Children Handed into Police by Mom After Crime Video
Police officers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin are praising parents for turning in a group of children suspected of taking part in a robbery at a BP gas station.
One mother, going by the name Kizzy, couldn't believe her eyes when she turned on the television last week and saw her 15-year-old son in surveillance footage of the mass looting at the gas station. She then went online where officials had posted images of the suspects and identified her other 13-year-old child at the scene as well.
When she asked her children about the crime, they confessed. Kizzy, facing perhaps every parent's most feared ethical dilemma, says she did what she had to do. The next day, she took them downtown and handed them over to the police.
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"These are not the kind of kids that I'm raising to do stuff like this, and I feel like I put all my hard work and energy into my children, and for them to go out into the community and do things like that is just not acceptable," Kizzy said, according to ABC7.
Kizzy advised other parents of kids who took part in the mass looting to do the right thing and turn them in.
“If you're raising your children to go into the right direction, come forward, because it's going to continue to happen. I've seen it with other family members, they get away with it once they'll do it again,” the mother told reporters last week.
The city's mayor applauded her actions.
"We need parents to make their children take responsibility," Mayor Tom Barret told ABC7. "I'm glad to see that beginning to happen."
Kizzy's son and daughter both received citations for disorderly conduct, retail theft and breaking curfew, according to media reports.
Authorities say 22 young people took part in the looting.
