Friday, March 18, 2005

5-Year-Old Cuffed, "Arrested" in Florida

5-Year-Old Girl Cuffed After School Outburst
St. Petersburg, Florida 5-year-old girl was cuffed and put in back of a police cruiser after an outburst at school where she threw books and boxes, kicked a teacher in the shins, smashed a candy dish, hit an assistant principal in the stomach and drew on the walls...Her hands were bound with plastic ties, her ankles in handcuffs."I don't want to go to jail," she said.No charges were filed and the girl went home with her mother. While police say their actions were proper, school officials were not pleased with the outcome.
She was definitely "detained","seized",and maybe you could call it a "defacto arrest" since she was cuffed and placed in a police cruiser...I wonder if she was read her Miranda Warnings?

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