A Georgia mother was taken into custody after officials claimed she told her child to steal someone’s personal belongings at a seafood restaurant earlier this month.
Kenya Butler, 27, was charged with theft by taking and contributing to the delinquency of a minor for the March 2 incident. It happened at The Juicy Crab in Newnan, about 39 miles from the city of Atlanta, Fox 5 reported.
Police said Butler ordered her daughter to swipe a purse at an empty booth. Security footage from the news station shows the 7-year-old quickly grabbing the black bag before hiding it under her denim jacket. Law enforcement was able to identify Butler after Fox 5 ran the story.
“After the story aired in the media, we were able to identify Kenya Butler as the offender in this case,” Newnan Police Det. Taylor Dalton explained.
Butler and the group she was with dined and dashed from the establishment. They left behind a bill that was more than $500. Per the outlet, police are looking to track down a man responsible for the tab. He is seen in the footage sporting black jeans and a white T-shirt that says, “Fake Love, Rich Sex.”
Butler was released after paying a $2,300 bond. Her daughter was not charged. According to a Georgia-based law firm, an individual is usually charged with contributing to a minor’s delinquency when they “knowingly and willfully encourage, cause, abet, connive, or aid a minor in committing a delinquent act.” If found guilty, the person could face up to 12 months behind bars.
People on social media slammed the mother for allegedly putting her child up to the crime.
“Look at the example you have set for your children now [they’ll] probably have to be raised by somebody else, until you get yourself together…” one user wrote. “Did you know that one of the Ten commandments is do not steal we pray for you, now you’ve made this bed hard for yourself, I hope and pray you get some help ….!”
Another person reacted: “What a mom…of all good things to teach… she’s teaching and training up child to steal, commit crimes. Hope one day, [they] both won’t be visiting each other in jail. Sad skipping out on the bill. Hope they find him and put him in jail too.”
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I’ll preface this by saying I don’t “hate” anyone and am absolutely not racist. As an RN of 30 yrs, I’ve tenderly cared for folks of every color. However, I DO hate the culture that teaches generational, perpetual victimhood, with the “you owe me” attitudes, lack of respect for traditional marriage and sexual abstinence beforehand, and a two parent household. I hate the social stigma that mocks attempts to earn good grades as “tryin’ ta be white”. I hate the culture that’s too damn lazy to take advantage of 60 YEARS of government handouts and quotas to get a college degree; that would rather sell drugs and fantasize about becoming a rap star or sports playing millionaire. I hate the culture that ignorantly teaches their plethora of illegitimate offspring from different absentee sperm donors, that all the violence and crime and sexual/domestic abuse they witness is all whitey’s fault. I hate the culture that teaches it’s young that hard, honest work is for chumps; that the system is rigged to keep them down; that there’s no hope in education, and postponing the gratification of their base instincts and desires to gain a brighter, more prosperous future is a waste of time. I hate the culture that whines and cries and blames everything and everyone for their own failures when its all so unnecessary. The selfish idiots in this story who possess a collective broken moral compass are the stereotypical examples of the culture I hate. MLK Jr. would spit on the content of their character!
A black man told me once that his girlfriend who was 21 had four children because the government gave her money.If that is why some have kids then they should not receive any , money.But the things some leaders do to get votes is so evil. Thus is not helping people.This is the destruction if generation s who think the government owes them a living
This woman should lose custody of her kids. I would guess she already has a record this isn’t the first time she has done something illegal. Don’t give this so called mom multiple chances while her kids are moved to different foster homes or worse put with the family that raised this disgusting mom, I’m sure they’re just as bad.
all cameras and video equipment are racist. Always give criminals a dark complexion. Glad AI is going to straighten this all out. We all know it is the White Supremacist and Christian Nationalist that is communist Amerika’s real problem
What a group, and with the pictures as clear as they are, I am sure their families must be proud. Can’t decide who the biggest loser is in this group. Is it the Mom who has decided to teach her child, how to be a thief, or the man who decided to eat like a pig with friends and family, and then leave without paying? Know they got the mom, and now hoping the man is picked up, locked up, and now will let the entire world see what a piece of …. he is…….