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| Dad goes to jail for 4-year-old daughter's drawing | ||
| 2012-02-27 | ||
Please note that this happened in Canada...
After Jesse Sansone's 4-year-old daughter drew a picture of a gun, cops handcuffed the clueless father and dragged him off to jail. It was there that the dad was stripped of his clothes and searched by the authorities. Sansone was never charged with a crime.
"He uses it to shoot bad guys and monsters," teachers say the girl explained. The father says he doesn't own a gun. Nor does he kill monsters. My guess is that the father might into video games. I've played some which were rather violent (the F.E.A.R. series for example, half life, etc...). "I'm picking up my kids and then, next thing you know, I'm locked up," Sansone, 26, tells The Record out of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. "I was in shock. This is completely insane. My daughter drew a gun on a piece of paper at school," he says. After seeing the image in question, the school's staff became shocked as well. So much so, in fact, that they rang up child welfare officials and local law enforcement and arranged for them to meet the girl's father at the end of the school day. By that evening, Sansone had been handcuffed, whisked away to jail and forced to remove his clothes so he could be subjected to a strip search. Authorities took all three of Sansone's children and dragged them to Family and Children's Services to be interviewed. His wife, Stephanie Squires, tells The Record that authorities never explained themselves. "He had absolutely no idea what this was even about. I just kept telling them. 'You're making a mistake,' " she says. Despite her pleas, the ordeal went on for hours. Sansone says he was scared and was told he would be charged with possession of a firearm. The problem was, he says, that he doesn't own a gun. After being held for hours, Sansone was eventually freed from jail and was asked to authorize a search of his home. Though he didn't have to comply, he says he did so anyway. Authorities did not recover any weapons in their search (or monsters Proving that the Sampson home doesn't have any mirrors. ). His wife says they knew they wouldn't. The police, she says, acted on an assumption and nothing else. "Police chose to arrest Jessie here. Nobody wants something like this to happen at any time, especially not at school. But that's out of my hands," Zack explains. Zack is the school Principal. Ultimately it was his decision to call in the police and children's welfare over a simple kids drawing. Old Zack is also in dire need of being FIRED for lacking even rudimentary common sense. Sansone and his family are left wondering why the investigation carried out as far as it did, however. When The Record followed up on the story days later, Waterloo Regional Police Inspector Kevin Thaler told them, "We had every concern, based on this information that children were in danger." The information is now being called into question after Thaler adds that investigators never saw the drawing. In short - Waterloo Regional Police Inspector Kevin Thaler is lying. They arrested him with *no* evidence - not even the drawing - simply on the word of a school administrator. Neither has Sansone or the school's superintendent. Police add that the strip-search was necessary since it was a firearms-related incident. And the guy wasn't even charged. I don't know how it is in Canada but isn't this false imprisonment? | ||
| Posted by:CrazyFool |
| #2 If they'd been real police, they'd of arrested the principle for being too stupid to be allowed in public. But since they're not cops, just thugs, they obeyed orders from their Supreme Master of Politically Moronically Correct Stupidity. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division 2012-02-27 23:59 |
| #1 Being its Canada he will have no useful legal recourse.... but .. being Canada there is a good chance Zack takes winter vacations to Florida. Perhaps he .... |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2012-02-27 23:14 |