Sheriff’s Office hit with intense backlash after mother’s viral Facebook post details 12-year-old son’s ‘unlawful’ arrest

A twelve-year-old student in Lancaster, Ohio was detained after his classmates claimed the student possessed bombs. Now, his mother is speaking out on Facebook, saying that her son was falsely accused and wrongfully arrested.

In a Sept. 27 Facebook post, Sammy Roberts said that she received a phone call from her son's junior high school, where she was informed that he was arrested for having a bomb "strapped to his chest and another in his book bag."

When Roberts spoke to...