Dec 3, 2009 5:27 pm US/Mountain
Deputies Shock 10-Year-Old With Taser
PUEBLO, Colo. (CBS4/AP) ―
Authorities say an "out of control" 10-year-old child was shocked with a Taser and arrested by sheriff's deputies in Pueblo West. He remained in jail Thursday night.
Capt. Jeff Teschner said that the deputies involved were justified in their use of force.
He said Wednesday that the boy was not hurt when deputies took action Monday after arriving at his foster home where he was reportedly destroying property.
Authorities said the youth threatened a deputies with a pipe and a stick, and threw a piece of wood at them. Deputies decided to use a taser because the boy had cornered himself.
The boy's foster father supports the deputies' action. "A two-foot piece of pipe can do a lot of damage, I don't care who is swinging it. If they go and try and tackle him and try and take it away from him, even if he doesn't hurt them, they're probably going to hurt him a lot worse than the tazer did. I think what they did was right. I'm completely behind what they did," said Daniel Bilby, foster father.
The boy was booked into Pueblo Youth Center on suspicion of menacing with a deadly weapon.
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