Mother Receives $2500 Ticket For 3 Year Old Son Trying to Urinate in Front Yard

A police officer in a small Oklahoma town has caused an outrage after issuing a $2,500 ticket to a woman because her three-year-old son tried to urinate in the family’s front yard.

Ashley Warden, of Piedmont, received the staggering fine after Officer Ken Qualls spotted her son, Dillan, who is going through potty training, dropping his pants outside the family’s home on Ryan Drive Sunday afternoon.

‘The policeman pulled up and asked for ID,’ the boy’s grandmother, Jennifer Warden, told NewsOK. ‘We didn’t know why and he said it was for public urination. We were like, “He’s 3 years old.” And he said it didn’t matter.’

Dillan’s mother said the incident has left her so enraged that she tore up the ticket, but then taped it back together and filed a complaint with the local police department.

Piedmont Police Chief Alex Oblein conceded on Tuesday that officer Qualls could have handled the incident better by turning it into a teachable moment for the Warden family.

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