Mom calls cops on her shoplifting 6-year-old

[December 24, 2009]  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio woman is defending her decision to call police after she discovered her 6-year-old daughter had shoplifted a package of stickers.

Diane Lyons of the village of Carrollton in eastern Ohio says she wanted to teach her daughter a lesson early in life.

The 31-year-old Lyons was shopping at a drugstore Dec. 15 when another daughter told her that 6-year-old Shiane (SHY'-ann) had taken the temporary-tattoo stickers.

Lyons asked a drugstore employee to call Carrollton police. A police report says Chief Ronald Yeager took the girl to the police station, where she was released to her mother.

Lyons says she thought briefly about claiming a $25 reward for identifying shoplifters but decided not to.

[Associated Press; By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS]

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