Posted on 10/27/2010 3:00:57 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
A Connecticut woman is facing charges for allegedly sending her 12-year-old to school with weapons to protect himself from bullies, MyFoxBoston.com reports.
Police say 38-year-old Sylvia Mojica gave her son a BB gun and folding knife to carry with him at school on Friday.
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This is sad. The schools do nothing about the bullies.
Those bullies would have left him alone once he’d shot their eyes out. :)
She should be charged with child endangerment. If you're going to give a kid a weapon for self defense, give a weapon that can actually take down an assailant.
Good gracious: a picture of mom would have been enough.
A sharpened #2 pencil in the right hands, and “Yikes!”
Guilty! Death penalty!
I’ve always said that the best way for parents to handle bullies is to hire bigger bullies.
The "yeah boss" toadies will back off once you do that. I used it once and it worked. No more bullies after that.
I don’t know anything about this case but a defense of ‘necessity’ would bring official malpractice, if any, to light. However, Mojica doesn’t look like she has enough money to do anything but plead out.
If the kid looks anything like her he needs weapons.
Not that it matters because this happened in CT, but will this mother get a jury trial?
Reminds me of an incident that happened in high school.
Buddy of mine was sitting there, trying to get some work done. The class idiot kept bugging my buddy. My buddy told him to knock it of or else.
Class idiot didn’t and took a sharpened pencil to the thigh.
After the class idiot yelped about taking a pencil to the thigh, my buddy calmly said “I warned you.”
I may be reading into this too much but I have sympathy for someone in her position. From the story, she appears to be poor and not in a position to defend her son from getting bullied so she did what she could—give him a weapon to defend himself—and now is in trouble for it. This is the type of case where mercy should come into play and some authority figure should expand the investigation to see if the kid was getting bullied and, if so, stop it before someone does get hurt.
The schools do nothing, so this is rational.
I put 8 penny nails in a length of broom handle and wrapped it tightly with leather bootlaces on one occaision at that age.
Whatever is needed, if the bullies parents or the school didnt want the bullies hurt or killed, they would stop them before it comes to this.
So true. And this is nothing new. They didn't do anything about them 60 years ago. Fighting back is often not the answer because bullies, who are often cowards, hunt in packs.
Fight back and the victim will run into the school’s zero tolerance against fighting. This happened to me many, many years ago but better than being picked on.
My guess is there is no father. I feel sorry for her and her son. She probably works and is trying to keep things afloat. The schools are like hell.
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