http://tinyurl.com/ygt95s

Boy Booked for Opening Christmas Present
By SEANNA ADCOX
Associated Press Writer

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A fed-up mother had her 12-year-old son arrested for allegedly rummaging through his great-grandmother's things and playing with his Christmas present early.

The mother called police Sunday after learning her son had disobeyed orders and repeatedly taken a Game Boy from its hiding place at his great-grandmother's house next door and played it. He was arrested on petty larceny charges, taken to the police station in handcuffs and held until his mother picked him up after church.

"My grandmother went out of her way to lay away a toy and paid on this thing for months," said the boy's mother, Brandi Ervin. "It was only to teach my son a lesson. He's been going through life doing things ... and getting away with it."

Police did not release the boy's name.

The mother, 27, said that her son was found in the last year to have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, but that his medicine does not seem to help.

She said he faces an expulsion hearing at his school Wednesday. Rock Hill Police Capt. Mark Bollinger said the boy took a swing at a police officer assigned to the school last month. He has been suspended from school since then.

The boy's case will be presented to Department of Juvenile Justice officials in York County, who will decide what happens to him, Bollinger said. His mother hopes he can attend a program that will finally scare him straight.

"It's not even about the Christmas present," she said. "I only want positive things out of it. ... There's no need for him to act this way. I'd rather call myself than someone else call for him doing something worse than this."

Only lesson this kid will learn is that his Mom's a freak.

"I only want positive things out of it."

LOL

she should try not getting the kid any presents at all

27 - 12 = 15

uh...

good Lord, just saw this one from a while ago....




Parents seek answers over son's death
Aug 26, 2006

The parents of 17-year-old Liam Ashley, who was beaten to death en route to prison, say they were the ones who charged him with theft.

Ashley was found badly beaten in the back of a Chubb Security van on Thursday night. Although he was revived by paramedics at the scene, he died on Friday.

Ashley's family say his parents wanted to teach him a lesson about the consequences of breaking the law. He had taken his mother's car without permission so they had him charged him with theft.

On Thursday Ashley appeared at the North Shore District Court. The judge offered him bail but his parents chose to send him to prison as a deterrent.

But on the trip to Auckland Central Remand prison, he was believed to have been strangled and assaulted by two others in the van.

Ashley's family have issued a statement listing 10 questions they want answered, such as why was a 17-year-old with no history of serious crime or violence was transported unattended with more serious offenders?

Head of Public Prisons Harry Hawthorne says that "best practice would be that young prisoners should be separated from older prisoners. That may not always be possible."

Chubb Security says it is investigating the incident but will not comment further.

Police, the Department of Corrections and Chubb Security are all running separate investigations but no arrests have yet been made.



kid "stole" his parents car without permission, parents report the missing vehicle to teach him a lesson, kid is killed on his way to jail.

Having once been to Rock Hill SC, unfortunately, I have zero trouble imagining that to be the norm. Bass Ackwards.

People are nuts.

These things make me so pissed off. I'm sorry but if your kid's meds aren't working GET HIM TO A NEW DR AND MORE HELP!!! Don't arrest the kid.

Dumb bitch.

My kid has problems too but I'd never arrest him for opening a xmas present early.

My son's many diagnoses over the years ranging from asperger's to ADHD to sensory integration dysfunction turned out to be "very gifted awesome kid who can't stop thinking about stuff all the time."

I've lost faith in most doctors' abiltites to know what the fuck a kid is or needs. I only listen to the ones who actually spend time with him now, not the ones who read charts and jump to conclusions.

and that's why we don't send kids to prison to teach them a lesson

That first one's funny. The second one, not so much.


The first kid sounds like a brat. I'd be more in favor of returning the Game Boy and saying "well, now you get nothing" than arresting him. But the second makes for a much better story.

yeah, that first story has a lot to it. first of all, which gameboy - micro or advance? i think both are $80-something. and she paid on it for months? can you really get a payment plan on something so cheap? maybe i'm just a rich motherfucker, though.

This is the part that gets me...



It's good parenting that teaches kids lessons, not calling the cops on them. Wow.