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Monday 2 January 2017

5 year old was so desperate to go to school, he got his father arrested

When most children like to stay home on weekends and holidays, one 5-year-old boy from Pennsylvania recently proved, that not all children like to stay home and not go to school on these days. This child was so eager to go to school on Saturday that at 7am, he went to his father who was still sleeping, woke him up and asked him to take him to school. His father, Forty-three-year-old Jeffrey Wagner said he told his son not to worry, that it was the weekend, and to go back to sleep. Afterward, Wagner admits that he, too, fell back to sleep.
Undeterred, Mitchell got himself ready, walked a block to the bus stop and waited for the school bus, but when the bus didn’t arrive, he set off for school on foot. CBS Pittsburgh reports that a motorist spotted the child and called police, who then picked up the boy and called his father.

Now his father faces child endangerment charges after the little boy walked nearly two miles to school in near-freezing temperatures Wagner waived a preliminary hearing Thursday and will face the charge in county court.

According to Pennsylvania law, a single instance of a child endangerment can result in up to five years in prison, even when it's classified as a misdemeanor.

A felony charge can result in up to seven. At the end of the day, it will be up to the court to decide whether or not the 43-year-old father's seemingly innocent blunder is truly deserving of spending half 5 years away from his family.




Source: CBS Pittsburgh

10 comments:

Sucre said...

I wonder y they don't lock doors. I just can't understand.
Plus no discipline cos I don't see my kid going out anyhow after one or two spanking

Unknown said...

Dem no dey lock door??? Linda take note!

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Henry JBO said...

Na wa oo... Check out for that kid.. I'd like to follow up and see what he becomes.. LoL

Oghenetega said...

Eeeyah.. Omokomo
This is so Funny...
School must be Fun 2 Him.

Unknown said...

onisolenu omo! is u dat go school pass

CHERYL (aka FROM GLORY to GLORY) said...

See Gobe!!! I pray he Dsnt get jailed

Long Live LIB

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Anonymous said...

Hmmm...our own Wole Soyinka also took himself to school as a little child of that same age or thereabouts. This is how it all starts. #AkeChildhoodMemoirs#

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