Posted on 04/11/2025 10:50:12 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
So parents in the UK are now getting arrested for parenting? Unreal
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/surrey-police-uk-mother-arrested-childs-ipad-vanessa-brown/
A mother-of-two has told LBC of the “unspeakable devastation and trauma” she has experienced after being arrested for “confiscating her child’s iPad”.
History teacher Vanessa Brown, 50, spent seven-and-a-half hours in a custody cell on March 26 this year, following a claim she had stolen two iPads which were traced to her mother’s house in Cobham, Surrey.
Yet it transpired that the two devices belonged to her daughters, and Ms Brown had merely confiscated them to encourage them to focus on their schoolwork, a fact Surrey Police has now acknowledged.
“I find it quite traumatic even talking about this now,” Ms Brown recalled.
“At no point did they [the officers] think to themselves, ‘Oh, this is a little bit of an overreaction for a moment, confiscating temporarily her iPads and popping over to her mum's to have a coffee’. It was just a complete overreaction.
“It was thoroughly unprofessional. They were speaking to my mother, who is in her 80s, like she was a criminal.”
Surrey Police said a search operation for the devices started after a man in his 40s reported a possible theft, having already been called out to a “concern for safety” on March 26.
Ms Brown was taken to Staines station, where she was searched, and had fingerprints and custody shots taken before being placed in a police cell for several hours.
Surrey Police also sent officers to her children’s school, pulling her daughter out of class in the process.
Her ordeal was compounded, however, when she learned of the conditions of her bail, which would have prevented her from seeing her children on Mother’s Day.
It wasn’t until half-past midnight that Ms Brown...
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GB is done.
Sounds like a lovely place to live and raise a family. /sarc
Had the teacher and her mother been Muslim, they would have been told to have a nice day, and the police would have made them tea, and cleaned their yard for them.
Let me guess. The arresting officers remanded the girls to the custody of the nearest mooselimb grooming gang for safekeeping?
This sounds like a nasty break up, and the father of the children reported their phones stolen to get back at the mother for something. The break up of the family as the basic building block of society necessitates increased police intrusion into everyday life.
This is how a police bureaucracy behaves when it operate under a long-term, absurd, highly ideological and political regime.
I hope before GB descends into complete oblivion someone can save as many of the old classic motorcycles there.
This is none of government business unless it’s a Communist Dictatorship
“… a search operation for the devices started after a man in his 40s reported a possible theft…”
Who is this guy? Ex-husband’s boyfriend? Some random guy who’s friends with the girls?
If they were focused on grooming this would be ok
Kind of like swatting someone in the US.
Dang,......the UK is even more Effe’d up than America. And that takes a lot of doing thanks to the LEFT and woke. Dang.....
... at no point in the article do they acknowledge a dad !
“Surrey Police said a search operation for the devices started after a man in his 40s reported a possible theft, having already been called out to a “concern for safety” on March 26.”
... he is ‘a man in his 40s’.
... most likely ‘the dad’.
... I suspect the is the actual purchaser of the iPad’s in question.
... I suspect the daughters were communicating with said dad.
... It sounds like he made a ‘concern for safety’ call on March 26th on his daughters.
... It sounds like he would be the complainer on the theft.
... So the OWNER of the iPad (presumably the Dad), would be able to see the iPads were NO LONGER AT HIS DAUGHTERS HOUSES, and reported them as stolen.
They really have lost their minds over. Not just this story of course, a long string of insanity.
Yet, they will look to the US with a badly placed superiority complex…
No, no, no! Who paid for the iPads? Certainly not the kids. The iPads belonged to the mother! She provided them to her children, and was certainly entitled to confiscate the iPads.
Stupid arrogant law enforcement, especially in Great Britain where muslim illegals can rape and steal with no consequences.
Royal Enfield escaped to India before it was too late.
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