Police Charge Ohio 10-Year-Old For Bringing BB Gun to School

A 10 year old boy from Ohio is facing delinquency public order charges after taking a BB gun to school in a bid to get bullies to leave him alone.

A 10 year old boy in Ohio has been charged with the delinquency count of inducing panic after bringing a BB gun to school to fend off bullies. He had been ‘stuffed in a trashcan’ the previous year and was being bullied about his small stature and ankle braces.

The police were called by the Elmwood Place Elementary School in Cincinnati, near the end of the school day after he received reports from at least five children that they had seen the boy with the gun. Police Sergeant Kevin Vanover noted that the plastic orange tip had been broken off to make the gun look more authentic.

The film ‘Bully’ opened at the end of last month. Its goal is to raise awareness of the suffering caused by bullying and the lives destroyed as a direct result. The current incident highlights once again how either bullying has gotten worse, or modern students are less able to deal with, as an increasing number of victims are snapping and resorting to self-harm or attention seeking behavior.

Bullying victims are starting to use the internet to hit back at their persecutors, and a major recent story on Reddit resulted in a school being forced to take action against a bully after receiving numerous complaints from people reading the bullied girl’s story.

In the specific current case:

The district released a statement saying that federal and state law prohibits school officials from discussing specifics.

District officials intend “to fully investigate the allegations made regarding all of the students involved” to determine any violations of school regulations, according to the statement.

The boy’s name has not been released, he remains in his mother’s custody and the date for the Juvenile Court hearing has not yet been set. There are no current plans to take action against the boy’s bullies or the school.

Comments

  1. Kevin
    April 21, 2012 at 9:29 am

    Of course he shouldn’t have brought a gun to school but where the hell were the teachers, administrators? Was anyone in charge at that school, or was it a setting for an elaborate Lord of Flies-type experiment. Kid should have been disciplined, not charged, but everyone from the principle on down to the teachers of the kids who bullied this boy should be fired.

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    • Mike
      April 24, 2012 at 6:36 am

      Come on Kevin, you sound like you’ve been in a classroom or hallways. You know everything said between kids at all times? Fire them all??

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  2. Jenn Fraser
    April 21, 2012 at 9:30 am

    “There are no current plans to take action against the boy’s bullies or the school.”

    Reading this makes me want to weep.

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  3. Semeeah
    April 24, 2012 at 5:35 am

    The police shouldn’t have charge the 10 yr old boy because he just wants to get back to them.I know that if somebody bully me I wouldn’t just stand around or neither bring a gun to school because it’s not safe and you can kill somebody that didn’t do anything to you and that won’t be good.The teachers should have just grab the gun away from the boy and put it away instead calling the police because he had a gun.I know that you shouldn’t even bring a gun to school for your protection.He wants to stand up to them,but he shouldn’t have done that though.It’s very bad thing he did and if he did kill somebody that was innocent then he be in big trouble and starting to be guilty what he did.

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