This is absurd, and tells you everything that needs to be known about what’s wrong with this country.
Only in America, can tax payer dollars be wasted and a 14-year old boy be put on trial for allegedly stealing a .65 cent milk carton from his school according to the New York Daily News.
Ryan Turk was slapped with petit larceny for swiping the drink from the Graham Park Middle School cafeteria, even though he was enrolled in his former school’s free lunch program.
Ryan, who is now a high school freshman, was also charged with disorderly conduct when he refused to go to the principal’s office after the incident.
The teen turned down an offer of nonjudicial punishment through a diversion program, opting to to go through a criminal trial instead in November, according to the Washington Post.
Hopefully trying to embarrass the powers that be — Turk and his family have decided to take the case to trial.
“My son is not going to admit to something he did not do,” Ryan’s mother, Shamise Turk, told the paper.
The charges come from a May 10 incident, when Ryan was pulled out of the lunch line by a school officer who spotted him taking the milk carton.
Turk was charged with larceny for attempting to “conceal” the milk and suspended from school for being uncooperative with school officials.