Child Arrested After opening Christmas Present Early

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

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.

Okay, What the F°ck. People are screwed up.

That lady needs to be sedated.

WTF is wrong with her calling the cops on her 12 year old son....

Children are just damn evil today........... 😠

Wait like everyone else for Satan Clause.

dayum. my dad would just say "ok, thats one less present you have to open christmas morning."

What you got presents??? 🙁

This is where cognitive therapy came in handy.........lol

yeah, my mom was gone and he raised us on his own, despite working 12 to 14 hour days. he really enjoyed buying us alot of presents for christmas.

Who?

who? what do you mean who?

Hmmm sounds like the boy needed more encounters with a belt. Damn spoiled children and people cant even discipline them the right way anymore. No wonder they are running amok.

lol, most police would have ignored the call, lol.

discipline the kid. that's all i could say.

My first reaction was just 🤨

But then you read on and she says that the kid is a nightmare, doesn't listen to anything and so on. One less present to open? Oh well, kid still gets the rest of his presents so he's happy.

I hoped the little shit would have got the shock of his life, but he apparently showed no remorse. Beat him instead 😂

Oh no do not beat the little boy. But replace all his presents with coal.

That kid is a moron. Not because he opened his present early, but because he couldn't do it without her noticing. When we first got a Nintendo, my mom wrapped it and we played it for days, wrapping it back up before she would come home from work, and she never knew.

This is one of the most retarded things I have ever read - to date.

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
This is one of the most retarded things I have ever read - to date.

That's saying something, Milla, considering you read the GDF quite regularly.

Originally posted by botankus
That's saying something, Milla, considering you read the GDF quite regularly.

Exactly. Thats why I think its important to highlight the ''one of'' many many retarded sentances and threads.

Originally posted by botankus
That kid is a moron. Not because he opened his present early, but because he couldn't do it without her noticing. When we first got a Nintendo, my mom wrapped it and we played it for days, wrapping it back up before she would come home from work, and she never knew.

your tax dollars at work

I think people are missing this...

She said he has shoplifted, stolen money from her, punched a police officer and is nearing expulsion from school.

Yeah, having the kid arrested is harsh. But it's not like he's some perfect kid where he has no record of doing stupid/criminal things. And this is also not including that I read in another article about this that he broke into his great-grandmother's house.

I was just coming in to mention that. It's a hopeless situation ... the mother is a complete incompetent who has utterly failed at raising her kid acceptible. The kid himself is a viscious little brat who assaulted a police officer by age twelve.

What should you do when you're stuck in a situation like this? I don't know. What would I do? I don't know, and I never plan on finding out.