I guess the rumors of the Contra Costa County District Attorneys office are true. They have become very lax on crime with all of the budget cuts. Most recently the DA’s office has failed to file charges on a man who was arrested and confessed to taking a 4 year old child from his front yard.

In a bizarre twist, Jose Camal a Concord transient flagged down police officers a short time later and explained he had taken the kid to eat dinner. I guess after drinking a case of beer, he got hungry and wanted to have some company.

Since the DA’s office could not find a crime commited, they let Camal back onto the street. Legally, I guess I get it. Generally, kidnapping occurs when a person, without lawful authority, physically asports (i.e., moves) another person without that other person’s consent, with the intent to use the abduction in connection with some other nefarious objective.

Since this guy was too hammered to think straight and all he did was remove this child from his yard to go eat dinner, there was NO real crime. Hey, from the reports, the child told Camal he was hungry too so I guess this 4 year old gave consent. Sometimes the laws are just mind boggeling.

So what have I learned from this? It’s alright to steal a child as long as you plan on returning him in a hour or two. The DA’s office considers this child ‘borrowing’ and not kidnapping.

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