Woman Comes Home To Find Burglar Eating At Kitchen Table
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Posted: 4:53 PM Aug 19, 2008
Last Updated: 6:59 PM Aug 19, 2008
Reporter: Dave Spencer
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Police are looking into an unusual break-in in Georgetown. The homeowner came home to find the criminal eating her food at her kitchen table after he cut a hole in a bedroom wall.

At 3:00 Saturday morning, Scott County Sheriff Deputy Buster Cannon says an air conditioner was pulled out of the window of a home on Dale Drive and a 14-year-old, along with others, climbed through.

Police say once they got inside, they realized there was a problem.

Deputy Cannon says, "They were unaware that inside the structure had childproof locks on it which obviously they couldn't get back out of."

Around this same time, the woman who lives in the home got a text message from her 12-year-old son, informing her that somebody might be in the house.

Deputy Cannon says she came home to find them sitting at the kitchen table, eating.

That appeared to be all they wanted to do, because police say they didn't take much.

"No, he just got him some munchies and left," Deputy Cannon said.

When police caught one suspect, just down the road, it became clear how he had escaped the locked room.

"After checking him out found some drywall on his waist underneath his shirt where he scrambled through, the hole he'd made with the decoration he used to knock a hole through the wall," Cannon said.

Police say the 14-year-old was intoxicated but coherent when he was arrested. He has since been released back to his parent's care.

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Posted by: Jeb Location: KY on Aug 21, 2008 at 08:54 AM
Okay, follow me here. Her 12 year old text messaged her that someone might be in the house. The 12 year old was home alone with childproofs locks on the door so he couldn't get out. Haven't there been stories before where parents got arrested for "locking" their kids in a house? If a fire happened, he would be dead since he can't get out. Is this called endangering the welfare of a minor, inhumane actions, held against his will or just a loving mother who didn't want her son wandering the streets when she wasn't home (for whatever reason)? I'm confused as to why the law applies in some cases but not all.

Posted by: Ronnie Location: Breathitt on Aug 20, 2008 at 03:46 PM
Well that was a good one come home to find some robbers setting at the table eating your food and can not get out of the house because of the child proof locks. I wanna know where this woman gets her child proof locks because I may need some of them later on.

Posted by: Concerned Location: ky on Aug 20, 2008 at 11:21 AM
Sad, but hopefully, the mother was working & not out partying. I agree that the 14yr old shouldn't have been out at 3am. And I obviously don't understand the report, if the burglars couldn't get out because of childproof locks, how was the 12 yr old to get out if the trailer had caught on fire? Hopefully 27 will elaborate on this.

Posted by: 2problems on Aug 20, 2008 at 08:58 AM
no doubt a 14 year old should not be drinking, but why should a 12 year old have to text his mother at 3 am for her to come home?

Posted by: Joey Location: Lex on Aug 20, 2008 at 07:56 AM
Read the last line of this story..."Police say the 14-year-old was intoxicated but coherent when he was arrested. He has since been released back to his parent's care." Sorry, but released back to his parent's care is wrong. If there was any "care" to begin with, this kid wouldn't be doing what he did. How effing stupid!

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