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Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar
suntimes ^ | February 11, 2006

Posted on 02/11/2006 4:11:34 PM PST by Revel

Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar

BY JUSTINA WANG A 12-year-old Aurora boy who said he brought powdered sugar to school for a science project this week has been charged with a felony for possessing a look-alike drug, Aurora police have confirmed.

The sixth-grade student at Waldo Middle School was also suspended for two weeks from school after showing the bag of powdered sugar to his friends.

The boy, who is not being identified because he is a juvenile, said he brought the bag to school to ask his science teacher if he could run an experiment using sugar.

Two other boys asked if the bag contained cocaine after he showed it to them in the bathroom Wednesday morning, the boy's mother said.

He joked that it was cocaine, before telling them, "just kidding," she said.

Aurora police arrested the boy after a custodian at the school reported the boy's comments. The youngster was taken to the police station and detained, before being released to his parents that afternoon.

"This is getting ridiculous," said the boy's mother. "They treated my son like a criminal. .. . This is no way to treat a 12-year-old kid."

East Aurora School District officials declined to comment on the case, citing privacy issues.

The district issued a written statement, which said: "The dangers of illegal drugs and controlled substances are clear.

Could get probation "Look-alike drugs and substances can cause that same level of danger because staff and students are not equipped to differentiate between the two."

The school handbook states that students can be suspended or expelled for carrying a look-alike drug.

Penalties for juveniles are decided on a case-by-case basis, but if convicted, the sixth-grader could likely face up to five years' probation, said Jeffery Jefko, deputy director of Kane County juvenile court services.

Juveniles who have prior criminal records could also be placed in a residential treatment program if convicted, he said.

Aurora Beacon-News


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To: muawiyah
The kerosene residue from the manufacturing process, and possibly the sulphuric acid would give it away.

Prove it.

401 posted on 02/12/2006 10:12:59 PM PST by Mojave
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To: mysterio
Check out the look on his face. Junkie for sure!

This baby girl will spend the first month of her life at this drug treatment center...for newborns. "This is a baby born drug-exposed..." His mom used heroin and methadone.

http://www.truenorth.tv/addicted_090102.jsp

That bring a smile to your face?

402 posted on 02/12/2006 10:23:11 PM PST by Mojave
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To: Mojave
Fake cocaine did that?

And how about fetal alcohol syndrome?

Do you and paulsen have a photo archive of kids born to mothers who smoked marijuana? What other emotion based arguments do you guys have for dismantling the Constitution?

Kids get shot by guns, too.

But back on topic. You and paulsen support charging a kid with a felony for carrying a bag of sugar. That means you are an extremist zealot who should never again be taken seriously.
403 posted on 02/12/2006 10:52:51 PM PST by mysterio
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To: SoftballMominVA

Notice I didn't come down against the school.

The bag very well could have contained anything.

However, once the kid was found to have made a joke he should have had a good butt kicking and let go.

Oh! thats right you can't spank a child so we have to tie up our police to do what teachers used to do.

Glad I'm no longer in school, probably would be sitting in some jail with most of my class, for one of the many silly tricks pulled on the other students.


404 posted on 02/12/2006 11:32:44 PM PST by OKIEDOC (There's nothing like hearing someone say thank you for your help.)
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To: OKIEDOC

Just remember that if you teach children that they have no rights, nor freedoms, they intern will not consider you to have any rights or freedoms as well.


405 posted on 02/12/2006 11:35:11 PM PST by Paul C. Jesup
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To: Mojave

So you are for enslaving the children to 'save the children'?


406 posted on 02/12/2006 11:36:55 PM PST by Paul C. Jesup
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To: Paul C. Jesup

I think the last 40 years of liberally diversified schools are coming home to rest.


407 posted on 02/12/2006 11:55:24 PM PST by OKIEDOC (There's nothing like hearing someone say thank you for your help.)
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To: OKIEDOC
I think the last 40 years of liberally diversified schools are coming home to rest.

