Family Claims NYPD Cops Handcuff and Interrogate Boy, 7, over Missing $5
By: Fox News
Updated: January 30, 2013
This kid was no killer -- but some callous Bronx cops sure treated him like one.
Instead of earning himself a simple trip to the principal's office, a terrified 7-year-old boy was hauled out of class, handcuffed like a hardened criminal and "interrogated" by police for a grueling 10 hours -- all over a playground dispute involving $5, his family is charging.
"My son was crying, 'Mommy, it wasn't me! Mommy, it wasn't me!' I never imagined the cops could do that to a child. We're traumatized," Wilson Reyes' distraught mom, Frances Mendez told The Post last night.
"Imagine how I felt seeing my son in handcuffs!'' she said. "It was horrible. I couldn't believe what I was seeing."
The bizarre overreaction by cops came after the child had been accused of swiping $5 from another student after school.
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