Mother rats out six-year-old to police
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A mother in the US state of Ohio is defending her decision to call police after she discovered her six-year-old daughter had shoplifted a package of stickers.
Diane Lyons of the village of Carrollton in eastern Ohio says she wanted to teach her daughter a lesson early in life.
The 31-year-old Lyons was shopping at a drugstore on December 15 when another daughter told her that six-year-old Shiane had taken the temporary-tattoo stickers.
Lyons asked a drugstore employee to call Carrollton police. A police report says Chief Ronald Yeager took the girl to the police station, where she was released to her mother.
Lyons says she thought briefly about claiming a US$25 (NZ$35.63) reward for identifying shoplifters but decided not to.
- AP
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