The statists on both the right and left made it so only sex is taught in school while at the same time turning the schools into prisons.

408 posted on 02/13/2006 2:29:42 AM PST by Paul C. Jesup
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To: Revel
The boy, who is not being identified because he is a juvenile

in other words, without a jury nor the public eye, authorities can f@(k him and the parents in their own authority privacy, brainwashing him and removing adequate representations.

this is a witch hunt against a good student with good parents. He should have known he's only there for their job, not for studying. He's a trouba maker for the mandated government aristocracy, and they're gona f@(k em.

409 posted on 02/13/2006 2:37:34 AM PST by JudgemAll (Condemn me, make me naked and kill me, or be silent for ever on my gun ownership and law enforcement)
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To: muawiyah
"We are truly in trouble if our teachers and school administrators are too stupid to tell the difference between cocaine and sugar."

We are, and they are.

410 posted on 02/13/2006 2:48:24 AM PST by RightOnline
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To: Junior_G
"They are too stupid. They're too stupid to do anything."

Oh? So what have you done that makes you so smart? I spent 24 years in the USAF, and then decided to be a teacher, and spent 7 years in college to make that happen. OK, so neither of them exactly make me look smart, but they don't necessarily make me stupid, either. Do you have to be so very freaking liberal, and condemn EVERYONE in a particular profession because you have issues with some in that profession? Jeeze....
411 posted on 02/13/2006 2:52:30 AM PST by Old Student (WRM, MSgt, USAF(Ret.))
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To: Revel

So when do we start Waco-style attacks on grocery stores? And I wonder if they're allowed to use sugar or flour in home economics?


412 posted on 02/13/2006 3:00:50 AM PST by gitmo (From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
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To: wintertime

I should have added a sarcasm off tag , wintertime. See:

Teen accused of stabbing mother 111 times pleads guilty

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576984/posts


413 posted on 02/13/2006 3:20:23 AM PST by bwteim (Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: mysterio
Fake cocaine did that?

No, that child was born addicted to heroin, another drug promoted by the dopers.

414 posted on 02/13/2006 4:00:39 AM PST by Mojave
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To: Paul C. Jesup
So you are for enslaving the children to 'save the children'?

So you claim that legalizing drugs will "free the children"?

415 posted on 02/13/2006 4:07:37 AM PST by Mojave
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To: The KG9 Kid

Amen to that.


416 posted on 02/13/2006 4:48:48 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: moog
"Aptly stated, though I think it could have been handled a little differently."

Given the school policy and Illinois law, I don't see how the principal could have handled it any other way. Or the janitor for that matter.

Given the fact that it actually turned out to be powdered sugar, I can say in hindsight that I wish it would have been handled differently.

417 posted on 02/13/2006 4:59:24 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: Know your rights
"This is cocaine", he said. He glances over to see the janitor listening in. "Just kidding, guys", he adds.

The janitor is expected to keep quiet about this?

418 posted on 02/13/2006 5:03:41 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: Mojave

Was it real heroin, or was it flour carried to school by a 12 year old?


419 posted on 02/13/2006 5:05:53 AM PST by mysterio
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To: takenoprisoner
"Alleged teacher" Typical. When someone presents with a personal experience that is different from what is expected the next "logical" step is to attack that person and call them a liar.

The hard line truth is this

I attended Christian schools my whole life

I attended a Christian college

I taught in Christian and Catholic schools for a significant part of my teaching time

I have never used drugs or been around anyone who did

At no time in any training at any place have I been shown actual drugs. I've seen pictures and that's it.

Not all of us have the same life experience. Maybe some posters here have handled illigal drugs through out their lives for a variety of reasons. I have not.

Of course, you can now call me a liar, which is your right, but you would be wrong.

420 posted on 02/13/2006 5:06:06 AM PST by Thoeting
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