Potty training can be incredibly hard for both parents and kids. Patience can often run thin, but two Florida cops have taken their frustration to an extreme level. The parents, a lieutenant and a detective sergeant, allegedly handcuffed their 3-year-old son to "discipline" him after he was struggling with potty training back in October. Lt. Michael Schoenbrod of the Daytona Beach Shores Police Department told a caseworker from the Department of Children and Families that he took his son to police headquarters and put him behind bars, the Daytona Beach News-Journal originally reported, citing body-cam footage.
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Lonnie Groot, a former city attorney, reportedly sought out records talking about a police officer putting a child in a cell. Additionally, he looked into investigations mentioning “alleged child abuse by an officer.”
“This whole matter just does not pass the basic smell test from a transparency and governmental openness perspective,” he wrote to city attorney Becky Vose, according to the News-Journal.
Another former police officer from Daytona who is a self-described civil rights activist requested the findings of the standards probe into the couple's actions, and was told it would cost several thousand dollars to access.
“It’s a severe matter of public interest when you have strong allegations of that kind,” he told the News-Journal. “Rumors are being brought to you by fellow law enforcement… and you want to make sure the stuff they’re saying isn’t true.”
