10-year-old Mississippi boy arrested, jailed for peeing behind mom’s car

A ten-year-old Mississippi boy was arrested and hauled off to jail for public urination — and his mother is pissed off.

Latonya Eason was at an legal professional’s workplace in Senatobia, simply south of Memphis, for authorized recommendation Aug. 10 when a cop informed her he caught her son Quantavious peeing behind her automobile, WHBQ reported.

“I used to be like, ‘Son, why did you try this?’ He mentioned, ‘Mother, my sister mentioned they don’t have a toilet there,’” Eason informed the outlet. “I used to be like, ‘You knew higher, it’s best to have come and requested me if they’d a restroom.’”

She mentioned the officer informed her Quantavious might get again contained in the automobile and that he would simply give a warning, however a number of different cops then confirmed up, together with a lieutenant who mentioned the boy needed to be hauled to jail.

“No, him urinating within the parking zone was not proper, however on the similar time I dealt with it like a father or mother and for one officer to inform my child to get again within the automobile prefer it was OK and to have the opposite pull up and take him to jail. Like no,” Eason informed WHBQ.  

“I’m simply speechless proper now. Why would you arrest a 10-year-old child,” the irate mother added.

Quantavious mentioned he was scared when the cop swooped in on him.

“I began crying somewhat bit. They took me down there and obtained me out of the truck. I didn’t know what was taking place,” he informed the outlet. “I get scared and begin shaking and considering I’m going to jail.”

The boy, who was not cuffed in the course of the ordeal, mentioned he was held in a cell and later turned over to his mother.

He was charged with little one in want of providers, Eason mentioned.

“That might actually traumatize my child. My child might get to the purpose the place he gained’t need to have an encounter with the police interval,” she informed the outlet.

Eason posted a photo on Facebook of her son within the again seat of a patrol automobile.

In a lengthy statement, Senatobia Police Chief Richard Chandler cited the state’s Youth Court docket Act, which he mentioned permits regulation enforcement to file referrals towards youngsters as younger as 7 if they’re “in want of supervision” or 10 “in the event that they commit acts that will be unlawful for an grownup.”

“The necessity to transport youngsters from a scene will depend on a wide range of elements and the provision of cheap alternate options. On this scenario, an officer personally witnessed a 10-year-old little one committing an act in public that will have been unlawful for an grownup underneath these circumstances,” he wrote.

The highest cop famous that the officer didn’t see a father or mother on the scene.

“The mom was positioned at a close-by enterprise shortly thereafter and he or she was suggested that her little one was going to obtain a Youth Court docket Referral for this matter,” he wrote.

However Chandler additionally acknowledged that “underneath these circumstances, it was an error in judgment for us to move the kid to the police station for the reason that mom was current at the moment as an inexpensive various.”

He added that “errors like this are a reminder on this occupation as to the continuous want for coaching and refreshers on the assorted subjects that we encounter every day.”