December 29th 2023.
Latonya Eason, mother of 10-year-old Quantavious Eason, has refused to sign a probation agreement imposed by a Mississippi judge after her son was charged for urinating in public. On December 26th, the family's attorney Carlos Moore announced this refusal and asked for the charge to be dismissed entirely.
Quantavious, who is Black, was sentenced on December 12th by Judge Rusty Harlow to three months probation and a book report on Kobe Bryant. These terms were similar to those of an adult criminal, and included prohibitions on weapons, discretionary drug tests, and an 8 p.m. curfew over the Christmas period.
It all began back on August 10th when the young boy urinated behind his mother's car while she visited a lawyer's office in Senatobia, Mississippi. He was arrested and held in a police car and at the station, though he was not handcuffed. Later on, the police chief admitted the officers had mishandled the incident and one of them was no longer employed by the department.
Prosecutors had initially threatened to upgrade the charge to "disorderly conduct" if the family challenged the sentence. However, after Latonya reviewed the full probation agreement, she felt it treated her son as a criminal and decided not to sign.
Attorney Moore has since filed a motion to dismiss the case entirely or take it to trial. A hearing is scheduled for January 16, 2024. Moore believes the harsh probation terms were inappropriate for a child and has called for the charge to be dropped, rather than risking further penalizing Quantavious.
The 10-year-old's family is now hoping the case will be thrown out and that he will face no further punishment for the minor incident. They are optimistic that the judge will take into consideration the inappropriate and unnecessary nature of the charges, as well as the fact that the family has already suffered enough.
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