Georgia mother tricks police with fake court order into kidnapping son for her
Georgia police admit that they made a mistake in the case of a 5-year-old boy who was kidnapped by his mother, who did not have custody of him.
Georgia police admit that they made a mistake in the case of a 5-year-old boy who was kidnapped by his mother, who did not have custody of him.
According to 11Alive, Victoria Chancy, the boy’s mother, gave Newnan police a fake court order saying that she had full custody, and police, believing the order to be accurate, showed up at the home of the boy’s father, Donnell Whetstone, to demand that Whetstone turn his son over.
However, once the order was determined to be false, Gwinnett County police went to Chancy’s apartment and kicked down the door where she and her son were sleeping to retrieve the boy and bring him back to his father.
“I’m still trying to figure out how to talk to a 5-year-old of what happened,” Whetstone told 11Alive. “I said his mother’s name and his face tore up, and immediately he said, ‘They took my mama to jail,’ and my heart dropped.”
Police have admitted that they dropped the ball in this case, saying that a date was changed on an old court order, and that officers didn’t check it.
“The officer acted on what he believed was a true court order,” said Chief Douglas Meadows.
But because of this unfortunate situation, Meadows says that police have made changes to prevent it from happening to anyone else. Police now have a login to the court’s record systems, meaning police can check court orders at any time.
“This is something in 42 years I’ve never seen happen before,” Meadows told 11Alive. ” You think I’ve got policies, procedures in place, you got it all covered and then something comes up. When that does you immediately take action to change that.”
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