3-Year-Old: Florida cops are jailing toddlers for having potty training accidents now

Florida cops are jailing toddlers for having potty training accidents now.

The boy promised to never again poop his pants, Schoenbrod said in the interview.

It is unclear whether Schoenbrod and another high-ranking Daytona Beach Shores officer, Det. Sgt. Jessica Long, who brought their child to the jail on Oct. 5, faced discipline from the city. The News-Journal has obtained copies of memos written by Public Safety Director Michael Fowler to each informing them of a professional standards investigation.

Schoenbrod and Long live together and have the child together. A 3½-year-old child having difficulty getting potty trained was brought to the Daytona Beach Shores Public Safety Department on successive days last October and placed in jail, a high-ranking officer told a caseworker during an interview.

On the second occasion, Oct. 6, 2022, the child was also handcuffed.

“He was crying. I was getting the response I expected from him,” Lt. Michael Schoenbrod told the Department of Children and Families caseworker, body-cam footage from a Volusia County Sheriff’s Office deputy shows.

The boy promised to never again poop his pants, Schoenbrod said in the interview.

It is unclear whether Schoenbrod and another high-ranking Daytona Beach Shores officer, Det. Sgt. Jessica Long, who brought their child to the jail on Oct. 5, faced discipline from the city. The News-Journal has obtained copies of memos written by Public Safety Director Michael Fowler to each informing them of a professional standards investigation.

To the extent that a three-and-a-half-year-old has a problem, it is either a medical problem or a parenting problem. It is not the three-and-a-half-year-old’s problem.

One thing is for damned sure; it is not a law-enforcement problem.

And so it is just brain pain to learn that the town of Daytona Beach Shores allowed two Public Safety officers (Police) to bring their three-and-a-half-year-old to be put in jail… twice! On the second occasion, the boy was handcuffed!