This article was just too funny, appalling, idiotic, and eye-rolling. Hmmm...doing a little (very little) math would suggest to me that this mother might need some parenting classes. Oy!
"Boy Arrested For Opening Xmas Gift Early
Mother has kid, 12, nabbed after Nintendo Game Boy is unwrapped
DECEMBER 5 [2006]--A South Carolina boy, 12, was arrested Sunday morning after his mother called police to report that he had unwrapped a Christmas present without her permission. According to a Rock Hill Police Department report (a copy of which you'll find below), the child opened a Nintendo Game Boy, though he had been directed not to by family members. When the boy's mother learned that the $85 gift had been opened, she called cops, who charged the juvenile with petty larceny. In an interview with The Herald newspaper, the boy's mother, a 27-year-old single parent, described her son as a disruptive child, noting that she hoped his arrest would serve as a corrective to disorderly behavior at school and home."
This came from the Smoking Gun, which shows the actual police report, but other news sites have a reporting of it as well.