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An American mother had her 12-year-old son arrested for opening his Christmas present early.
Brandi Ervin called the police after discovering that the youngster had repeatedly disobeyed her by taking a Nintendo Game Boy from its hiding place at his great-grandmother's house and played with it.
Officers in Columbia, South Carolina, handcuffed the boy and took him to the police station on petty larceny charges.
Mrs Ervin, who picked her son up after church, said she had done it to teach him a lesson.
"He's been going through life doing things... and getting away with it," she explained.
She added that the boy had been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in the last year, but that his medicine did not seem to be helping.
He has been suspended from school since allegedly trying to hit a police officer there last month, and faces an expulsion hearing.
Local juvenile justice officials will decide what happens to him.
Mrs Ervin said she hoped he could attend a programme that would stop him misbehaving.
"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 (the police) myself than someone else call for him


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-420899/Mother-calls-police-son-opens-presents-early.html

WTF?

DECEMBER 5--A South Carolina boy, 12, was arrested Sunday morning after his mother called police to report that he had unwrapped a Christmas present without her permission. According to a Rock Hill Police Department report (a copy of which you'll find below), the child opened a Nintendo Game Boy, though he had been directed not to by family members. When the boy's mother learned that the $85 gift had been opened, she called cops, who charged the juvenile with petty larceny. In an interview with The Herald newspaper, the boy's mother, a 27-year-old single parent, described her son as a disruptive child, noting that she hoped his arrest would serve as a corrective to disorderly behavior at school and home. (2 pages)

She's setting her son up by doing this. Now he's involved in the legal system that will haunt him in the future when he go to get employment. He will probably meet people in jail, if he is convicted, that will only aid him in doing worse acts. She knows her son needs medication that works and it is because of his biochemical brain disorder that he is prone to doing this. She is an idiot just like others that have this love of calling the police as a lesson to others. But her own kid?? Wow

at 12 yrs old it wont effect him much if at all but it is always a bad idea to think your helping anyone by getting the police and the legal system involved.. her son does sound like a prick nothing a good slapping cant fix send him to go live with a strict family and do extra curricular activities where ppl are allowed to punish him as they see fit.

Someone give this lady a "Worst Parent" award

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