美國費城一位母親因其2歲的兒子當街小便而被警察開了50美元的罰單，她表示要通過法律途徑對此提出異議。據這位母親稱，上周日晚間，她和公婆以及三個年齡為9歲、6歲和2歲的孩子出去吃飯，之后到一家服裝店閑逛。在此期間，兩個孩子提出要上衛生間，但是服裝店的員工拒絕讓孩子使用店內衛生間，而2歲的孩子已經憋不住了，只好在街邊的一根燈柱旁邊解決問題。警察發現后便給這位母親開出來一張50美元的罰單，并稱“這樣做是為了你好，說不準這附近就有個變態色狼正盯著你兒子呢”。當地警方發言人表示，他們一般都讓警員通過自己的判斷來執法，目前他們正在聯絡這名警官了解事情經過，然后才決定下一步措施。

A Philadelphia mom is peeved that police gave her a $50 ticket after her 2-year-old son peed against a street light post.

A Philadelphia mom is peeved that police gave her a $50 ticket after her 2-year-old son peed against a street light post.

“I’m absolutely going to fight it,” Caroline Robboy told NBC News on Thursday. “It was a potty-training accident.”

Robboy’s legal hassle began Sunday night, she said, when she was out with her elderly in-laws and her three children, ages 9, 6 and 2. Her husband, an ob-gyn, was on the job, delivering babies.

After eating at a Johnny Rockets diner five blocks from their home in a high-rise, the family went across the street to a clothing store.

Robboy said two of her children told her they needed to go to the bathroom, but the store operators wouldn’t let them use their restroom. They headed back to the diner, but the 2-year-old couldn’t hold it.

“I told him to go over to a grassy patch and make pee,” Robboy told NBCPhiladelphia.com. “Next thing you know I have an officer giving me a police ticket for public urination!”

The officer wrote on the $50 ticket that Robboy told her son to go in the street and never acknowledged it was an accident. Robboy then claims the officer gave her a lecture on parenting.

“He said, ‘I’m doing this for your own protection because God forbid there might have been a pervert out there looking at my son,’” said Robboy.

“Every once in a while a 2-year-old catches you off guard,” she said.

“If this were my 9-year-old or 6-year-old I would have been mortified and would have had a much more adult conversation with him,” said Robboy, a licensed social worker and sex education counselor also trained in early childhood education issues.

Robboy tells NBC10 Nathaniel is a bright child who, aside from Sunday’s misfire, is doing well with his potty training. She also says she plans to fight the ticket.

“It’s not about the $50,” said Robboy. “I want a place that feels friendly to me where my children feel safe and have positive experiences with police officers.”

A spokesperson with the police department tells NBC10 they routinely allow their officers to use their own judgment and discretion. They're currently trying to contact the officer who issued the ticket to get his side of the story before they take any action.

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