KINGSTON, JAMAICA (DISTURBING CRIMES BY TEENS - PARENTS INVOLVED) : Police find teens committing robberies on orders from home.... Police warn parents to stop sending children to rob people. "Since the start of the year we have received reports of more than 25 of these robbery cases," the cop said.

BY KIMMO MATTTHEWS Observer staff reporter matthewsk@jamaicaobserver.com  Monday, March 30, 2015    
THE police say they have made a disturbing discovery in their investigation of an upsurge in robberies taking place on the streets of downtown Kingston. The crimes are being committed by teenagers under the command of their parents.
"We have been carrying out investigations, and what we have found is disturbing," said one policeman close to the development. "We have found that some parents are sending these youngsters out in the streets to carry out these illegal acts."
According to the cop, who declined to be named, many of the robberies are being carried out by boys between the ages of 15 and 18 who, when caught, reveal that they are acting on the parents' orders.
"In the last month we have apprehended more than seven of these youngsters and brought them before the court. But this is a small percentage of the overall robberies that take place," he told the Jamaica Observer as he explained that many of the teen thieves have escaped being captured by the police.
"Since the start of the year we have received reports of more than 25 of these robbery cases," the cop said, adding that many of these youngsters are still in school and have had multiple run-ins with the law.
The teen thieves, he said, make a habit of robbing shoppers and vendors, particularly in the market districts. They also target motor vehicles and steal phones that are left exposed.
"Many of these criminals are known to us, and we are making an appeal for those still out there to stop their illegal activities. We are also warning the parents to stop sending out their children on the streets to carry out these illegal acts," the policeman said.
He added that when many of these youth carry out their robberies and manage to escape no alarm is raised, but as soon as they are caught the parents are the first ones to get to the police station to deny that their children are involved in wrongdoing, even when they are caught red-handed. more

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