Youth witness wrongly jailed, lawsuit contends
(World News USA)

An Arkansas deputy prosecuting attorney ordered the jailing of a foster child without reason last year, a federal lawsuit says. During a recess period, the seventh-grader was unexpectedly called into his school principal`s office, handcuffed minutes later and shown into the back of a patrol car, court records show. A judge-signed order had directed the teen to be taken from Bryant to Pine Bluff, where he was expected to take the stand in adult criminal court and testify against his former foster father, who was charged in the sexual assault of another foster child. School staff members, a resource officer and another student watched as the teen was shackled by his hands and ankles. The...