A British mother was arrested and jailed for over seven hours, and nearly barred from seeing her children on Mother's Day—all for confiscating her daughters' iPads to help them focus on schoolwork.
On March 26, Vanessa Brown, a 50-year-old history teacher from Surrey, England, found herself at the center of a bewildering legal ordeal, according to LBC. It began after a man in his 40s contacted Surrey Police to report a potential theft involving two iPads.
