It doesn't seem to me that anyone did this on purpose - this just makes the court look inept.
I am curious, though, that the court would be expected to be able to notify the mother, who they knew for a fact was unreachable - they were trying to locate both Ethan and his mother. I'm not sure how they were to serve her with notice if they were fully aware she was missing and they had no good address for her.
But my second questions is this. Although this is a case that was adjudicated in juvenile court, the subject of this hearing is now an adult. I'm surprised the court is required to notify the parents of an adult of a pending hearing. Additionally, it does seem they were able to notify the father, as he isn't mentioned as someone who wasn't notified.
It is strange to me that TC's attorney knew enough to be at the hearing but Tonya did not. If they were trying to do the right thing, TC would have been in court yesterday.
As I understand it, even though EC is now an adult, because he was sentenced by juvenile court all juvenile court rules must be followed until such time as the juvie judge rules to send the case to adult court.