A Preschooler on a Jury? A 4-Year-Old Received a Jury Duty Summons

A preschooler on a jury? A 4-year-old received an official government summons to appear for jury duty. Watch the short but jaw-dropping clip to hear more about a young woman being called for jury duty.

The possibility of being called to serve on a jury is part of being a resident in the United States. You’ll often hear people call it a civic duty. While serving on a jury is considered a duty, that does not stop people from coming up with any and every excuse to avoid fulfilling that responsibility.

As I can report from personal experience, serving on a jury is not what the movies and television make it out to be. It’s not nearly as fun and exciting as an episode of “Law and Order” might make it out to be. The days can be long and arduous, and the pay is even worse.  But I can say that people will come up with plenty of excuses to avoid serving on a jury.

A clip posted on YouTube shows that one court may be trying to get around the problem of people making excuses to avoid jury duty. Instead, it appears they might be starting to recruit younger potential jurors, much younger. Zara Ibrahimi, a preschooler, is only 4 years old.

“I actually believed a sigh of relief when I saw it wasn’t my name on it,” Omar Ibrahimi, Zara’s father, said. “And then it took me a second, I’m like, ‘Wait a second, why, why is my daughter’s name on this jury summons?’”

Zara’s father said he sent his wife a text informing her that their daughter had just received a summons to report for jury duty.

Hilariously enough, Omar started informing his daughter about juries and their essential role in our judicial system. Once she heard about what she was being called to do, she was incredulous.

“I’m just a baby!” she said.

Romans 13:1 “Let everyone put himself under the authority of higher powers, because there is no power which is not of God, and all powers are ordered by God.”