10-year old boys arrested for drawing 'violent' stick figures

[Brent]

HAS THE WORLD GONE INSANE???? Yes, these boys are horrible violent monsters, no doubt.

You know, I drew lots of crazy stick figures when I was in school and I didn't grow up to be a serial killer or a violent maniac (other than verbally, lol). This just makes me shake my head in wonder. Being a little boy is now apparently AGAINST THE LAW.

Students Arrested Over 'Violent' Stick Figure Drawings
2 Students Charged With Felonies Over Stick Figure Drawings    

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.

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"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."

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

[cathy]

and thought - How utterly and totally ridiculous!  

[MYSONSDAD]

I could understand seeing the boys reprimanded and warned. After school detentions, maybe some good community service around the school yard. I can also understand were the victim may have felt intimidated, but this is the EXTREME.

Apparently, no one in Oscala remembers life as a 9 or 10 year old boy. I think many of us have had "our moments" when we were this age...

"Children learn what they live"

[wendl]

My oss drew pictures of his mom dead, pictures of dh and I alive, pictures of my son in an electric chair and a hole file of dead people. It was disturbing to us, but the people in the medical field etc, during the custody trial didn't seem to worry to much about it. Just goes to show how the system works and doesn't work at times.

**These are my opinions, they are not legal advice**

[FleetingMoment]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/12/10/48hours/main660314.shtml?cmp=EM8707

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_335075.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/03/09/national/main277536.shtml

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2001/03/05/national1449EST0601.DTL&type=printable


It needs to be taken seriously.  I wonder if anyone disregarded these child murderers as harmless?

[Peanutsdad]

Did you actually read any of the stories you posted FM?

They deal primarily with children who were bullied,, not the bullies. What links these stories to two boys drawing stick figures?


Here's a little tidbit for ya:

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED  the 1930's 40's,
> 50's, 60's and 70's  !!
> >
> >  First, we survived being  born to mothers who
> smoked and/or drank
> > while
> > they  carried us.
> >
> >  They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and
> didn't get tested
> > for
> > diabetes.
> >
> > Then after  that trauma, our baby cribs were
> covered with bright
> > colored
> > lead-based  paints.
> >
> > We had no  childproof lids on medicine bottles,
> doors or cabinets and
> > when
> > we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to
> mention, the risks we
> > took hitchhiking.
> >
> > As  children, we would ride in cars with no seat
> belts or air bags.
> >
> > Riding in the  back of a pick up on a warm day was
> always a special
> > treat.
> >
> > We  drank water from the garden hose and NOT from
> a  bottle.
> >
> > We shared one  soft drink with four friends, from
> one bottle and NO
> > ONE
> > actually died from  this.
> >  
> > We ate cupcakes,  bread and butter and drank soda
> pop with sugar init,
> > but
> > we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS
> OUTSIDE  PLAYING!
> >
> > We would  leave home in the morning and play all
> day, as long as we
> > were
> > back when the streetlights came  on.
> >
> > No one was able to  reach us all day. And we were
> O.K.
> >
> >
> > We would spend hours building our go-carts out of
> scraps and then  ride
> > down
> > the hill, only to find out  we forgot the brakes.
> After running
> > into  the bushes a few times, we learned to solve
> the  problem.
> >
> >  We did not  have Playstations, Nintendo's,
> X-boxes, no video games at
> > all,
> > no 99  channels on cable, no video tape movies, no
> surround sound,
> >
> > no  cell  phones, no personal computers, no
> Internet or Internet chat
> > rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside
> and found  them!
> >
> > We fell out of  trees, got cut, broke bones and
> teeth and there were
> > no
> > lawsuits  from these accidents.
> >
> > We made  up games with sticks and tennis balls and
> ate worms and
> > although
> > we were told it would happen, we did not put out
> very many eyes,
> > nor  did the worms  live in us  forever.
> >
> > We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and
> knocked on the door  or
> > rang
> > the bell, or just walked in  and talked to them!
> >
> >  Little League had tryouts and not everyone made
> the team. Those who
> > didn't had to learn to deal with  disappointment.
> Imagine  that!!
> >
> > The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke
> the law was unheard
> > of.
> > They actually sided with the  law!
> >
> > This generation  has produced some of the best
> risk-takers,  problem
> > solvers and inventors ever!
> >
> > The past 50 years have been an explosion of
> innovation and  new
> > ideas.
> >
> > We  had freedom, failure, success and
> responsibility, and we  learned
> > HOW
> > TO DEAL WITH IT  ALL!  And YOU are one  of them!
> CONGRATULATIONS!
> >
> > You might want to share this with others who have
> had the luck to  grow
> > up
> > as kids, before the lawyers  and the government
> regulated our lives
> > for
> > your own good.
> >
> >  
> >
> > Kind of makes you want to run through the house
> with scissors,  doesn't
> > it?

[wendl]

Isn't that the truth PD.

HE HE I loved this one:
We ate cupcakes, bread and butter and drank soda
> pop with sugar init,
> > but
> > we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS
> OUTSIDE PLAYING!
 We would leave home in the morning and play all
> day, as long as we
> > were
> > back when the streetlights came on.
> >
> > No one was able to reach us all day. And we were
> O.K.

My parents wouldn't allow us to be inside, which was fine with me, maybe that is why I am still skinny today, we do a lot of walking, riding bikes with my son etc. I do not allow my son to sit inside all day long.


Don't forget the teachers we also able to disapline kids too not this ok you did this wrong so you must sit in a room alone until your parents come for a meeting with the teacher, instead of giving the child SATURDAY SCHOOL or Weekend or after school detention or writing sentences until your hand hurts. What is that teaching out kids, this is what it taught my son, ok get in trouble right before you are suppose to go to class with the teacher you hate, you know mom or dad cannot make it down as they cannot get off work, so the child gets out of going to this class on purpose.

[Brent]

>It needs to be taken seriously.  I wonder if anyone
>disregarded these child murderers as harmless?

What the hell are you talking about? Are you actually so ignorant to believe that kids drawing pictures like this need to be arrested? That's the second stupidest thing I've heard in a long time. The original article about arresting these kids was the first.

Get a grip, and try thinking for yoursef sometime. It's not so scary once you get used to it.

[NoNicky]

Apparently these people have never heard of let alone seen the cartoons at stickdeath.com.  Some of which is really sick but a lot of which if really funny if you have the right mind set.


NoNicky
For God has not given a spirit of fear; but of power and of love and of a sound mind.  1 Peter 1:6