“I just want to progress now, I don't want to fall back”: Abby Catt was 18 when her family recruited her to rob banks; now she's trying for a fresh start.
Abby Catt was just a teenager when she began helping her father and brother rob banks in Texas. After struggling with being in and out of jail over the past six years, she says she feels like her life is finally moving in the right direction.
Hayden Catt and his father entered the bank wearing disguises, with pellet guns drawn, while his sister waited outside in the getaway car. The Catt family got away with a garbage bag containing $70,000 that day. Scott Catt pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery and accepted a sentence of 24 years in a Texas prison. Hayden Catt accepted a plea deal with a 10-year sentence. Abby Catt accepted a plea deal with a five-year sentence. But instead of sending her to prison, Fort Bend County, Texas, Sheriff Troy Nehls decided to keep Abby Catt at the county jail.
“Our number one requirement was that she attend church on Sunday morning,” Susie Gregory told “20/20.” “We said, ‘School night, you really need to be in by 10:00 because you're going to have to get some homework done. And on — you know, on the weekends, you need to be home by midnight.’ … Those were our rules.”
Then finally, after several days of Abby Catt’s failing to show up back at Gregory’s house and ignoring her phone calls and text messages, Gregory said she told Abby Catt she was changing the locks. Gonzalez, already a convicted felon, eventually pleaded not guilty to two counts of aggravated robbery. He is expected to go to trial this fall.
“She called and said she was being released… I didn't hesitate to go down and...be there for her, to bring her home,” Voss said. “I was hopeful...and she went off the rails quickly.” “And I just worry about him,” she continued. “Because he's really got to be strong when he gets out. He has no idea. He has to be so strong…life out here is just different from in there."
“I think that he's found the same faith and redemption that I have here as well,” Hayden Catt said. “He did the best job with me and Abby that he could. He lost his way. That's for sure. We've had a lot of time [these six years] to think about that — what went wrong.”
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