![]() Several blogs and other websites in Illinois and beyond picked up the story and amplified it, such as BLNNews, Massachusetts Reddit and TurtleBoySports, to name a few.Ĭarpenter said it was interesting that 332,000 people viewed a video of Mikey at the police station on one website, World Star Hip Hop. “What may be interesting to see is that we may see the social media coverage get it national attention.” “I guess it’s not odd that it doesn’t get picked up in other national-level papers, yet it sees tremendous amount of social media coverage,” Carpenter said. ![]() ![]() He studies and teaches social media trends.Ĭarpenter considers it unique that a local story with fairly minimal news coverage snowballed into a story that attracted so much online attention. Nate Carpenter runs the Social Media Analytics and Command Center (SMACC) at Illinois State University. Other websites picked up the case, mostly through social media shares. Once those stories were posted online on the Pantagraph’s website and elsewhere, they took on a life of their own. If Cadena wishes to pursue his custody case in Illinois, he likely faces arrest, though his attorneys are appealing the contempt order and are trying to move the case to Massachusetts and to federal court. Massachusetts Police arrested Michael Cadena in early October and retrieved the boy to reunite him with his mother. McLean County Associate Judge Lee Ann Hill held Cadena in contempt of court and sentenced him to six months in jail. He refused to attend multiple child custody hearings with his son. He left Illinois with the boy without the court’s permission in March 2017 and went back to live in Massachusetts. Michael Cadena filed for custody in 2014. Pantagraph coverage of the case continued this year when the father tried to gain custody of the boy. “The fact that she wanted to be a parent again I think was a factor in her favor, and it was one of the components of the probation that (the judge) wanted to see that she could do that,” Brady-Lunny said.īrady-Lunny added most women in prison have children, and judges try to avoid separating children from mothers. She received a sentence of probation after Buck convinced McLean County Judge Robert Freitag she turned her life around.īrady-Lunny said she believes the fact that Buck was a mother of two young children might have influenced the judge’s decision to keep her out of prison. Buck pleaded guilty to felony drug charges. The state removed her two children from her care. Pantagraph reporter Edith Brady-Lunny started closely following the case in 2016 when police arrested Buck on charges she helped her former boyfriend run a methamphetamine lab in their Bloomington apartment. Mikey Cadena's mother recently regained her child after a legal struggle dating back to shortly after Amber Buck gave birth to Mikey Cadena. "If you find a video that's been viewed by millions of people, it kind of falls into this fallacy of might makes right." ![]()
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