- (NEW YORK) - It's an only in New York story. A
woman was given a ticket for sitting on a park bench because she doesn't
have children.
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- The Rivington Playground on Manhattan's East Side has
a small sign at the entrance that says adults are prohibited unless they
are accompanied by a child. Forty-seven-year-old Sandra Catena says she
didn't see the sign when she sat down to wait for an arts festival to start.
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- Two New York City police officers asked her if she was
with a child. When she said no, they gave her a ticket that could bring
a one thousand dollar fine and 90 days in jail.
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- The city parks department says the rule is designed to
keep pedophiles out of city parks, but a parks spokesman told the Daily
News that the department hoped police would use some common sense when
enforcing the rule.
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- The spokesman told the paper that ticketing a woman in
the park in the middle of the day is not the way you want to enforce the
rule.
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