Richmond Centre responds to photo posted on social media showing boy urinating in garbage can

Richmond Centre has responded to a photo circulating on social media showing a young boy urinating in a garbage can at the busy shopping centre.

The photo and story were posted on Reddit today and quickly attracted hundreds of comments.

In the photo, a young boy is shown being held up by an older woman, naked from the waist down, urinating directly into the garbage can in the middle of the mall. Customers can be seen in the background.

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Richmond Centre issued a statement on the incident Thursday night, saying there are three sets of washrooms in their shopping centre, along with three family rooms with child toilets.

“Given that we have these facilities throughout the common areas of the mall, we don’t have any formal regulation or signage warning customers not to urinate, defecate or expectorate on the property,” reads the statement.

“We are currently looking into this matter and ways to prevent similar occurrences in the future.”

“Our experience is that this type of behaviour isn’t the societal norm. Unfortunately this incident occurred so quickly that our team was only alerted after it took place.”