News, Teen arrested for "kidnapping" (teenager, baby, parents)
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The kid, however, was an idiot. You don't leave the store with someone else's child. You take the child to the cashier or other employee and have them announce that they have a lost child.
How could the mom know that the boy was NOT trying to kidnap the child? He left the store with her. Even a teenager can be a pedofile.
All the cop had was Edwin's word that he wasn't trying to steal the kid. Well...honestly, do we expect someone who IS trying to to admit it?
The arrest was completely appropriate IMO. (Particularly when you consider all this occurred in Florida, the baby-killing nutjob capital of the free world.) Deciding whether to charge him, and with what, is up to the DA, and it sounds like he won't be. Even if he were, whether to convict is yet another story-- so the "he could get"s are a little premature.
The kid, however, was an idiot. You don't leave the store with someone else's child. You take the child to the cashier or other employee and have them announce that they have a lost child.
How could the mom know that the boy was NOT trying to kidnap the child? He left the store with her. Even a teenager can be a pedofile.
Yeah but does a 14 year old really know what to do?
Most don't. At 14 they think the right thing to do is go look for the parent.
The woman even saw the boy and walked off from him and didn't say anything to him. Plus he was there with his own mother, why would be get arrested while with his own mom for trying to find a little girls mom. Ok, he didn't follow the procedure we all know to follow but then again what procedures do a 14 year old know to follow besides "X X A B B {spin joystick} HIGH SCORE!"
Yeah but does a 14 year old really know what to do?
Most don't. At 14 they think the right thing to do is go look for the parent.
The woman even saw the boy and walked off from him and didn't say anything to him. Plus he was there with his own mother, why would be get arrested while with his own mom for trying to find a little girls mom. Ok, he didn't follow the procedure we all know to follow but then again what procedures do a 14 year old know to follow besides "X X A B B {spin joystick} HIGH SCORE!"
Really? At 14, the kid has never heard of stranger danger and never thought he *might* be a stranger to the child?
I don't think he should have been arrested, necessarily, but I do think he lacked common sense.
The child probably should not have gone with him either.
Ridiculous. What justice is being served by charging this kid?
I know right?
He's a 14 year old who thought going to look for the mom was the right thing to do, his intentions were in the right place just his way of trying to help was the wrong way.
You can't fault someone for trying to help the only way they know.
Arresting the boy was going too far. They should have checked the security tapes first to see how exactly it happened.
If we go by that logic then all of us are strangers to kids who get lost in stores and we should just stay away from all of them and not help.
You should bring them to the store employees who can then call for the parent. You certainly should never walk out of the store with a child who is not your own.
And parents should also make sure their kids know that if they are lost they head to the front of the store or a cashier's station.
Maybe the teen's mom should have been with him the whole time, being a female and all. If they both were looking for the mom, w/ the female holding the little girl's hand, it probably would have been a different outcome. You can never be too careful...but I doubt this boy will be charged.
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