Let's not forget imitation fake cocaine.
Posted on 02/11/2006 4:11:34 PM PST by Revel
Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar
BY JUSTINA WANG A 12-year-old Aurora boy who said he brought powdered sugar to school for a science project this week has been charged with a felony for possessing a look-alike drug, Aurora police have confirmed.
The sixth-grade student at Waldo Middle School was also suspended for two weeks from school after showing the bag of powdered sugar to his friends.
The boy, who is not being identified because he is a juvenile, said he brought the bag to school to ask his science teacher if he could run an experiment using sugar.
Two other boys asked if the bag contained cocaine after he showed it to them in the bathroom Wednesday morning, the boy's mother said.
He joked that it was cocaine, before telling them, "just kidding," she said.
Aurora police arrested the boy after a custodian at the school reported the boy's comments. The youngster was taken to the police station and detained, before being released to his parents that afternoon.
"This is getting ridiculous," said the boy's mother. "They treated my son like a criminal. .. . This is no way to treat a 12-year-old kid."
East Aurora School District officials declined to comment on the case, citing privacy issues.
The district issued a written statement, which said: "The dangers of illegal drugs and controlled substances are clear.
Could get probation "Look-alike drugs and substances can cause that same level of danger because staff and students are not equipped to differentiate between the two."
The school handbook states that students can be suspended or expelled for carrying a look-alike drug.
Penalties for juveniles are decided on a case-by-case basis, but if convicted, the sixth-grader could likely face up to five years' probation, said Jeffery Jefko, deputy director of Kane County juvenile court services.
Juveniles who have prior criminal records could also be placed in a residential treatment program if convicted, he said.
Aurora Beacon-News
The school folks really can't hide behind that kind of argument anymore. In fact, the Momma probably ought to show up at the school tomorrow morning (after writing out a child endangerment complaint at the nearest station house), along with the cops, and haul these yahoos out of there before they get a chance to mess with more children.
It's literally amazing to watch how fast cops will gravitate to the "other side" of a question once somebody has filed a formal complaint.
That's not a discussion of what events unfolded. The school is bound to only release the bare facts.
Seriously, don't you think there are attorneys calling her all day to try to line them up as clients? Follow the money
Wrong; what he said about the sugar is the only legally relevant "event."
Sounds like something a 12 year old kid very well might do. He did tell them it was a joke.
And once it was checked and found to be sugar, police/court involvement should have ended.
I was able to remove a principal and his girlfriend teacher without checking in with the lawyers first.
Yours were the most sensible comments I've read on this thread tonight. I'd like to take all these people and condemn them to spend a month with my seventh-graders. I'm not sure describing these kids as stupid is accurate, as some of them are really, really articulate, but they have their heads in a whole different world from the rest of us. Good dose of reality needed here.
I'm surprised I got through school unscathed. Our drinking fountain had something coming out of it that looked exactly like vodka.
Clearly false, since the testing showed it to be a legal substance (sugar).
Ahh, middle schoolers aren't stupid, they are just creatures of the moment. Tomorrow is a long way off, next week an eternity. The goal of parents and teachers is to try to get them to stop to think before acting, and then to start thinking again. I think some posters here never moved past that stage. But that's okay, I don't have to live in anyone else's skin but mine.
Clearly false, since the testing showed it to be a legal substance (sugar).
Clearly true, since the police confirm that he has been charged with a felony.
Which had nothing to do with their testing. Perhaps you should read a little more carefully in the future.
A truly bizarre conclusion; please have your sugar tested. In the meantime, ponder this:
"Aurora police arrested the boy after a custodian at the school reported the boy's comments."
Re your #49 -
"...If this had happened to my son or daughter I would start a war with these blistering idiots the likes of which they never would have dreamed. I would fight to my last penny and breath ..."
Well, it might.
And I have no doubt that you will raise no uncertain level of hell with the boogers, too.
But the good news is that it may not cost you as much as you might expect it to when it does happen.
Interested?
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Is it worth 15 min. of your time to learn more?
That's your call entirely.
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