Watch: Georgia Mom Takes Cops' Help To Scare Her Naughty Son

By R. Siva Kumar - 03 May '15 13:26PM

Angry mothers of misbehaving sons seem to be hogging the news nowadays.

Chiquita Hill, one mom in Columbus, Georgia, learnt that her 10-year-old son Sean was misbehaving in class, so she sought the help of the local police, according to abcnews.

She said his fifth-grade teacher told her that he was "rude and disrespectful, not listening, talking back, not doing his school work."

Even though the teacher visited him at his home, her words went "in one ear and out the other," Hill said.

"I knew I had to do something to shock him," Hill, 33, told ABC News today.

So she called the Columbus Police Department and explained what she wanted, to which the officers agreed to send the police to his home.

"[Sean] didn't believe me. ... When they showed up to the door, that's when it hit him," Hill said.

So the officers just put the handcuffs on his hands and took him to the car. One officer climbed in, flashed the lights and drove up a few inches, said Hill, "just to give him a scare."

"Everything happened so fast," Hill said. "He didn't have time to react to anything. ... He was scared."

Once he was let off, Sean just bounded upto his mother. "[Sean] gave me the biggest hug and said, 'I'll never do it again,'" she said. "I don't know what they said to him."

So after the cops left, they both sat down for a talk. "We all sat down and we talked about what happened. ... And I told him his behavior and his actions affect those around him."

"I'm glad I did this," Hill said. "He will be 11 this month. He's hitting that pre-teen age. ... I understand that he will be going through changes. ... But with all the things going on in Missouri and in Baltimore, I want to stop anything from happening while he's young and impressionable."

"I don't want to be the Baltimore mom," she added, referring to the mother who was seen on video slapping her son during the violent protests there this week. "I completely understand why she did what she did, but I don't want to get to that point with my only son."

Assistant Chief Lem Miller of the Columbus Police Department did not seem too happy with the incident. He pointed out that "our officers did that without any supervisory approval or knowledge," he said, according to dailymail.

"We totally understand that they were trying to do a good thing," Miller said, "But in hindsight, we're not in the business of pretending to arrest somebody."

"It could very well scare the kid straight, but on the other hand, it could possibly hurt them and make them think even worse of us [the police] down the road," he said. "They're very impressionable children at the age of ten."

"We're not chastising the officers for it," Miller clarified. "They thought they were doing a good thing and I appreciate that. ... But in this litigious society that we live in, we can't just go out and pretend to arrest anybody."

"We just feel like ... there would be a more appropriate way to handle that," he said. "We're not endorsing it and we discourage it from this point forward."

He said parents would be better off contacting the juvenile services, rather than the police to discipline their son.

Already, the police had helped her get some positive results. Sean's teacher called her on Thursday with "wonderful reports."

"He's doing great in class," Hill said. "He's very respectful to his peers and to adults."

"It got to him," she said. "It hit home for him."