Emily Irrizary says the man who was arrested for grabbing her son at a Lehigh Acres Walmart is getting off easy.
“What I’m upset about is the fact that how could somebody get away with just a misdemeanor…When he stated himself, let’s go and grabbed my son by the wrist and pulled him away from his sister,” Irrizary said.
That’s what the Lee County Sheriff’s Office says happened. The department posted video of what happened online. They say December 29th, 64-year-old, Pablo Pintueles Hernandez grabbed the four-year-old boy and tried to lead him away from his family.
When deputies arrested Pintueles Hernandez, they listed a charge of False Imprisonment of a Child Under 13-years-old in their report.
However, last week, the State Attorney’s Office reduced the charge to a first degree battery misdemeanor.
“The definition of battery is to touch or strike someone against there will, so when this guy grabbed the kid that constituted a battery allegedly,” Attorney Spencer Cordell said.