FREEZE! You're Being Arrested For "Serious" Reasons!

Imagine grocery shopping with your husband and toddler child. You just moved from California to Honolulu, and you're.... I don't knowwwww... PREGNANT! You pick up two sandwiches to nibble on and keep the package and scanner to pay for it when you get up to the register. You pay for your groceries, ready to leave when suddenly, you're stopped by a security guard. You end up getting arrseted-you and your husband and your child, well they get sent over to state custody. WHY?!? Because for a quick second, the sandwich that was about $5 combined that you ate and planned on paying for slipped your mind. Realizing this, you asked the guard if you could just pay for it and you genuinely forgot about the sandwiches. Only to have the guard deny your request and four hours later, a police officer arrives and reads you your rights and a woman from the state Child Welfare Services arrived to take your toddler away.

Unimaginable, huh?
That's exactly what happened to former Air Force staff sergeant, Nicole Leszczynski and husband, Marcin Leszcynski. A trip to the grocery store turned for the worst.
I don't believe drastic precautions like this should have been taken. A simple mistake should've been looked over. It's not the fact that she honestly had forgotten while shopping, but she offered to pay for it, explaining it escaped her mind and the little fact that she had her 2 year old daughter, Zofia with her and being pregnant didn't give Safeway supermarket a good look at all.
The couple was later released on a $50 bail each and weren't able to see their daughter.
Having something as traumatic as this isn't something the Leszcynski's planned on letting go.
While waiting on the return of their daughter, Nicole decided speaking her mind on a site called babycenter.com and called for a lawyer to help with getting Zofia back as soon as possible. Zophia wasn't reunited with her parents until 18 hours later.
The media was contacted about the going ons with the incident, as instructed by their lawyer and the story got attention. The family hasn't decided whether it will pursue legal action against Safeway.

All of this because a sandwich wasn't payed for. EXCUSE US SIMPLE HUMANS FOR FORETTING EVERY NOW AND THEN!