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Oh Lord. This woman is probably happy this happened to her poor son so she has an excuse to get a pay day. $250 million is absurd.

Obviously we don't know the whole story. Maybe the child was being aggressive and needed to be subdued for his own safety. Ten hours of interrogation is obviously unacceptable for a child but it sounds like that is not confirmed. Isn't it against the law to interrogate a minor without a parent present? I can't imagine the NYPD would completely ignore protocol over $5 of lunch money.

$250mill?? Please. For all we know, the kid could have been violent and unruly. Maybe handcuffing him to that rail was for his own good. This mother is clear trying to cash in and I hate that. He's not traumatized and even if he is, it's not worth $250mill. It's not even worth $1mill. Perhaps if this mother would have done a better job at raising an honest and respectful kid, he wouldn't have ever been in that situation.

Oh man at the first article I thought wow that's excessive handcuffing a child etc. THEN I read the second article and the bully's friend verifies what the accuser stated... sad.

I find it to be really heartbreaking when parents would rather teach their kids to fight the system then themselves fighting to raise good respectable children.

This also was telling "Attorney Ron Kuby said that regardless of what the police find, the Reyes family will never collect anything near $250 million — but “no lawyer ever lost a case by adding too many zeroes to a damage request.”

This would make a great SVU episode.

@mrbee: lol!

gonna be honest, didn't read the article but anyone suing for $250 mil for something like this is ridic! sue-happy people..ay yiyi. if i sued for half of what i "could have" in my life i'd be loaded.

Gosh, talk about sue-happy. What is she teaching her child?

I'd like to hear the cops' side of the story.

I don't think handcuffing a child is necessarily the worst thing ever. It depends on the situation.

I can't believe some people! suing for 250 million?! Sheesh!

After our experience with G in school (private) it doesn't surprise me at all that a 7 years old would be repeatedly bullying and the teachers not do anything. It's terrible.

What I do have a problem with is regardless of his crime it's our right to not be interrogated without counsel. Seeing as this kid is 7, he doesn't know that, and I feel that's a violation against him and all our children that have had anything similar done to them. This happens all the time to kids, even when what they did was an innocent mistake (happened to G and I didn't find out about it until the principal called me TWO days after the incident) I feel it begins to condition them to accept certain rights to not be upheld & that's just not fair to them.

If he's bullying that other kid though, there needs to be some serious measures taken to protect the victim. I think the way schools handle bullying is atrocious! Stinks all the way around.