Girl, 9, Facing Four Felonies For Wild School Bus Tantrum, Battering Sheriff's Deputy
9:50 am - 11/07/2011
A nine-year-old Florida girl is facing four felony charges after she allegedly threw a tantrum yesterday on a school bus, spit on the driver, threw rocks at the bus, and tossed a patio chair at a cop, who she warned, “I will fuckin kill you!”
The child, a fourth grader at the Royal Palm School in Fort Myers, was traveling home when the driver told her to stop eating candy on the bus. The girl “became very upset” and started yelling obscenities at driver Robert Middleton, according to a Lee County Sheriff’s Office report.
After threatening to strike other children on the bus, the girl jumped off the bus (but not before spitting on Middleton). She then allegedly started throwing pieces of asphalt at the bus.
When a sheriff’s deputy arrived on the scene and ordered the child to stop throwing the asphalt, she replied, “Fuck you! Fuck you!” The child added, “Shut the fuck up. I will fuckin kill you.”
After warning that she would hurt him, the child “picked up an aluminum patio chair and threw it at me,” reported a deputy. After blocking the chair with his arm, the cop restrained the child, who then “attempted to bite my arm and said, ‘I am going to kill you, get off of me!”
The pint-sized terror was charged with battery on a public school employee, resisting arrest with violence, battery on a law enforcement officer, and throwing a deadly missile into an occupied vehicle.
The girl, pictured in the above mug shot [OP note: like hell I'm providing that], was released into her parents's custody last night and placed on home detention for 21 days.
Source has the mug shot... with the eyes censored out. Oh, in that case she's totally anonymous!
There are several problems with this story... not sure where to begin, so I'm'a just post it and share the rage.
The child, a fourth grader at the Royal Palm School in Fort Myers, was traveling home when the driver told her to stop eating candy on the bus. The girl “became very upset” and started yelling obscenities at driver Robert Middleton, according to a Lee County Sheriff’s Office report.
After threatening to strike other children on the bus, the girl jumped off the bus (but not before spitting on Middleton). She then allegedly started throwing pieces of asphalt at the bus.
When a sheriff’s deputy arrived on the scene and ordered the child to stop throwing the asphalt, she replied, “Fuck you! Fuck you!” The child added, “Shut the fuck up. I will fuckin kill you.”
After warning that she would hurt him, the child “picked up an aluminum patio chair and threw it at me,” reported a deputy. After blocking the chair with his arm, the cop restrained the child, who then “attempted to bite my arm and said, ‘I am going to kill you, get off of me!”
The pint-sized terror was charged with battery on a public school employee, resisting arrest with violence, battery on a law enforcement officer, and throwing a deadly missile into an occupied vehicle.
The girl, pictured in the above mug shot [OP note: like hell I'm providing that], was released into her parents's custody last night and placed on home detention for 21 days.
Source has the mug shot... with the eyes censored out. Oh, in that case she's totally anonymous!
There are several problems with this story... not sure where to begin, so I'm'a just post it and share the rage.
WAT
I'm getting really worried and upset at the way I keep hearing stories like this popping up in the Big People News with the adults and the police overreacting (I recall one where they tazed a 10 year old because he "wouldn't calm down" and was making threats) and everyone going "gasp!" and clutching their pearls over the fact that these children exist.
Honestly, if people knew how many of these kids, when they finally come down from their wobblers will collapse in your arms and just cry their hearts out because they're so sorry and they don't know -why- they get so mad or how to control it....it breaks your heart.
These kids don't need to be criminalized and shamed and publicly pointed out, they need interventions, b-mod courses, extensive counseling, competent teachers and cops and BUS DRIVERS who are trained to deal with them and OH YEAH some $#@! compassion.
Putting her mug shot out in public...yeah, that'll HELP things. Jeezus H. Why don't they just drag her down to the town square and stick her in the stocks so villagers can throw tomatoes at her?
Edited at 2011-11-07 03:08 pm (UTC)
*headdesk*
Edited at 2011-11-07 03:35 pm (UTC)
[also, I have to admit I'm surprised-in-a-good-way that none of the actual articles I've seen have made this a racial issue. It's just the commenters on said articles.]
*looks at source*
Now I understand.
I see. For fuck's sake.
Also for fuck's sake if she's acting like this at 9 shouldn't they be more concerned about her mental welfare? I mean, that attitude can't spell good things for the environment she's growing up in.
DEADLY MISSILES?! ASPHALT IS A DEADLY MISSILE?! I can't even, I'll just go do what I was doing before I read this.
i can only hope that since those are people commenting with their FB profile that future employers will google them and then not hire them. just... gross.
are they serious?? felonies RUIN lives, this is a 9 year old CHILD. i didn't even think it was possible for a child to receive a felony sentence. this is so infuriating and sad.
*looks at mug shot*
O.h.
Children throw fits, sometimes really bad fits. It's not that strange honestly =/ And posting the girl's picture? That's so low I can't even
It's not that strange, but I think I would disagree that it's a "kid thing" and not something that, when escalating as far as death threats or weapons, needs to be diagnosed/understood and treated. This is not to say that a juvenile detention facility was the right answer for your cousin.
Are you serious
How many times do I have to go through this?