A teenage boy’s mother was threatened with arrest when she refused to let him accept a caution for forwarding a naked selfie a girl had sent to him.For obstruction. Picture that. If it doesn't make your blood boil, you aren't human.
Investigators later revealed he was suspected of distributing ‘indecent images of children’ after the girl sent him the unsolicited photo.Why wasn't she visited by the cops? Yeah, don't bother. It was a rhetorical question.
Police wanted him to accept a youth caution but his mother refused, fearing it could harm his career when disclosed in any future vetting procedure.Which it absolutely could. And which is why you never, ever accept one, if you're smart.
‘They wouldn’t tell me anything … it was very much guilty until proven innocent,’ the mother told the BBC.
‘I think in my head I thought someone is going to come and say, “I’m really sorry this has been blown totally out of proportion. We realise it is kids being kids.”’Sorry, love, identity politics and results-based policing - not to mention the Alison Saunders effect - mean that all your son was to these cops was an easy win.
And like most scavengers, if the prey puts up too much of a fight, they slink away...
Seven months later the original officer in the case delivered a letter saying there would be no further action.A letter. What a craven, cowardly act. Probably sent it to the wrong address, too...
Leicestershire Police said the family have not complained about their treatment.They are all over LBC now doing just that, you moron!
A spokesman said the force took ‘appropriate, proportionate and necessary action’.Here, I think you need this:
Look up those words. You clearly have no idea what they mean.
