| Three suspects show no regard for replacing stolen baby items |
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By: Lisa Marchesoni
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Posted: Saturday, June 20, 2009 1:20 pm
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In his 23 years as police officer, Sgt. Don Fanning has never encountered juveniles with “an utter disregard” of others as three boys accused Friday of stealing car seats, diapers and formula from a young mother.
Fanning testified about the lack of care the boys felt for the victim during a Juvenile Court hearing Friday.
“None of them cared” about the young, working mother and her two children, ages 2, and 4-month-old, Fanning told Juvenile Court Magistrate Keith Siskin. Fanning offered to drop a theft charge if the juveniles told him the location of the car seats, diapers and formulas.
The boys simply cursed him, Fanning said after court.
Siskin ordered the boys held in detention until another hearing June 30.
Fanning was driving about 3:09 a.m. on Broad Street when he encountered a vehicle without its headlights on. He stopped the car.
“Three bailed out of the car and ran,” Fanning said.
Murfreesboro Police chased the suspects and rounded up the three boys within 10 to 15 minutes. They found the boys stole the keys and cash from the car last week. They stole the car with the child seats Friday.
“They were pretty much playing musical drivers,” Fanning said, explaining each boy admitted driving the car.
The young mother asked police to try to recover the child seats, diapers and formula because she could not afford to replace the stolen property but the boys refused to cooperate.
All three boys have a prior record with Juvenile Court. One of the boys is on probation and a second boy is on unsupervised probation. Fanning said Murfreesboro Police detectives intended to charge the boys with more burglary petitions.
Fanning believes if the boys were released, they would commit more crimes.
One boy’s mother fainted and court stopped until Fanning helped revive her. Court officers helped the sobbing mother out of the courtroom.
Siskin said he was troubled by the boys’ lack of regard for the victim.
“That’s always a sad thing to hear,” Siskin said.
Siskin ordered them detained until June 30 when he will decide if they should remain in detention until August.
After the hearing, Fanning described the victim and her family as “hard-working people” who didn’t have money to replace the car seats, diapers and formula.
Murfreesboro Police replaced the car seats with donated ones.
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