9-Year-Old Tasered After Skipping School

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9-Year-Old Tasered After Skipping School

March 13, 2012 Updated Mar 13, 2012 at 10:53 AM PDT

(MSNBC.com) An Ohio police officer says he used a stun gun twice on a 9-year-old who skipped school because the child refused to cooperate with his commands.

Details of the incident, which resulted in the shutdown of a village police force, were released Monday, The Columbus Dispatch reported. The Mount Sterling officer went to the boy's home on a truancy complaint last week. He says the child's mother warned the boy, who weighs between 200 and 250 pounds, to obey the officer or he'd be shocked.

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