WTF is wrong with people.. 9and 10 yr olds arrested
 

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http://www.local6.com/news/4130302/detail.html

Students Arrested Over 'Violent' Stick Figure Drawings
Pictures Show Classmate Being Stabbed, Hung

POSTED: 1:40 am EST January 26, 2005
UPDATED: 3:07 pm EST January 26, 2005

OCALA, Fla. -- Two boys, ages 9 and 10, were charged with felonies and taken away from school in handcuffs, accused of making violent drawings of stick figures.

The boys were arrested Monday on charges of making a written threat to kill or harm another person, a second-degree felony.

The special education students used pencil and red crayon to draw primitive stick figure scenes on scrap paper that showed a 10-year-old classmate being stabbed and hung, police said.

"The officer found they were drawing these pictures for the sole purpose of intimidating and scaring the victim," said Ocala Police Sgt. Russ Kern.

The boy depicted in the drawings told his teacher, who took the sketches and contacted the school dean, Marty Clifford. Clifford called police, who arrested the boys after consulting with the State Attorney's Office.

They were also suspended from school.

One drawing showed the two boys standing on either side of the other boy and "holding knives pointed through" his body, according to a police report. The figures were identified by written names or initials.

Another drawing showed a stick figure hanging, tears falling from his eyes, with two other stick figures standing below him. Other pieces of scrap paper listed misspelled profanities and the initials of the boy who was allegedly threatened.

Parents of both of the arrested boys said they thought the boys should be punished by the school and families, not the legal system.

Ocala police said they stand behind the decision to arrest the children.

"When an adult or even myself look at the picture looked at it at first I was thinking there is really not much to the picture or I would not be that scared by the picture those children drew," Ocala police spokesman Russ Kearn said. "However, we have to put ourselves in his mind and that's the bottom line here. It is his well-being and the way he perceived that picture to be. It actually put him in extreme fear and he was in fear for his life."

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.


Fucking morons in this country.. I have a mind to drive to Ocala and rescue these kids from jail..

shit, it's a good thing they didn't have that law when I was a kid.

What's going through the minds of our young amereicans these days?

Its a catch-22.

If they did nothing and the kids came to school and stabbed the other kids, they'd be saying why didnt you do something when they made the drawing to prevent this?

But when they do something at the drawing stage, they get condemned for it.

ok the art sucks, but shit a felony for it? Cant they give them a break since they are in special ed. The DA should relize that not everyone is naturally gifted in art.

MMmmmm, I think its only going to get worst..

lol yea no shit.. they should give them art classes :1orglaugh

On another note, the county is just a stupid. Those obviously are bubble figures and not stick figures.

(sarcasm)horay for Florida!!! we rock!!!!(/sarcasm)

Hey crockett, I am in Deltona and have been watching this story today. Amazing!

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

"Another drawing showed a stick figure hanging, tears falling from his eyes, with two other stick figures standing below him"

Seems like the kids realized that what they wanted to do to another student was going to cause pain and suffering.

These kids are fucked up for life with a felony on their record due to a fucking stick picture?! This is too stupid to be real.

when i was in kindergarten, my teacher called my parents in one day to show them a picture i drew of helicopters shooting people, blood, war.

dont know why i was drawing that stuff, maybe too much tv?

i was only like 7, dont know what i was thinking. lol

That news is both sad and scary at the same time. :(

I do not think they should have arrested those kids.

hahah ..
my kids are goin to jail if thats what the worlds comin to

So is my mother.

not right to be aressted, fucking goverment is fucked up these days.

Do you expect anything different from Florida?

From someone in FL...no... :error

Kids have been doing that since the begining of time..ridiculous

"the school dean, Marty Clifford. Clifford called police"

my :2 cents: is that in my opinion, someone like that has a guilty conscious, probabaly some p3d0 :(

thats pretty fucked up, i used to do that shit all the time.

must be the radio waves

oh c'mon i used to draw so much shit like that when i was little

i even drew a picture of my 4th grade teacher getting blown up by an army guy's bazooka and showed it to her!

but when i was even younger the principal and a psychiatrist tried to find out why i was drawing freddy kruger killing everyone almost everyday... it was cuz my older teenage sister (who babysat me while mom was working 2 jobs) would take me to the movies with her and her friends to watch them... guess they grew on me

freddy kruger is still the best killer ever thought up :)

has anyone heard of free speach and expression?

Is this a trend here at GFY? Cause I did the same shit
:1orglaugh

I remember I always drew pictures of people fighting in war (with plenty of blood of course).. and then one day one of my teachers got mad at me. Here I was thinking what the fuck did I do wrong. After all we learned about WWII and Vietnam. I also was addicted to National Geographic (well, looked at the photographs) even before I was in first grade!

I went on to almost become an professional artist.. and history was my favoraite subject in school until I discovered the PC and started dialing BBSes...

What a long rant for such a damn stupid news story..

So the liberal thought police that run our schools have moved on to getting a 9 year old retard and a 10 year old retard arrested...

At least they seem to be over the election.

cops taser 6 and 9 year olds in the united states, are you REALLY surprised?

http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/11/1705018.php

good get those little devil children the hell out of school and into a 4 walled cell, little demons drawing them stabbing some classmate, YA THATS OK /sarcasm.

they used to only make kids go through hours upon hours of psychotherapy for that.......now they incarcerate them.......what a difference a few decades will do......sad really......but then again today?s violent teenagers are tomorrow?s serial killers.

<--- proud to also be a part of the gfy kindergarden army team :ak47: :upsidedow

Damn those retarded kids...

What ever happened to calling your parents and sending you home so your parents can spank the shit out of you? That's what would have happened when I was in school. When did it become a common practice to handcuff children, take mugshots and charge them with felonies? WTF

btw...that's the town I live in :disgust

people need to realize "public school" is not just a hand out.

you are basically trading in your child to the wage slave work force.

i will home school my children.

there is no way id drop a child off into a system designed to make money off their back as they slave for a wage.

america will be better when it rids itself of the communist attitude that education should be free to all.

the power of the state has your children now.

Stop spreading lies Fletch...

Things will be better when all the 'special ed' children are rounded up and incarcerated for life!

:glugglug

Those kids need therapy. They will not understand the jail system right now, it'll make them worse.

damn this thread is still going.. :Oh crap goes to show you.. anything with retards sells :1orglaugh