Child Arrested for Opening Christmas Present Early

[Little Blue]

Aside from the "charging a kid with a crime for something so petty"

That would be why he was charged with petty larceny .

Sure, it was a waste of resources, but who's to say the police would've used that time productively anyway...

Exactly, it was his present, so he wasn't technically stealing it.

So you can never steal from your parents? You can. An example is breaking and entering while parents are away on holiday and taking their tv and a ton of other stuff. Its happened to my aunt and I think her son got community service for it, or 3 months in jail. I can't really remember the specifics.