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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. The boy's great-grandmother had specifically told him not to open his Nintendo Game Boy Advance, which she had wrapped and placed beneath the Christmas tree, according to a police report. But on Sunday morning, she found the box of the popular handheld game console unwrapped and opened. When the boy's 27-year-old mother heard about the opened gift, she called police. "He took it without permission. He wanted it. He just took it," said the 63-year-old great-grandmother. Both the great-grandmother and the mother asked the boy on Sunday where the present was. The boy replied he didn't know. When the mother threatened to call the police, the boy went into his room and got the Game Boy, the report stated. She called the police anyway. Two Rock Hill police officers responded to the home and charged the boy with petty larceny. He was charged as a juvenile and released the same day, said police spokesman Lt. Jerry Waldrop, who added the boy was never held at the jail. "We wouldn't hold a 12-year-old," he said. The Herald is not identifying the boy or his mother and great-grandmother because of his age. On Monday night, the mother said she had her son arrested because she didn't know what else to do. She had the child when she was 15, the woman said, and has been a single mother struggling to earn a business degree. She said the boy likes attention and has a history of bad behavior. He has shoplifted from stores and stolen money from her, she said. The boy has also been inching toward expulsion from school, she added, and even punched a police officer last month. He was arrested for disorderly conduct in that incident. |
QUOTE (Tsijiang @ 8 Dec, 2006, 14:47) |
from experience i can tell u that foster homes are way worse. |