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Premier defends school after arrest for gun drawing
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TORONTO — School officials in southwestern Ontario who called authorities after a four-year-old girl drew a picture of her dad holding a gun shouldn't be condemned for their actions, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Wednesday.
The girl's father, Jessie Sansone, was handcuffed, strip-searched and told he was being charged with illegal possession of a firearm. His pregnant wife -- at home with their 15-month-old daughter -- had to go to the police station while their other three children were interviewed by Family and Children's Services.
Police searched their Kitchener, Ont., home, but the closest thing they found to a firearm was a toy gun.
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But the school clearly overreacted and should apologize to Sansone for his ordeal, said Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak.
"I think it sends a chill through all of us as parents that somebody would have to go through that," he said.
"That because his four-year-old drew with a crayon a picture of him with a gun, that the father ends up being strip-searched and the kids temporarily taken away -- that's heartwrenching and that's chilling."
While all adults have an obligation to act in the best interest of a child, the Sansone family was subjected to an "intrusive process" during the investigation, said NDP Leader Andrea Horwath.
"I don't think anybody should hesitate if they think a child is seriously in trouble to send the alarm bells out," she said.
"I think the way that we react to those alarm bells needs to be done in a way that doesn't trample on other people's rights and is done in a respectful way." |
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