The family of a 7-year-old boy from New York is suing police for $250 million after handcuffing and interrogating their son for ten hours after was believed to have stolen $5, according to reports.
Wilson Reyes and his mother, Frances, are seeking $250 million dollars for what they say was verbal, physical, and emotional abuse - amid a laundry list of other allegations.
"Imagine how I felt seeing my son in handcuffs," Wilson's mother, Frances Mendez, told the New York Post. "It was horrible. I couldn't believe what I was seeing," she said.
Reyes allegedly punched another kid in the face and robbed him of $5 a few days before the December 4 arrest. Once implicated, he was pulled out of his third-grade class room and allegedly falsely imprisoned for 10 hours in cuffs at school and the 44th precinct.
Robbery charges against the boy were later dropped, and the NYPD, though it disputes the accusations in the suit, is investigating the incident.
"While the lawyer's claims are grossly untrue in many respects, including fabrication as to how long the child was held, the matter is nonetheless being reviewed by the department's Internal Affairs Bureau," Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne told ABC News.
© 2017 Jobs & Hire All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission.
