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
"This falls under the statute of "look-alike" drugs because that is how he presented it to his friends. Had he showed the sugar to his friends and said "this is sugar for a Science experiment" there would have been no punishment.
The title is misleading. He was in trouble not for bringing sugar, but for bringing a product and claiming it was a drug."
But the handbook bans "look-alike drugs", not verbal statements about sugar being coke.
If the authorities can't stop the trafficking of drugs, the solution in their minds it to arrest those who posess things that "look" like drugs.
This is like suspending kids for drawing a picture of a gun in school and then arresting them for posession of a gun, or drawing a picture of a plane flying into a building and suspending them for having terrorist ideas.
Symbolism over substance.
The incompetence of the authorities to stop real crime.
Arrest people for the appearance of crime.
that is truly amazing!
i didn't think even schools could come up with a policy that banned water.
Which explains perfectly why society simply MUST charge this 12 year old boy with a FELONY and place him on probation until he's 18.
Good grief. Death of common sense indeed.
"You forgot to call police officers Nazis and statists. You're slipping"
actually, i don't call police "nazis" or "statists".
i was really making fun of the guy defending the school policy, not making fun of the police, who probably think the policy is ridiculous.
The time to figure out how you're going to get the tools is before you make the rules, not after someone violates them.
check out post #149--apparently a school really did ban water because it looked like alcohol.
what can I say?
don't they have lab tests that differentiate marijuana from oregano?
there is also something called a "chain of evidence".
Dont worry I wont but even if it does I got plenty of padding to keep me from being injured :-) I would advise you to get out while the getting is good also.If you know anything about history(Wich I doubt seeing as how you are supporting the exact same prohibition against drugs that utterly failed against alchohol) you will know that the people that help communist/fascists/dictators get into power are the first to get imprisoned or exacuted once they are in because the people that get them into power are the ones that are the biggest threat to take them back out of power.Just ask any of the people that got lenin into power in 1917 a vast majority were dead or in gulags by 1918 or ask any of hitlers backers the same thing within a year they were dead or in prisons and so on and so forth from mao to casto pol pot saddam ect.You are a major help in getting the country to turn into a fascist regime with your vocal and probable finacial support of these totalitarian laws once the feds can finally get rid of the constitution as token governing document in this country they will turn there wrath on you first in case you lose favor with them and work as hard to get them out of power as you now are getting them in.
that's a great quotation. what book is it from?
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
Then perhaps the child should not lie about what is in the bag? He has some responsibility here.
Then perhaps the child should not lie about what is in the bag? He has some responsibility here.
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When did it become a felony to lie?
When you say that a substance is an illegal drug. At that point, a felony has been committed.
I prefer teaching at the Catholic school the best. My only complaint involves class size. 35 6th graders is a bit much. My least favorite was the Christian school. The kid were out of control and the principal was powerless to change anything. I taught one year and left. I may teach at a local Lutheran school in the near future. Waiting to see how things turn out.
I have never been a member of the NEA or an offshoot of the NEA.
I am proudly conservative and teach in that way. Where I draw my current salary from at this moment has no more bearing on this conversation than does your employment.
Another example of gross institutionalized child abuse.
The problem is that our society has given up on being responsible. No longer do they weigh each problem that comes to them and make decisions. They prepare cause and effect lists and point to them when anyone asks "what should we do". That way, nobody can blame them. Cowards. Our society is rolling over and peeing on itself.
"BY JUSTINA WANG: In another breaking news item, the Aurora Chief of Police was arrested by Federal DEA agents for possession and distribution of mass quantities of drug delivery vehicles heavily coated with a look-alike drug."
"Although his attorney claims that the evidence was planted, Federal authorities say they have forensic evidence that clearly connects the Aurora Chief of Police to the alleged crime."
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