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Penalty for unwrapping gifts early: Arrest
After boy, 12, hides his Game Boy, his mom calls police
By Monica Chen · The Herald - Updated 12/05/06 - 12:50 AM

A mother convinced Rock Hill police to arrest her 12-year-old son after he unwrapped a Christmas present early.

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.

She hoped the arrest would be a wake-up call for him. She dreads getting a phone call someday reporting he's been killed.

The boy "showed no remorse" when the police came, the mother said.

"I'm trying to get him some kind of help," she said. "He's the type of kid who doesn't believe anything until it happens."

Waldrop said the women were seeking help with a problem child. "He is a disruptive, disorderly kid."

Waldrop said he trusted the two responding officers to exercise discretion when deciding whether to arrest the youngster.

"In a case like this, if the parents and grandparents are adamant about it and they feel the child has a serious problem, I can't second-guess what the officers did," Waldrop said.

The mother told police officers that she would have the boy placed with the state Department of Juvenile Justice in Columbia at his court appearance.

Waldrop said he was not aware if Rock Hill police have ever arrested a child for unwrapping Christmas presents early.

"Yeah, it's strange," he said of the case.
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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.

She hoped the arrest would be a wake-up call for him. She dreads getting a phone call someday reporting he's been killed.
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Ok, I get why she did it, but think maybe other offences warrant such an action more than *gasp* opening a christmas present..
 
Starya said:
Ok, I get why she did it, but think maybe other offences warrant such an action more than *gasp* opening a christmas present..
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True. This shows a lack of discipline on the part of all parties concerned.
 
That's what you get when you have laws forbidding parents from spanking their childs.
 
I know, many don't agree with the spanking and the practice might be labelled as something cromagnon do, but whatever, it works.
 
If 'junior' would've gotten spanked before this happened is moot, as is him getting spanked now. It's too late for that, now. This kid is well on his way to becoming the next serial killer...
 
We can assume the "mother" is the "great-grandmother's" granddaughter, right? If I'm doing the math right, the great-grandmother became a grandma at 36 and a great-grandma at 51. She will most likely live to be a great-great grandma, maybe even a great-great-great grandma if the teen pregnancy cycle continues.
 
12 year old boy
27 year old mother (15 year difference)
Grandmother ?
63 year old great-grandmother (36 year difference)

I'm guessing that the grandmother became a mom herself at 18 and ditto the gr.grandmother.

It's young births all around, eh.
 
Professur said:
She was preggers at 15. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
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This has more to do with her lack of knowledge on how to mother at the tender age of 15, as opposed to her choices as to when to become sexually active. Put away the stray man, Prof.
 
I'm sure Prof would be glad to point out that had she made better choices about when to become sexually active, her parenting skills at 15 would have been a moot point.
 
MrBishop said:
This has more to do with her lack of knowledge on how to mother at the tender age of 15, as opposed to her choices as to when to become sexually active. Put away the stray man, Prof.
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Actually, I was pointing out that the mother isn't the first piss poor parent in that family.
 
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.
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Glad to see a proactive parent.
 
Luis G said:
I know, many don't agree with the spanking and the practice might be labelled as something cromagnon do, but whatever, it works.
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Yes, it does. Corporal punishment is an excellent deterrent for unacceptable behavior regardless of age.
 
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