Army Mom Confined To Base After Skipping Deployment To Care For Baby

Single-mother Alexis Hutchinson refused to deploy to Afghanistan on Nov. 5, she said, because she didn't have anyone to take care of her infant son. Now she's confined to the Georgia base where she is stationed, facing criminal prosecution by the Army.

On Thursday, Hutchinson's lawyer, Rai Sue Sussman, said she was told by an officer that the Army planned to ship her client to Afghanistan on Sunday for a special court-martial and that she could spend a year in jail there. But Sunday came and went, and Hutchinson remains at Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield outside of Savannah, Ga. "That's only because I took it to the press," said Sussman. The Oakland Tribune jumped on the story on Friday, and others followed. WHAT SHOULD BE DONE WITH THIS CASE? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/16/army-mom-confined-to-base_n_359726.html