A woman from Florida, USA , has denounced that her 6-year-old granddaughter was arrested last week after behaving badly in the classroom. Subsequently, the girl was transferred in a police patrol to a juvenile detention center where they took her fingerprints and took several photographs.

The youngest, who has been identified as Kaia Rolle , studies first grade at Lucious and Emma Nixon Elementary in Orlando , Florida.

His grandmother, Meralyn Kirkland , has told local television WKMG-TV that the class incident was the product of a girl's medical problem, suffering from sleep apnea.

Due to lack of sleep, Kaia was misbehaving on Thursday in class and was then taken to the principal's office where a staff member allegedly grabbed her wrists to calm her down. That was when Kaia began to squirm to get away and ended up kicking the employee .

At that time the police assigned to the school, Denis Turner , intervened and handcuffed the girl to transfer her to the juvenile detention center.

Kirkland recalls that he received a call from Turner to notify him of the incident. The grandmother told the television network that Turner did not seem to understand his outrage at his granddaughter's arrest. The policeman allegedly told him: " Well, I have sleep apnea and I don't behave like this ."

"How was she arrested?" she asked. And the officer replied that the girl had kicked a person and " was being accused ."

"They told us we had to wait a few minutes because Kaia was being fingerprinted , and when he told me that it was like he was hitting me a ton of bricks," Kirkland said. "No six-year-old child should be handcuffed, or go in the back of a patrol car to be taken to a youth center and fingerprints and a photo taken for a police record," said the grandmother.

Another 8 year old boy arrested

The girl returned home that same day. On Friday, in a statement to Orlando.com , the little girl said: "I felt sad because my grandmother was sad, and I really missed her."

The police officer involved in the incident now faces an investigation because apparently " it is not the first time that he arrests a minor without following the proper protocol ."

Orlando Police Department officials have said that Kaia was one of the two children Turner arrested that day; The other was 8 years old .

According to the regulations of the police department, officers must request the approval of their surveillance commander before arresting anyone under the age of 12, but in this case, said Sergeant David Baker Turner did not.

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