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6-Year-Old Girl Arrested For ‘Battery’ After Throwing Tantrum

Ashe Schow
6-Year-Old Girl Arrested For ‘Battery’ After Throwing Tantrum
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A 6-year-old girl in Florida was arrested after she threw a tantrum in her Florida classroom.

The girl’s grandmother, Meralyn Kirkland, said the girl suffers from sleep apnea and was sleep deprived when she threw the tantrum, and shouldn’t have been arrested. She told NBC affiliate WFLA-TV that she was told of the arrest after the fact.

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