know who he really is. In fact not a single one of you that have commented thus far know him or his family. All you have is some twisted view that someone just got through his public record and facebook quotes. Yes his parents are defending him because what parent wouldn't defend their child from harm. His parents aren't in denial they know full well what he has done but they just want to protect him. I am so disappointed that you people find joy in putting down others. If you or your children where in the same boat as the Scott's, you would do just the same in trying to protect yourself or your child from harm.
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DeleteJust so we know who's who here, this is Bailey Quarters filling in for Shoalanda here. Reading up on this, Scott was arrested on May 11, that's this month. I don't know when he committed these crimes.
DeleteI can say that I've known SS for many years. I don't know if this is too personal to tell or not, but here goes. She told me she had never been so insulted in her life that as a Christian she was asked to help snatch a baby for Andrew and his family. If Andrew's dad goes around talking like this, like his family are the victims, then people will eventually get the correct idea that something is really wrong there. Just my two cents.
BTW, Southbound said he would never amount to anything as long as his parents make excuses for him, not that he would never amount to anything--period. If you say, "Poor, poor Andrew. He does drugs and steals because he couldn't legally take someone's baby," you aren't helping him.
DeleteYou are so right NYOB. Andrew's a great Christian man. These people constantly putting him down must have no idea how bad it makes them look. Examine yourselves before you tear others down. End of story. "So when they continued asking Him,He raised Himself up and said to them,'He who is without sin among you,let him throw a stone at her first.'" John 8:7
DeleteYou know, RTR, you might want to tell Roger Scott that. This was his comment from April of last year--
Delete"I will go to my grave fighting for my son's right to be a father... It's a promise I made to him that I intend to keep.. Who knew that a person claiming to have a relationship with Jesus Christ has fough to take my grandson away... I don't understand that.."
Sure does sound like Mr. Scott is judging the little boy's parents' relationship with Christ. Sounds just a little more than delusional too. The little boy's parents didn't fight to take him. He was placed with them by the mother and the state. Andrew was the one fighting. And we judge criminals everyday. We have to or we wouldn't have a society where we could live and worship freely.
If you look later on in my comment above I said that yes his parents are defending him just as you would your own children. Just try and put yourself in their shoes. Just the other day, Andrew sat on my front porch reading the article out loud and was barely able to finish it he was so choked up. After reading it he said he felt like a horrible person. Is that the confession that you people want!? He is sorry for his past mistakes, he wishes everyday he could go back not do it. But I guess it wont hit home until one of your children, friends or family members does something like this and is paraded around on the internet as the next big story. And by the way Andrew Scott was never trying to "snatch" a baby. at least he had the guts to stand up and say weather or not I am the father I want to raise him. That should show a little bit of his character. And I'm pretty sure they took legal action, which is technically not trying to snatch a baby. He wanted to make up for his mistake and take care of him, but our legal system won out. Also Mrs. Quarters, if you look at my post earlier I explained multiple times that I do not agree with or condone his past behavior. Yes he screwed up, but he isn't involved in that anymore. You call this an update, but a real update on Andrew Scott would be how he is turning his life around and trying daily to walk with God and fix his past mistakes. But you all keep putting him down which doesn't help anyone. There are always two sides to every story.
ReplyDeleteCould you tell us when Andrew committed these crimes and why it took so long to arrest him, if it did?
ReplyDeleteSuppose Andrew had been successful in taking away the couple's son. Suppose his parents had been incapacitated in some way. Suppose he does have to go to prison (I'm betting he gets probation), what would happen to the little boy then? Wouldn't the citizens of Lauderdale County have a right to ask why the court made such a foolish decision to give Andrew the child?
If Andrew or Mr. Scott truly care about the little boy, why don't they put his well being ahead of their own? This little boy has two moral parents that I'm pretty sure haven't been arrested recently. He doesn't deserve to live in fear of being kidnapped.
ReplyDeleteI question the court now wondering why they tore a child away from his biological parent that was not ruled unfit. The child did not belong to the couple. End of story. Did you ever think that his actions after that may have contributed to his downward spin? Let someone take your child away and see how you act.
ReplyDeleteThe child's own "biological mother" placed him with the couple. Apparently she didn't trust Andrew. So he did "belong" to the couple. And does.
DeleteOh Shoalanda. You need to get your facts. She had no choice. She still cries about what she had to do. Please don't write what you don't know. I see that you didn't post my first post. Truth hurts I guess.
ReplyDeleteWho Cares, if you could comprehend what you read, you would know it's Bailey this week. I didn't post what you wrote since you showed your true self in talking about people who aren't even here. Yes, the truth about Andrew Scott must hurt. No, wait, I've read some of their comments on Facebook. They can't accept the truth.
