'It’s just asinine': 10-year-old boy sentenced to 3 months’ probation for urinating in parking lot

In Mississippi, Tate County Youth Court Judge Rusty Harlow has given a ten-year-old boy an unusual sentence for urinating in a parking lot: the child, as part of a plea deal, will serve three months of probation — and must write a two-page book on the late basketball star Kobe Bryant, according to the Associated Press.

Prosecutors charged the boy, who is Black, with being "in need of supervision," AP reports, but threatened to upgrade the charge to disorderly conduct if the child's family took the case to trial. Passing on a trial, the family accepted a plea deal.

Attorney Carlos Moore, who represented the boy in court, told AP, "I thought any sensible judge would dismiss the charge completely. It's just asinine. There were failures in the criminal justice system all the way around."

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Moore and the child's family are both speaking out about how the case was handled.

According to AP, "The child's mother has said her son urinated behind her vehicle while she was visiting a lawyer's office in Senatobia, Mississippi, on 10 August. Police officers in the town of about 8100 residents, 40 miles (64km) south of Memphis, Tennessee, saw the child urinating and arrested him."

AP adds, "Officers put him in a squad car and took him to the police station. Senatobia Police Chief Richard Chandler said the child was not handcuffed, but his mother said he was put in a jail cell, according to NBCNews.com."

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Read the full Associated Press report at this link.