"You're a criminal. Criminals lie all the time."

[Bill]

15 year old Pennsylvania boy thrown in jail for 12 days, mistakenly accused of calling in a bomb threat - because school had forgotten to take into account daylight savings time.

This is american educational administration at it's finest.

http://www.passablynews.com/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1175830780

"Webb gave an insight into the school's impressive investigative techniques, saying that he was ushered in to see the principal, Kathy Charlton. She asked him what his phone number was, and , according to Webb, when he replied 'she started waving her hands in the air and saying “we got him, we got him.”'

'They just started flipping out, saying I made a bomb threat to the school,' he told local television station KDKA. After he protested his innocence, Webb says that the principal said: 'Well, why should we believe you? You're a criminal. Criminals lie all the time.'

All charges against Webb have now been dropped."

[Krome]

12 days when the voice didnt match and he hadnt previously shown any signs of bad behaviour.

The teacher should be in serious trouble for that. My mum is an English teacher (BTW her book on reading can still be purchased on Amazon "Pam Tainsh : Encouraging reading" - edit just checked you have to request it http://www.amazon.com/Specials-Encouraging-Writing-Pam-Tainsh/dp/185276287X/ref=sr_1_1/002-3489199-2028822?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176955467&sr=8-1 )

her view was never one that trust should be earned but that it should be given freely and in 99& of the cases it is not abused. To label kids criminals and keep referring to them in that way just creates a self fulfilling prophecy with the child and the behaviour will just get worse.

[Betty Blowtorch]

Great story. Hilarious and disgusting at the same time.

After being unjustly arrested and spending 12 days in jail,
that kid will make a fortune from the school district. Any
decent lawyer will have no trouble at all turning that kid
into a rich man before he's old enough to drink.

The principal who made the unjust accusation should
be summarily fired, and if she owns a house, the kid's
lawyer should sue her and take her house away and
leave her homeless on the street.

That would be justice.

[Betty Blowtorch]

Here's a link to the story from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribunereview/news/westmoreland/s_501066.html)


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Cody Webb, 15, of Hempfield, spent 12 days in juvenile detention
after he was mistakenly charged with phoning in a bomb threat.
His mother, Linda, called it "a nightmare."