Picture the scene. You and your family have been at a destination wedding and you're all about to fly back.

However, at the airport, your niece gets arrested for shoplifting.

Do you cancel your flight back and miss work to make sure she is okay?

Or do you get on that flight and leave her alone with the police?

Well, that is the exact predicament that

this person found themselves in. Am I the jerk for not staying after our niece got arrested? So,

we were all going to be flying back from a family member's wedding. A bunch of us were on the

same flight that got cancelled. We were able to get tickets for another flight

that had a layover. My sister sneakily got a flight on a direct flight. She basically just left us

with her 17-year-old daughter because she said she had to get back home for work. We know she

didn't tell us because she knew we would not have agreed. She knows we all think her daughter

is a pain in the

butt. But anyway, with no other options, we took her with us to the airport and she was her

moody, difficult self the whole time. While we were waiting in the airport during our layover,

she got up to supposedly go to the restroom. Well, when she got back, the airport police came up and she got arrested

for shoplifting. The police said that since she was 17, she'd be charged as an adult there

and transferred to the county jail. They said that she could be out tomorrow or it could take longer

depending on how busy they were. We all had our own places to be and were tired from dealing with

travel stuff. Mostly everyone, notably besides me, had younger kids that were also tired and cranky.

Nobody wanted to change their flight again and get a hotel for what may be multiple nights so they could

stay and wait for her. At this point, to be honest, we were just fed up with her.

We talked to the police about it and they said it would be okay if we took our flight.

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