NRI Sikh woman arrested for tying her son's hair to a stairway handrail

Manteca, California, Aug 09, 2007
Darshan singh

NRI sikh woman, Balbir Kaur, 27 had tied her 10 years old son's long hair tightly to a stairway handrail in the apartment as punishment and about 9pm, the police officers responded to a call on the 350 block of North Union Road. When they arrived, they could see a young boy through the window who had been screaming and did not come to the door when officers asked him.

Rex Osborn, a police spokesman said, police arrested a 27-year-old woman for cruelty to a child. The boy and his one-year-old sibling were taken into custody by Child Protective Services. She was booked into San Joaquin County Jail in French Camp on a count of felony child endangerment.

Our local reporter said: Officers were able to untie the boy's 20-inch long hair without having to cut it, Osborn said.

The AP reports that Police had to cut the boy's 20-inch hair to release him from the railing.

On Wednesday afternoon, she was released on her own recognizance, on $50,000 bail and she was scheduled to appear in San Joaquin Superior Court on Aug. 13, 2007

The police officer says, they hadn't seen anything like it

Manteca is a small city and 75 miles east of San Francisco