9-Year-Old Girl Charged With Battery For Allegedly Punching Sister

[Nebulous]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/27/9-year-old-charged-batter-arrested-punching-sister-head_n_6233962.html

Apparently a “time out” isn’t cutting it anymore.

A 9-year-old girl in Indianapolis was arrested and charged with battery last weekend after her mother called police and reported she had punched her 6-year-old sister in the head, Fox 59 reports.

Andrea Stumpf, the girls' mother, filmed the incident and showed the responding officer, according to WTHR. That officer then “made the decision to arrest,” Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Officer Rafael Diaz told Fox 59.

Rick Whitten, executive director of Boys and Girls Clubs of Indianapolis, spoke with the station about the significance of keeping children out of the criminal justice system if possible.

“We know that the younger kids get involved in the juvenile justice system, the more likely they are to keep getting involved with the system,” he said.

Earlier this year, a father in Wisconsin incited criticism and mockery after he filed for a restraining order against a 5-year-old boy he said was bullying his daughter.

In Canada, however, officials took a more moderate approach to child discipline in September after a pajama-clad 9-year-old boy stole a city bus and took it on a three block joyride. Because of his young age, they opted not to charge him.

Thoughts?

 

[Webster]

The Canadian approach is a helluva' lot better that what those numbskulls in Indy did.

 

[beowulf]

perhaps the mother should learn some parenting skills?

 

[Sinon]

My daughter peed in our bed.

Should I have her arrested for public indecency?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

She might be the same idiot women who called 911 when McDonald's ran out of chicken nuggets.

Woman Calls 911 After McDonald's Runs Out Of Nuggets
https://www.google.com/search?q=women+calls+911+when+there+was+no+chicken+mcnuggets&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox

 

[Evil Eye]

Uhuh...

Should I have her arrested for public indecency?

Only if the bed was in public.

 

[Sinon]

Uhuh...

Should I have her arrested for public indecency?

Only if the bed was in public.

Well you can see into our bedroom via the window if you're in the building across the street.

Considering you can be arrested if someone reports you for being naked in your own home, I imagine I could wangle a public indecency charge. XD