Some 10-year-olds sell cookies and lemonade to earn a bit of spending cash, but not Kinley Maner. Kinley, from Thatcher, Arizona, is earning money by

Arizona girl, 10, sells prize chicks for $2,100 — but then Chase froze her check, closed the account. Here’s why

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2024-11-18 21:30:14

Some 10-year-olds sell cookies and lemonade to earn a bit of spending cash, but not Kinley Maner. Kinley, from Thatcher, Arizona, is earning money by raising and selling chickens at the local fair.

“She really enjoyed it, had a lot of fun, learned a lot about chickens,” her father, J.R. Maner told Arizona’s Family On Your Side. “It really taught her kind of strict obedience of being out there and taking care of an animal.”

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After showing her feathered friends at the Graham County Fair, Kinley, like many people who show animals at the fair, put them up for auction. When the bidding was over, Kinely managed to sell her six chickens for a whopping $2,100 and change, which her mother, Kali, electronically deposited into her bank account. A day later, however, Chase Bank froze the check and then closed Kali's account entirely. A year later, Kinley still hadn't received her profits.

Kinley’s mom spent several hours on the phone with Chase, trying to figure out what happened to the girl’s prize money and why her account had been closed. According to Kalli, Chase said when bank officials checked the phone number of the Small Stock Association, which issued the payment, it was out of service. That seemed suspicious to them, so they froze the funds and closed her account.