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Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Yet another sad example of our safety obsession gone awry

An eleven year old girl throws a rock (admittedly a sizeable one) at an eight year old boy who was pelting her with water balloons and the "police responded with three cars and a helicopter". Not only that, but the prosecutor charged her with a felony - assault with a deadly weapon. The girl spent five days in detention (being allowed one 30 minute visit by her parents) and a month under house arrest. Can we say "overreaction"!?!


Interestingly the news stories do not mention the claim made on a website in her support that the boys teased her and called her names.

Calif. Girl, 11, Avoids Felony Trial - Yahoo! News

Stone-throwing girl escapes trial

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posted by z @ 10:02 PM  

5 Comments:

  • At 11:04 PM, Blogger angimally said…

    i feel sorry for that poor, poor rock...

     

  • At 2:17 AM, Blogger z said…

    i know. the poor thing. i'm sure it nearly suffocated in one of those evidence bags. and i'll bet ya they didn't even let it wash itself up... that blood got all crusted up. i wonder if it'll ever be released again into the wild?

     

  • At 8:27 AM, Blogger nell said…

    if you truly love your children, you need to hold them accountable. fine. but if that's the way you're going to do it, i should be in jail serving a life sentence for the attempted murder of my brother when i was like, 5. ridiculousness.

     

  • At 8:47 AM, Blogger Rama said…

    But that's family Nels... it's a domestic/private issue. It doesn't threaten the "community" (please note sarcasm). they are children... they should be held accountable by their parents, not the judicial system (there are exceptions, but this isn't one of them).

     

  • At 11:28 AM, Blogger Sarah said…

    haha, Good thing I'm not a child now. I used to constantly beat up guys. And if he was calling me names, haha. it's all over.

     

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