Mother Gets Arrested For Confiscating Teen Daughtes iPhone

[Doc Reeves 6434]

Seems like it’s mostly the ex-husband being a huge piece of shit and the teen girl just being your average terrible human. 

Fuckin kids, man:

 

A Michigan mother has avoided criminal charges for "stealing" her daughter's cell phone as a form of punishment.

In a shocking case of miscommunication, Jodie May was arrested on May 11—the day before Mother's Day—after her ex-husband called police saying she had stolen an iPhone 6 from her daughter. May was taken to a holding cell and released two hours later on a $200 bond.

The ex-husband claimed to police that he owned the phone. But May said it was a Christmas gift from the man to her daughter. It took just several minutes for the assistant prosecutor to confirm that the daughter was the owner of the phone.

On Tuesday, the charges against May were dismissed by the Ottawa County prosecutor. She is now demanding answers about how the case went as far as it did. "I was just being a mom, a concerned parent and disciplining my daughter," May said, according to Wood TV.

"I think it's ridiculous. I can't believe I had to be put through it, my daughter had to be put through it, my family. I'm very surprised, but I'm very happy with the outcome."

May was charged with misdemeanor larceny and larceny by conversion. Both charges had a maximum punishment of 93 days in jail.

Ottawa County Assistant Prosecutor Sarah Matwiejczyk conceded that the case should be thrown out. "I've had an opportunity to discuss this case with the victim in this case, or at least the person we believed owned the property," Matwiejczyk said in court. "The mother defendant being the mother of the minor child, I believe that changes the case significantly," the assistant prosecutor said. "Therefore we're requesting that the charges be dismissed."

At the time of her arrest, May was nursing a four-week-old baby. She pleaded with the officer to let her turn herself in on Monday, which he ignored. "He had told me that he was going to arrest me, and I asked him if I could turn myself in on that Monday by myself, that I had a new baby," May said. "She wasn't taking the bottle yet."

May claims the prosecution knew it was her daughter's phone "the whole time." "It was an easy question to have answered."

Defending lawyer Jennifer Kuiper-Weise said this was always just parental discipline. "We knew it would come across that way," Kuiper-Weise said. "The case was authorized on a probable-cause basis, and unfortunately at times there are misdemeanor cases that are not thoroughly vetted. Unfortunately Miss May was a victim of that.

[RPM 26328]

Took 5 months for the DA to figure out it was BS. Nice touch refusing to answer questions about it.

[Doc Reeves 6434]

5 minutes ago, RPM said:

Took 5 months for the DA to figure out it was BS. Nice touch refusing to answer questions about it.

Yup. Total hack job

[Call 393]

Due to budget cuts they were unable to work overtime to solve the case sooner. 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13515]

Why does it matter that she was arrested the day before mother’s day?  Are police supposed to give people a break on Hallmark holidays or birthdays?   Today is national guacamole day, can you come back and arrest me tomorrow?

[demos 3004]

Just don’t buy them a phone.

[Parliament 14272]

Defeated?

[DoobieWah 1453]

Charge the father with filing a false police report.

[Pato del Muerto 52535]

3 hours ago, Call said:

Due to budget cuts they were unable to work overtime to solve the case sooner. 

Do you want them working 15 hour shifts after what happened to that poor officer in Dallas?