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Arrested Jessie Sansone was arrested at his daughter's school after the 4-year-old drew a picture of a gun. |
KITCHENER — A Kitchener father is upset that police arrested
him at his children’s’ school Wednesday, hauled him down to the station
and strip-searched him, all because his four-year-old daughter drew a
picture of a gun at school.
“I’m picking up my kids and then, next thing you know, I’m locked up,” Jessie Sansone, 26, said Thursday.
“I was in shock. This is completely insane. My daughter drew a gun on a piece of paper at school.”
The school principal, police and child welfare officials, however,
all stand by their actions. They said 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.”
Their concern wasn’t based on the drawing alone, he said.
Neaveh, the child who made the drawing, also made comments about it that raised more flags.
Sansone thinks police overreacted. He didn’t find out until hours after his arrest what had actually sparked the incident.
He said he went to the school Wednesday afternoon to pick up his
three children. He was summoned to the principal’s office where three
police officers were waiting. They said he was being charged with
possession of a firearm.
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