14 Year Old Kidnapper? - Comments

What in the flipping world? Wow, that's pathetic. (Sorry this comment is months and months and months late)

Don't you find it disgusting how some cops find arresting and falsely accusing people a fun game?

[b]What the?[/b]

This is not fair at all.

I would have done the same thing. The kid was trying to help!

just because he's 14 and he tried to help a 3 year old doesn't mean he needs to go to juvy. those officers are just plain dumb.

Is it so crazy a thing to help someone? It seems to me that our society has drifted so far away from good principals, that when they find a boy helping a little girl, they automatically think he's doing something wrong.

I think you mean "minor" rather than "minority," but this is a very good article. I hope the boy is found innocent.

He was only fourteen, and only trying to help! The police are mindless and really need to stop and think before they try to act like hot-shots. Edwin was only trying to help, and thinking the girl was lost was only an accident. The world is such a cruel place.

OMG that's sad.

@cosmic love: those children should have been put to death.

On this article however, I think if the child's parents aren't pressing charges they should just drop it.

No Good Deed goes unpunished, apparently. :| What a fucked up world.

That's worse than pathetic. That's crazy. He's a fourteen year old who was trying to help. That cop should be fired.

Is it such a foregin concept to people now that there is such a thing as tying to help someone?

@cosmic love that is the most horrific story I have ever heard. I hate how the criminals were being treated as victims. I'm 13 I wonder if I could get away with killing two adults?.....

There are more pressing matters for the police to be worrying about that a 14-year-old kid who didn't mean any harm.
Honestly, it's pathetic.

aww, poor Edwin. Doing a good thing and then, being accused of a crime.

He didn't even take the girl off the premise. He took her too the doorway, where he knew the mother would -have- to walk through, and asked every woman who walked past. To be honest, that's the best/fastest way to reunite someone with someone they've lost, especially in a store that huge.

If i were the little girl's mother, i'd at least check the parking lot- however briefly- before calling the police.

this is just bull crap. the kid was trying to help, he didn't know she wasn't lost. WTF people. there are murderers, rapists, and far worse people released into the streets and some haven't even been caught yet, and they're gonna prosecute an fourteen year old kid for trying to help a three year old find her mother. Our police forces anymore are so desperate that they'll do this? What, they ain't good enough to catch real criminals so they prosecute innocent children?

Shit. :/ Talk about unfair.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Bulger

I think this incident should be taken into account, however rare.