The father of a 10-year-old British girl is raging mad after his daughter was arrested, fingerprinted and thrown in jail for two hours.
Shannon Blake was taken into custody after she slapped a man who wouldn't allow her to pet his dog.
"Shannon had been playing in the BMX park when she went to stroke this man's dog," dad Michael told the Daily Mail newspaper. "He shouted at her so she slapped him and gave him a push. My daughter has never been in trouble before. She's a bit of a tomboy but that's it."
Police say they received an emergency call from a local at the park claiming 20 young kids were attacking a man walking his dog. An officer assessed the situation and then arrested Shannon with two other boys, ages 16 and 15.
"It seems absolutely ridiculous, she was treated like a criminal," Michael continued. "I never received any information about it until more than two hours later. They locked her in a cell with a bucket if she wanted to use the toilet. They took her shoes away and the strings of her trousers. They finger-printed her and took her photo and then gave her a sandwich and half a cup of cold tea. It's absolutely appalling they can treat a 10-year-old in that way - what they did was really heavy-handed. What are they doing putting cuffs on a young girl? They should have just brought her home to me and I would have dealt with it."
We're with the police on this one. Even in the photo above, little Shannon looks like trouble.
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