well... just read the posts and decided to jump in, I've got only 4 kids

and am stopping there! anyhoo... cuffing a 5 yr old is over the top, where I live a social worker would most likely accompanied the police and dealt with the situation, also most cops I know love kids and likly would have taken a seat there and just waited for mom to arrive, guess thoses big strong dudes were scared??
As for the runaway bride, what she did was wrong but sharia law (tradional islamic law)can be rather scary too!