Lehigh Acres, Fla. While pumping gas at a nearby 7 Eleven Gas Station a Floridian woman witnessed a very disturbing site . A Sheriff’s Deputy was arresting a 5 year old boy and the mother was watching and consenting to the act. The woman, who requested to remain anonymous, snapped a picture from her cell phone, started to cry and said “That's not a way to treat a child, that's not a way to teach a lesson to a little boy,” The mother explained how she had requested to her friend and 15-year old veteran of the Lee county Sherriff’s office to help her teach her son a lesson with a scare. The deputy complied and arrested the boy. “I hope it scared him to figure out that he's not going to play with matches or lighters again,” said the mother. “That was the whole point of it — to make him afraid that he was going to go to jail.” The discipline was too much said Child psychiatrist Omar Rieche. “No matter what the details are, when you see that picture, it says so much,” he said. “The age in which this is being done is inappropriate, so it's misguided.” But the boy's mother said she'd do it again if she had to. The actions of the deputy were not protocol explained the Lee County Sheriff's Office. added by: BRAVATRAVELS
