Hi I'm in my 30s now and after passing criminal law recently, remembered an incident when I was around 8 or so and with my family at the Ballarat Sovereign Hill as we were walking around there were actors and actresses dressed in 19th Century clothing and some sheriffs or some sort of Gold Commissioners or Goldfield Police that had real guns and handcuffs, etc, and one of them approached me and in front of my parents arrested me to a pole. It was obviously out of fun or acting but I remember feeling extremely embarrassed and uncomfortable. I think my parents took a photo or not and may have found it funny, but I did not at all. Is this not False Imprisonment?
According to any modern textbook or resource, False imprisonment requires the intentional, unlawful, and total restriction of a person's liberty within fixed boundaries without their consent or legal justification. I'm certain all the elements are satisfied including consent other than the last element, that of Legal Justification: Where the detention lacks lawful authority, such as police, statutory, or other legal privilege. It seemed to have not affected me until a couple of years ago when it was the first time I was living completely alone with all my family overseas and I was arrested by police for walking out of my supermarket with a bag of groceries that I claim was an accident as I was distracted and it also brought back memories of being restrained and handcuffed. Is there any causation that the first incident traumatised me and made me act out in real life as an adult?
According to any modern textbook or resource, False imprisonment requires the intentional, unlawful, and total restriction of a person's liberty within fixed boundaries without their consent or legal justification. I'm certain all the elements are satisfied including consent other than the last element, that of Legal Justification: Where the detention lacks lawful authority, such as police, statutory, or other legal privilege. It seemed to have not affected me until a couple of years ago when it was the first time I was living completely alone with all my family overseas and I was arrested by police for walking out of my supermarket with a bag of groceries that I claim was an accident as I was distracted and it also brought back memories of being restrained and handcuffed. Is there any causation that the first incident traumatised me and made me act out in real life as an adult?
