POLICE STATE CANADA: Cops Arrest Father After His Daughter Draws A Picture of Him With A Gun
Man shocked by arrest after daughter draws picture of gun at school
Arrested Jessie Sansone was arrested at his daughter's school after the 4-year-old drew a picture of a gun.
Peter Lee, Record staffRelated Stories Gun leading to dad's arrest was a toy
A plastic toy gun is to blame for the mayhem that saw a man arrested at his daughter's school this week.
A Kitchener father is angry at police after he was arrested at his
child's school and later strip-searched at the police station, all
because his 4-year-old daughter drew a picture of a gun in class.
"I'm
picking up my kids and then, next thing you know, I'm locked up,"
Jessie Sansone, 26, said of his ordeal on Wednesday. "I was in shock.
This is completely insane."
The school principal, police and
child welfare officials, however, all stand by their actions. They say
they had to investigate to determine whether there was a gun in
Sansone's house that children had access to.
"From a public
safety point of view, any child drawing a picture of guns and saying
there's guns in a home would warrant some further conversation with the
parents and child," said Alison Scott, executive director of Family and
Children's Services.
Waterloo Regional Police Insp. Kevin Thaler
said there was a complaint from Forest Hills Public School that "a
firearm was in a residence and children had access to it. We had every
concern, based on this information, that children were in danger."
Sansone
said he went to pick up his three children on Wednesday and was
summoned to the principal's office, where three police officers were
waiting. They said he was being charged with possession of a firearm.
He
was escorted from the school, handcuffed and put in a cruiser. At the
same time, other officers went to his home, where his wife and
15-month-old child were waiting for him.
They made his wife come
to the police station while the other three children were taken to
Family and Children's Services to be interviewed.
At the police station, Sansone was forced to remove his clothes for a full strip search.
Several hours later, a detective apologized and said he was being released with no charges, Sansone said.
The
detective told him his daughter Neaveh had drawn a picture of a man
holding a gun. When a teacher asked her who the man was, the girl
replied, "That's my daddy's. He uses it to shoot bad guys and monsters."
After
he was released, Sansone was asked to sign a paper authorizing a search
of his home. He signed, even though he didn't have to, he said.
The
school principal, Steve Zack, said a staff member called child welfare
officials because the law requires them to report anything involving the
safety or neglect of a child.
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