2:00pm Thursday 29th July 2010
By Emily-Ann Elliott
Hundreds of Sussex parents have been taken to court for not sending their children to school.
71 parents have been prosecuted in the county in the last three months alone after persistently failing to ensure their children went to classes.
Among the cases heard by magistrates were a girl who attended only one in every 20 lessons and other children who had failed to attend school for months at a time.
Many parents were fined or given conditional discharges and one parent was even electronically tagged and given a curfew.
Magistrates also ordered some parents to carry out community service.
East Sussex had the highest number of prosecutions, with 147 in the last academic year.
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