Mother Takes Her Daughters I Phone 6 as A Punishment - The Court Charged Her With Theft, Which Could be Punishable by up to 93 Days in Jail

Hudsonville, Michigan - A Michigan mom was in court on Tuesday, accused of stealing her daughter's cell phone.

Jodie May, of Grandville, told WOOD she took the iPhone 6 away in April after her 15-year-old daughter got in trouble at school.

The mother stood before the district Jodie, who described his mother's act with her daughter as a crime. She accused her of stealing the phone and facing possible imprisonment.

"I was just a mother trying to discipline my daughter," she told the judge.

But her ex-husband told the police that the phone was his property and claimed that his former wife had committed a crime. He filed a complaint against her at the Ottawa County Police Office, where he said his ex-wife had stolen the phone.

This led to her arrest in May and was immediately released with a $ 200 bail. Whose charges are considered an case, shall be punished by imprisonment for up to three months.

Before the start of the trial on Tuesday, prosecutors added another charge for the alleged theft of the phone: theft by transfer, and also punishable by up to three months.

Before the witnesses were summoned, the plaintiffs presented a new story to the judge.

Ottawa County Assistant Prosecutor Sarah Matwiejczyk told the judge.told the judge, "I have had the opportunity to discuss the victim on this case"

It turned out that the previous husband did not own the phone. But it is to his daughter.

"The defendant is the mother of the minor child, and I think this is a very bad situation," the prosecutor said. "So we demand that the charge be dropped."

The mother left the courtroom with a clean record and said the whole situation was absurd.

she said :"I can not believe that I should be exposed to it, I have to put my daughter through him, and my family, I am very surprised, but I am very happy with the result".

The court-appointed lawyer, Jennifer Kuiper, asked why the charges had ever been filed.

"The case has been approved on a possible grounds, and unfortunately sometimes there are cases of misdemeanor that have not been carefully examined, and unfortunately Mrs. Mayo was a victim," she said.

Assistant Prosecutor-General Matvitchik refused to speak to 24 Hour News 8.