DeleteApparently, she didn't know who the father was. To the best of my memory, after paternity tests ruled out two other potential fathers, Andrew came into the picture, too late to stop the adoption. It was definitely an unfair ruling considering that Andrew didn't know the baby was his until adoption proceedings were underway.
ReplyDeleteWhether one agrees with the ruling or not, whether young Mr. Scott was fit or unfit, is no longer a question because he is not raising the baby. But who is to say that he would have tried a little harder (or not) to grow up and be a dad had he been given an opportunity? None of us, that's for sure. I certainly know people who made a turn-around and are very good parents.
That being said, I don't know why, since the baby issue has been laid to rest, that his current arrest is of any more importance than the other 100 or so arrests for theft that were made.
Also, while I'm making enemies (which is not my intention), I find it hard to believe that the Scotts were making plans to "snatch" the baby.
Actually I think there were five boys taking advantage of this poor girl. Perhaps more who didn't come forward. I used the word "snatched" since that is what it amounted to. I'm sure Mr. Scott just wants a do-over in his life, but it doesn't work that way. I think all of us could feel pity for them if they would just leave a caring complete family alone instead of vowing on Facebook to rip it asunder.
DeleteI have to admit I haven't seen any FB pages about it.
DeleteAre you saying the five boys attacked her? Or did she make the same mistake five times? I don't really know anything about her.
Unfortunately, at least five boys came forward that thought they could be the father. The other four were tested before Andrew as I understand it. I think it was a case of these boys taking advantage of a young girl with a lot of problems. I remember reading some supporters of the Scotts making fun of her and saying she would have another baby to give away before long. The FB page I was reading this morning was Roger Scott's. It was unsettling to read what he wrote, but maybe that's just me. I would want what was best for the child, not just what Andrew wanted, if he really does.
DeleteWhoCaresBlog you are exactly right. None of his bad behavior began until after Andrew found out he was the biological father and the court ruled in favor of giving the child over to the adopted family. And no Shoalanda, the mother trusted Andrew and if you talked to her today she would tell you it was a mistake giving up her child for adoption. She regrets it because it is hard for her to even be around the adopted family because hers and Andrews child calls his adopted parents Mommy and Daddy. She has said herself that she gave the child up for adoption, without Andrew's consent, because she thought none of the possible fathers would step up and be the father that he needed. However after the mother had placed the boy up for adoption, Andrew found out that he was the biological father and he told her that he would have been the child's father. See this is what you don't know because you don't know HIM or ANYONE involved. Andrew Scott at the age of eighteen agreed to father his child, but he was too late. The mother has said that if she could go back, this would have been a different story. Now Andrew, his biological only gets to see pictures of his baby boy, because of things like this being posted. Andrew has sent the adopted family presents for the child every Christmas and birthday, but you want to know what the adopted parents have done? they have thrown away every one of them, because of people who write about his mistakes. He cant even see his own child and that is OK?! He has said multiple times that he wouldn't have been so rebellious and crazy had he been able to father his child. I am NOT saying that the adopted family is a bad family at all, but i do think it wrong that Andrew hasn't been able to see his own son. Not once has he been able to hold his son, to hug him, to love on him, and that is the worst pain of all for Andrew. But I can tell you one thing, when that child turns eighteen, he will want to know who his biological mother and father are. Chelsea, Andrew has NEVER mad a threat to kidnap his son. Shoalanda what I'm trying to get at is that who are you to say that if Andrew had gained custody of his son, most certainly he would not have been involved with the things that got him in trouble because he knew the magnitude of being a parent and the responsibility it was going to take.
ReplyDeleteSir, please read what I've written. I'm filling in for Shoalanda this week. I'm expressing what I feel here. I do doubt that most people feel sorry for Andrew, at least a great deal. You didn't answer my question about the timing of this arrest. On that subject, the little boy will start to kindergarten next year. If Andrew continues down this path, how would the child feel if he lived with him? Children can be cruel. No on wants him to hear from a classmate the kind of "father" he would have had. Yes, when the child is older, he will definitely know who loved him and cared for him and lived the right way for him.
DeleteI've got to add that it's pretty "bad behavior" to do a girl just because you know your buddies are. So, no, Andrew's bad behavior didn't start after the child was born.
DeleteI'm not a parent, but I've managed to stay out of jail. You don't have to be a parent to live a moral life. But I'm glad to know Andrew was forced into dating the girl, into having sex with her, into not using protection, into doing drugs, into buying or selling drugs (whichever got him arrested), and breaking into homes and other buildings. Be sure to tell the D.A. none of it was Andrew's fault.
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