A 10-year-old boy in Mississippi has been put on probation and ordered to write a book report after being arrested in August for urinating in public.

The child was urinating behind his mother’s vehicle in a parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., while the mother was visiting a lawyer’s office Aug. 10, according to WAPT in Jackson, Miss. Senatobia police officers saw the child urinating and arrested him, placing him in a squad car and taking him to the police station.

Police said the child was never handcuffed, but his mother said the child was put in a jail cell, according to the Associated Press.

A few days after the arrest, Senatobia police chief Richard Chandler said one of the officers involved in the arrest was “no longer employed,” according to the AP.

Tate County Youth Court Judge Rusty Harlow put the child on three-months probation and also ordered him to write a two-page book report on the late NBA star Kobe Bryant.

The child’s lawyer, Carlos Moore, said the sentencing agreement was reached after prosecutors threatened to upgrade the charge of “child in need of supervision” to disorderly conduct if the family took the case to trial.

“I thought any sensible judge would dismiss the charge completely. It’s just asinine,” Moore told the AP. “There were failures in the criminal justice system all the way around.

“I don’t think there is a male in America who has not discreetly urinated in public,” Moore said.