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Justice for Shaniya!!!!
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I wasn't sure where to put this, but as I just read it, I had to put it somewhere.
This is so ridiculous to me. They took their 3 year old away for 18 hours over a complete mistake in overlooking paying for a sandwich...
http://www.khon2.com/mostpopular/st...d-over-5-sandwich/h-yUAH_SuEOvm_PZfXUcZA.cspx
Safeway's response to this story:
http://www.khon2.com/content/news/d...wich-arrest-story/uLPZumLt2kW04FANSLiNXQ.cspx
This is so ridiculous to me. They took their 3 year old away for 18 hours over a complete mistake in overlooking paying for a sandwich...
http://www.khon2.com/mostpopular/st...d-over-5-sandwich/h-yUAH_SuEOvm_PZfXUcZA.cspx
A couple's three-year-old daughter was taken away from them for 18 hours after being arrested for forgetting to pay for a $5 sandwich while grocery shopping.
"We walked a long way to the grocery store and I was feeling faint, dizzy, like I needed to eat something so we decided to pick up some sandwiches and eat them while we were shopping," she says.
Leszczynski who is 30-weeks pregnant, her husband Marcin and daughter Zophia loaded up a shopping cart and paid for $50 worth of groceries. But forgot about the $5 sandwich.
"It was a complete distraction, distracted parent moment," she says.
That's when store security stopped them, and asked for their receipt.
"I offered to pay, we had the cash we just bought the groceries."
Instead she says the store Manager called police. The couple was taken to the HPD main station and arrested for 4th degree theft. Zophia was taken into custody by Child Protective Services.
Safeway's response to this story:
http://www.khon2.com/content/news/d...wich-arrest-story/uLPZumLt2kW04FANSLiNXQ.cspx
Safeway has issued an updated statement about our story about a Makiki couple who was arrested over a $5 sandwich.
Safeway says "it appears we may not have handled this matter in the best possible way and we are taking the situation seriously."
The couple had their three-year-old child taken into state custody after they were both arrested.
The family has been reunited.