Can't Understand This News Item I saw Yesterday... Arrested 5yo

**theveed** · April 25th, 2005 11:35 AM

5-Year-Old Cuffed and Arrested in Florida

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (March 18) - 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."

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Now that's f*cked up parenting right there...

**BlueBimmer** · April 25th, 2005 11:39 AM

lol arrested 5 yr old, baka possessed un haha

**Bogeyman** · April 25th, 2005 11:45 AM

"...when the little girl began acting silly."

Umiikot yung ulo, sumusuka at garalgal na yung boses ala Linda Blair sa Exorcist. :D

Parang ang OA naman yung ginawa nung mga pulis. Pero on the other hand, maraming mga bata sa States ang hindi sanay sa disiplina. Mapalo mo lang ng konti, child abuse na. Kaya lumalaking matitigas ang mga mukha eh.

**stinkaboy** · April 25th, 2005 11:52 AM

set my baby up? hehehe kakatawa na ermat

**ILuvDetailing** · April 25th, 2005 12:00 PM

Maybe she's suffering from ADD or some other mental disorder, what the parent should do is seek a counselor so that they can give medication or suggest a treatment

**nugundam93** · April 25th, 2005 12:22 PM

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

what the heck...?!

heheh.

**quiksie** · April 25th, 2005 12:23 PM

grbe naman yun parang yun bata ay papatay kaya hinandcuffs

**Monseratto** · April 25th, 2005 08:14 PM

Racially motivated?

US police handcuff five-year-old

A lawyer has threatened to sue police officers who handcuffed an allegedly uncontrollable five-year-old after she acted up at a Florida kindergarten.
The officers were called by the school after a teacher and assistant principal failed to calm down the little girl.

The incident was caught on a video camera which was rolling in the classroom as part of a self-improvement exercise at the St Petersburg school.

A lawyer for the girl's mother said the episode was "incomprehensible".

The video, made public by the lawyer this week, shows the unfolding of the violent tantrum, which started when the little girl refused to take part in a maths lesson.

She then ripped some papers off a bulletin board and lashed out at staff trying to calm her down.

After calling her mother and learning she would not be able to pick up the child for at least one more hour, the teachers resorted to calling the police.

Three officers rushed to the scene and handcuffed the girl, by that time apparently calm, after pinning her arms behind her back.

The footage showed her in distress after being handcuffed.

They finally drove her to her mother in the back of a police cruiser.

The St Petersburg Police Department declined to comment on the incident and said an investigation was under way.

To watch the video please click on this link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4475513.stm#