Police arrest boy for opening Xmas gift early, at the request of Mother

Kidd · 12-13-2006, 03:10 PM

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What is the penalty for opening your Christmas presents too early?

For one South Carolina 12-year-old, the penalty was arrest.

A Rock Hill, S.C., woman called police and asked them to arrest her son who opened a Christmas present early after being told not to, the Rock Hill Herald reported. Police went to the house and arrested the boy and charged him with petty larceny.

The paper reported that the boy's great-grandmother had specifically told him not to open his present, which contained a Nintendo Game Boy Advance. It was wrapped and lying under the Christmas tree, the police report stated.

But on Sunday morning, the gift was unwrapped and the box was empty. So when the boy's mother found out, she alerted police, the paper reported.

"He took it without permission. He wanted it. He just took it," the 63-year-old great-grandmother told the Herald.

The women said that the boy lied to them at first, saying he was unaware of where the video game system was. After threat of calling the police, the boy apparently gave the toy back to his mother, the paper reported. But the upset mother called police anyway.

Two officers responded and charged the child as a juvenile with petty larceny, although he was not jailed.

The mother told the Herald that she didn't know what else to do with her son, so she called police. The paper reported she is a single mother and has been struggling with constant behavior problems from the boy. She said her son still showed no remorse when the police came.

"I'm trying to get him some kind of help," the 27-year-old mother told the paper. "He's the type of kid who doesn't believe anything until it happens."

She said he has shoplifted, stolen money from her, punched a police officer and is nearing expulsion from school. She told the paper that she hopes this arrest will be a wake-up call for her son, because she worries about getting a call someday telling her he's been killed.

The mother plans to have her son placed with the state Department of Juvenile Justice in Columbia at his court appearance, the Herald reported.

http://www.kcra.com/holidays/10467838/detail.html

No way that can be true!!

Fresh · 12-13-2006, 03:59 PM

Yea my friend was telling me about this in class the other day, I was laughing so hard at first I thought the cops took him in because it was a felony or something I didnt know his requested it.LOL.

Kyo_Muramasa · 12-13-2006, 04:17 PM

So what.... a weak mom just can't take care of her child? Geez, what ever happened to getting beatings, I still have some of my scars from them >>; If she didn't want him to open it then she should of put it somewhere else, it's her fault for leaving it there knowing he was going to open it! This mom needs a wake up call to reality.

Fresh · 12-13-2006, 04:29 PM

Yea he needed a beating so bad that he would feel it till next Chrismas I guess that's why my mom puts the presents under the tree when everybody is asleep. I wonder if the kid even learned his lesson.

Blur · 12-13-2006, 05:03 PM

Her intentions are good i GUESS...but this is another reason why you should have to get a license before being able to have/adopt or even watch after a kid

oxyMORON · 12-13-2006, 07:21 PM

That....is pretty funny. If this is true, then anybody can be arrested for anything. ANTHING

lavoidgaskins · 12-14-2006, 12:51 PM

I heard about this. TO me it's a bunch of crap, but that just shows you how messed up the world is. I'm not sure if this went to court or not, but if it does, I really do hope the judge drop all charges.

Alex · 12-14-2006, 05:04 PM

This is hilaroius and it's the first time I have ever heard of such a thing happen as this.

And it is also funny, if he was shop lifting and doing other things and also stealing the xmas gift. His mother did a right thing

deltabtry · 12-17-2006, 10:41 PM

I would have arrested the mother for wasting my time.

Constantine · 12-18-2006, 08:19 AM

See, the mother made a big mistake here.

She bought the little **** christmas presents.

A crazy, uncontrollable child gets five across the eyes, not a Gameboy. I really don't see the whole reason why slapping your kid once in awhile for doing something wrong is so bad. I mean, there are extremes that certainly reinforce the idea of never doing it, but it's just like a lot of other things. You can drive at the speed limit or a bit under it, but if you drive too fast you can get hurt or hurt someone else and get pulled over. I know it may be an insensitive analogy, but it's accurate I believe.