Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-71.141.99.140-20130613055136/@comment-5355525-20130613214134

OldBid wrote: Maybe going to jail for the watches wasn't her first time in trouble with the law, so she'd have had a juvie record AND gone to jail/had Henry at 18.

Thinking about it, when the cop goes to cuff her he asks if she knows her rights and she said yes, implying that she'd been through it all before!

Emma was released from foster care as an adult from the state of Mass. Their age of conscent is 16. That means she was released on Saturday, October 23, 1999. Which means she had exactly 1 year and three months to be on her own commiting crimes before she meets Neal in January of 2001. (Tallahassee). Phoenix, Arizona is where the original crime took place. The age of consent in Arizona is 18. This is why Emma was considered a minor at the time of her arrest in Portland, Oregon. She was then extradited to Arizona for prosecution and imprisoned for 11 months, where she gives birth to Henry on Tuesday, October 23, 2001.

This offense, alone, would have given her a "juvie" record in the state of Arizona.