Lindsay Lohan finally begins community service stint after missing first day

SHE may have missed her first day of community service, but Lindsay Lohan has posed for a photo to show she is meeting her law-required obligations.

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014 file photo, U.S actress Lindsay Lohan performs a scene from the play, "Speed the Plow," during a photocall at the Playhouse Theatre in central London. Lohan's wreckless driving case is scheduled to be called in a Los Angeles court on Thursday, May 7, 2015, to update the judge on her progress with community service. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP, File)

SHE may have missed her first day of community service, but Lindsay Lohan has posed for a photo to show she is finally meeting her law-required obligations.

The troubled actress was last week warned by a judge she could face jail time if she fails to complete 125 hours of community service by May 28 over 2012 reckless driving offence.

The Mean Girls star has only completed about nine hours so far.

Lindsay Lohan at the Elle Style Awards 2015 in London. Picture: Getty

Lindsay Lohan at the GQ Men of the Year awards in 2014 in London. Picture: Anthony Harvey/Getty Images

Lohan, who has lived in London since late last year to perform in the David Mamet play Speed the Plow, was set to begin a whirlwind of 10-hour shifts at a Brooklyn, New York preschool on Tuesday — but missed the first class.

The New York Daily News reported the 28-year-old landed in New York on Tuesday afternoon, leaving Duffield Children’s Centre staff fumbling to explain the star’s absence.

The fading starlet did, however, make an appearance on Wednesday, posing with a five-year-old student Donovan Illery.

Lindsay Lohan reports for community service in Brooklyn. Poses w 5 yr old Donovan Illery @ child care center pic.twitter.com/M5A3T6tuyi

— Melissa Russo (@MelissaRusso4NY) May 13, 2015

So happy to be finally helping out all the kids at @WeAreBCS - I just hope that I can make a difference to their lives 🙏

— Lindsay Lohan (@lindsaylohan) May 13, 2015

In court last week, Lohan’s lawyer Shawn Holley said the former singer was having trouble completing her service in London due to travel and costs, and limits on the number of hours she can perform each day.

The judge agreed to allow Lohan to travel to New York to do the community service at the Brooklyn Community Centre, working with children, but added that all the hours must be completed by the next hearing in less than three weeks.

“If it is not done by May 28 there will be consequences,” the judge said.

Will she show up? Media outside #Brooklyn school waiting for @lindsaylohan so far no sign @ABC7NY pic.twitter.com/hPWhWYwl0k

— Kemberly Richardson (@kemrichardson7) May 13, 2015

Prosecutor Melanie Skehar said Lohan could face around 18 months behind bars if she fails to complete her community service.

Lohan was sentenced in 2013 to 240 hours of community service after she drove recklessly and lied to police following a car accident in Santa Monica, California.

The court also imposed 90 days of drug rehabilitation and 18 months psychiatric counselling during two years of probation.

But in February Lohan was given another 125 hours of community service after a judge questioned whether she fulfilled the terms of the initial sentence.

After rocketing to stardom for films The Parent Trap, Freaky Friday and Mean Girls, Lohan has been in and out of rehab with drug problems and had numerous encounters with the law.

Originally published as Lindsay Lohan finally begins community service stint after missing first day