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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People for the last time under the laws of Hawaii it is shoplifting.  It doesn't matter what you think![/quote]

Many people are not debating that they shoplifted. The larger issue is that a child was put in protective custody and there was simply no reason.

That is why laws have different consequences. The store and the police acted with little common sense. As someone said before, the punishment did not fit the crime.

A similar thing happened a few years ago when a mom took her two kids and a child's friend in the car and stopped by the recycle center. She parked, and got out and hauled her bag about 10 feet away, to the bin. A police man came by and questioned her for technically breaking the law, since she was not supposed to leave children alone in the car. Apparently he was pretty rough with her, she got very scared and he when he was questioning her, she called her husband, a lawyer, who told her not to answer any questions until he got there.

The cop promptly arrested her and the kids were taken from her. I believe she spent at least a night in jail, and for over a year there was a constant threat that she'd go back to jail and kids taken from her until the case was finally settled. Another example of things escalating when they should not have. I just hate stories like that. They don't happen often, but when they do, you realize that at any time you could be in that situation and have someone threatening to take your child. It sounds like a nightmare.

No, I wouldn't eat a sandwich in the grocery store but it's scary that something like that could escalate to your kid being taken from you. [/quote]

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