JOHN CARLOS FREY:

Timothy's wife, Kristy, had also gotten tickets for two traffic infractions and both were ordered to appear in the Childersburg municipal court. The Fugatts told the judge about their hospitalized son and were both found "not guilty", as these court documents show. But the judge ruled that the two still had to pay "court costs" of about $500.

During this period, Timothy Fugatt says he was spending so much time at the hospital with his son that he couldn't hold down a job, and with his wife also not working, they couldn't afford to pay the court costs… so their case was turned over to (GRAPHIC) Judicial Corrections Services, a private company that collects fines for the city.

Fugatt says that Judicial Corrections Services, known as JCS, told him that he and his wife could be jailed if they didn't pay what they owed.