Bibb deputies defuse stepson-stepmom spat

As punishment, a 10-year-old Macon boy’s cellphone was taken away by his father and stepmother after he reportedly hit a girl on her shoulder. The boy was staying at his dad’s place for the weekend. While he was there on April 16 he “snooped around the house,” found his phone and texted his mother and told her his stepmom had hit him and that he “did not feel safe,” a Bibb sheriff’s report said. Deputies were called when the father and stepmother learned that the child’s mother was on her way to their house. The mother “has a history of trying to fight” the stepmother, the report noted. When a sheriff’s deputy got to the house on Maplewood Drive east of Wesleyan Drive in north Macon, the boy told him he didn’t like his stepmother, that “she is always trying to get her way.” The deputy asked the boy what he meant by that. “She is always telling me what to do,” the boy replied. The deputy, after seeing that the boy was OK and that the house was in order, told the boy that his stepmother was just looking out for him. Then the boy, according to the report, said he “just wanted his dad and mother to be married instead.” Meanwhile, the child’s mother called and said she was almost there, “yelling various things,” the deputy’s report said, “that I could not understand due to the yelling.” When she got there, she hollered some more. The deputy’s write-up said she “stated she was going to call the police on me,” adding, “I got something for you.” Another deputy came and helped defuse the matter. The mother was told that her son was not being harmed and that his father had every right to keep him that weekend. The mother, the report concluded, “was not happy but did indeed leave.”

This story was originally published April 27, 2016 at 8:00 PM with the headline "Bibb deputies defuse stepson-stepmom spat."