Library Sends Cops To 5-Year-Old's House For Overdue Books

http://www.neuroticy.com/ - A five-year-old girl from Charlton, Mass. burst into tears after a local library sent Police Sergeant Dan Dowd to her house to retrieve the child's two overdue library books, CBS Boston reported.

"I thought it was way overboard," the girl's mother, Shannon Benoit, said. "I closed my door, I looked at my daughter and she started crying." According to the report, Shannon's daughter thought Dowd was going to arrest her.

Sergeant Dowd told the station that, although long-overdue books are a misdemeanor, he didn't want to go to the girl's house.

"Nobody wanted to, on this end to get involved in it," Sgt. Dowd told CBS Boston. "But the library contacted us, and the chief delegated, and apparently I was one of the low men on the totem pole."

The Benoit's books had been overdue for "several months," but were quickly found and returned at the police officer's request.
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[utahaztec]

Nice to know there is no real crime in Charlton, Mass. What next? Arresting pre-school kids for writing on the sidewalk with chalk? On the other hand, what kind of parents lets their child not learn responsibility by taking their borrowed library books back on time? Come on people.