Children Charged With Felonies Over Violent Drawings
POSTED: 7:00 am EST January 26, 2005
OCALA, Fla. -- Two schoolboys in Florida are under arrest, accused of drawing violent stick figures that showed a classmate getting stabbed.
The 9- and 10-year-old boys from a special education class in Ocala were hauled away in handcuffs, charged with a felony of threatening another person.
Police said the child depicted in the pencil-and-crayon drawings complained to his teacher, who alerted school authorities who called police.
One drawing shows two children stabbing the boy with knives. Another shows the victim hanging, with tears falling from his eyes. Other pieces of paper contained the victim's name and misspelled profanities.
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POSTED: 7:00 am EST January 26, 2005
OCALA, Fla. -- Two schoolboys in Florida are under arrest, accused of drawing violent stick figures that showed a classmate getting stabbed.
The 9- and 10-year-old boys from a special education class in Ocala were hauled away in handcuffs, charged with a felony of threatening another person.
Police said the child depicted in the pencil-and-crayon drawings complained to his teacher, who alerted school authorities who called police.
One drawing shows two children stabbing the boy with knives. Another shows the victim hanging, with tears falling from his eyes. Other pieces of paper contained the victim's name and misspelled profanities.
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