Posted on 06/22/2021 4:09:16 PM PDT by simpson96
LAKE WALES, FL. – Polk County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Lake Wales city commissioner Kristen Fitzgerald, 41, on Thursday, and charged her with one count of interference with child custody (F-3) and one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon (F-3).
Deputies say Fitzgerald removed an 11-year-old child from his home without permission and threatened him with a firearm.
According to the arrest affidavit, on June 2nd, around 10:50 pm, Polk County Sheriff’s Office and Lake Wales police responded to an armed disturbance in Lake Wales.
Once on the scene, law enforcement learned that Fitzgerald took the 11-year-old boy, without permission of the child’s parents, and threatened him.
Deputies say that Fitzgerald accused the boy of touching her 13-year-old daughter in a sexual manner, but when the boy denied those allegations, Fitzgerald threatened to kill him.
During a forensic interview on June 3rd, the child told deputies that Fitzgerald had called and wanted to speak with him, not his mother. The boy told deputies that Fitzgerald arrived at his home and asked him to come outside, and that’s when Fitzgerald told him to get into the car.
The boy told police that he thought Fitzgerald was going to give him a gift for finishing the school year, but instead drove him to the ‘Honey House’ (Struther’s Honey) and confronted him about the sexual allegations.
Deputies say that Fitzgerald began to drive the boy back home, but pulled out a ‘purple handgun’ and told the boy, “You see this, I will bury you.”
Fitzgerald denied pointing a firearm at the boy, and told police that she was heartbroken when she heard the allegations from her daughter.
She remains in the Polk County Jail on no bond.
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I watched a sheriff Judd press conference on this a couple weeks ago and I’m in Vermont. This lady will do jail time. Grady don’t play.
She is a criminal and needs jail time, shes not a tiger mom.
You are nuts for applauding this behavior from an adult woman.
Thought so!! Kristin, it SUCKS TO BE YOU!
Lake Wales is a nice town if you are around the Mountain Lakes area. At least it was in the 1970s...
This mother may not have gone about this the correct way but she was protecting her daughter.
The “men” here on this site will decide on innocence or guilt based on the looks of the mother.
Let them deal with their decisions when their daughters are sexually assaulted.
Separate Case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uv629ovrqs
Go to 4:50 “Jesus don’t like that! I’d even go so far as to say he’s pissed!” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd.
Yes, I saw it and Grady did appear a might peeved.
Why would she think it’s ok to take an 11 year old anywhere without parents permission.. whatever she thinks he did? Why not go to parents or LE I wonder.
Yep. If you break the law and he has a presser over it then he likely put her picture up on the screen. He wants the Polk county people know what you did and what you look like.
I understand. She knows who the sheriff is. If she called him then he would have went and arrested that kid himself. He does sex stings and gathers about 30 creepers. Holds a presser and shows all there pictures on TV and their name and what they were doing. I don’t blame her though.
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