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So, my name is Kelly Williams-Bowlar. I live in Akron, Ohio.

Back in 2007, Kelly was working full-time, raising two daughters while also attending college,

studying to become an educator.

I was newly divorced and I was in college and I was just trying to make my way.

Kelly's daughters were getting bullied in their school. And then, one day, while Kelly was working and her girls were at home, their house was broken into.

After that, she didn't want her daughters spending time there by themselves, so they often stayed nearby with Kelly's father, in a much safer town, which also happened to have a much better school.

And so they made a decision.

My father lived in the suburban area of a town by the name of Copley Fairline.

So we thought it would be okay if I was to enroll my daughters into my parent school district.

So what I did was I put my father's address on their form.

So they were there the first year, and everything was, you know, fine.

They were really excelling.

My kids were basically the only black kids in the classroom.

In the following year, I received a letter stating that they had clear and convincing evidence

that I did not live in the district and that they had hired an investigator

to follow me around for like two weeks.

I guess they wanted to make sure that they live in the district.

So that June, the judge wrote me a letter and just said, remove them.

So we did. I removed my daughters.

18 months later, I received an indictment, and so did my father.

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