For some reason...I don't think so :(




5-year-old cuffed, arrested in Florida


Mar 18, 2005 (ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.) — A 5-year-old girl was arrested, cuffed and put in back of a police cruiser after an outburst at school where she threw books and boxes, kicked a teacher in the shins, smashed a candy dish, hit an assistant principal in the stomach and drew on the walls.

The students were counting jelly beans as part of a math exercise at Fairmount Park Elementary School when the little girl began acting silly. That's when her teacher took away her jelly beans, outraging the child.

Minutes later, the 40-pound girl was in the back of a police cruiser, under arrest for battery. Her hands were bound with plastic ties, her ankles in handcuffs.

"I don't want to go to jail," she said moments after her arrest Monday.

No charges were filed and the girl went home with her mother.

While police say their actions were proper, school officials were not pleased with the outcome.

"We never want to have 5-year-old children arrested," said Michael Bessette, the district's Area III superintendent.

The district's campus police should have been called to help and not local police, he said.

Bessette said campus police routinely deal with children and are trained to calm them in such situations.

Under the district's code of student conduct, students are to be suspended for 10 days and recommended for expulsion for unprovoked attacks, even if they don't result in serious injury. But district spokesman Ron Stone said that rule wouldn't apply to kindergartners.

"She's been appropriately disciplined under the circumstances," he said.

The girl's mother, Inda Akins, said she is consulting an attorney.

"She's never going back to that school," Akins said. "They set my baby up." <end>


What do you all think of this? Personally I think that with all the Major Crime going on in the world, Our Law Enforcement officers should be able to find better things to do than raiding Kindergartens and both arresting and handcuffing little 5 year old girls :rolleyes:



Heres the link: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/strange/031805_ap_sn_5yrold_arrest.html:

Originally posted by Dunkirk101

5-year-old cuffed, arrested in Florida


Mar 18, 2005 (ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.) — A 5-year-old girl was arrested, cuffed and put in back of a police cruiser after an outburst at school where she threw books and boxes, kicked a teacher in the shins, smashed a candy dish, hit an assistant principal in the stomach and drew on the walls.

I think it was not necessary, a good spanking and time out should have been enough. Although the reaction of the girl wasn't normal....she was too angry for such small age.

Originally posted by Dunkirk101

The girl's mother, Inda Akins, said she is consulting an attorney.

"She's never going back to that school," Akins said. "They set my baby up."

The mother can consult a lawyer, but she has to think whether other things would come up during the case. Usually little kids are afraid of authority figures and want to fit with their peers...when there is an anger issue, usually it is due to problems outside school.

Once they got the real cops involved, I can see why they handcuffed the kid - that's usually departmental policy to handcuff someone before they are taken in. But they didn't need to get the real cops involved.

I can see that the mother is a major part of the problem, though.

I'll volunteer to give that brat a real reason to be mad.

What she needs is some good old fashioned discipline and some extra chores.

Actually, it sounds like she is a very disturbed child, either from her upbringing or some emotional disorder.

I agree with Echo. That is why children in America tend to go out of control. Parents are working 24/7 and they do not have time to discipline their children.

ooooo if my parents were that little girls parents, I guarantee you she'd be dead already.

Might be the best thing that could have happened to the kid. Any child that acts out like that is showing serious symptoms of disturbance. Hopefully that will be noticed amongst all the hoopla.

And the mother's comment is bizarre. "They set my baby up?"

Originally posted by DracRomin
they do not have time to discipline their children.

But they do have time to actively dismiss the seriousness of their kid's behavior.

In today's day in age, I don't blame the school for deciding to call the police at all. We live in a terribly restricted society, and because of it, parents are no longer able to punish their children by swiftly kicking them in the ass and neither are teachers. If the campus police were involved and they restricted her movements by forcibly restraining her out of control ass, then the potential exists for her parents to call into question their application of punishment by suing them. It's gotten to the point of me fearing parenthood for exactly that reason. Schools are limited and so are moms and dads everywhere. In the 50's, guns were readily available to the masses, yet kids weren't offing people in record numbers by entering public places with the intention of killing others. Why are they doing it now??? Because, IMO, the parents spawned by the asswiping flower power generation screwed everything up, that's why. Nowadays, any form of "punishment" other than holding a family intervention is frowned upon. Our kids can't read, and our parents can't parent; what do you expect?

The pigs in Tucson tazered a 9 year old girl who was already in handcuffs and in the back seat of a police car.

And this little gem

Autistic Teenager Is Beaten by Deputies After Being Mistaken for a Prowler

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBDXKXEM6E.html

"When Cowell didn't respond to the officers' commands, they used a baton, stun gun and pepper spray to subdue him."

Why all three?

What a load of shit, 500. :rolleyes:

When a woman FRANTICALLY CALLS the police at 2:00 in the morning claiming that someone is trying to gain entry into her home, the cops are going to respond pretty quickly. The kicker is, when the police arrive, he RAN at them, bumped into one of them, and didn't respond to their commands. The cops aren't social workers - they're cops. They deal with all types of people who can't speak after consuming copious quantities of alcohol and illicit narcotics, and they used standard textbook procedures to subdue him, nothing more - nothing less.

As far as I'm concerned, the mother of this man should have to draft a letter of apology to the neighbor, apologize to the police force while assuring them that it WON'T happen again, and pay for her son’s medical expenses.

I have to agree with prae on this one. Cops have no idea who they are dealing with when they aproach this type of situation. What looks like a crazed drug adict could very well be a confused mentally handicapped person. The police have a responsibility to protect themselves too.

Yeah, I'm with Prae as well. Cops aren't psychic, and it's not like the guy had a big sign around his neck that said "AUTISTIC!"