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
Yes it has. Thank you for conceding my point. So why do you want the principal to ignore that and act as though it's 1950 and not report the kid. Are you crazy?
I honestly don't remember, but I doubt it. We probably went to the cafeteria kitchen to get it, but bringing a big baggie of sugar probably wouldn't have been that big a deal, unless we tried to sell it as cocaine. On the other hand, that same year, I brought a shotgun and shells to my speech class, when we have to give a 5 minute lecture on "doing something." Mine was gun safety. I had to leave the shotgun and shells in the school office, and went to get it before class, then returned it after class.
Oh yeah... Pretty much everyone in my class carried a knife on their belt too.
Mark
-- This type of thing is happening in ~your~ world amigo, one that communitarian people like you have fashioned.
In rational days, back only 50 years ago or so, every kid that wanted to had a pocket knife, and because they did it was no big deal.
-- Sure, at times there were fights that involved knives, but the kids that used knives lost face and were ostracized as cheap hoods. -- Not to speak of ending up in reform school or jail. [because they were turned in]
But thats all changed now. -- The robertaulsen's of the world rule, prohibiting everything. Solving nothing.
~ Yes it has. Thank you for conceding my point.
Thank you for admitting your communitarian prohibitions solve nothing.
So why do you want the principal to ignore that and act as though it's 1950 and not report the kid.
As usual robby you play your silly word games about positions I haven't taken. --- "Are you crazy"?
We used both sugar and salt in crystalization experiemtns. The sugar was also partly as a treat, making rock candy.
Mark
We used both sugar and salt in crystalization experiments. The sugar was also partly as a treat, making rock candy.
Mark
We used both sugar and salt in crystalization experiments. The sugar was also partly as a treat, making rock candy.
Mark
Powdered sugar? Isn't that a little expensive, when plain old sugar will do the job?
Well, since you chose to respond to a post I made to someone else, I just assumed you also took their position.
Yeah. I keep my cocaine in the sugar bowl and the sugar in little baggies just to throw them off.
OH NO! I've just committed a FELONY! (even though there isn't really any cocaine)
Joking about cocaine is a felony? I forgot, to some it is SOOOOOOO serious you dare not joke.
I think some are actually hiding something in their bodily orifices considering how tightly they're holding their sphincters.
Yep. The type you want legalized.
You run out?
It's not legal to sell children smokes and beer.
Or is that part of your plan to "free" them?
Swallowing camels.
-- This type of thing is happening in ~your~ world amigo, one that communitarian people like you have fashioned.
In rational days, back only 50 years ago or so, every kid that wanted to had a pocket knife, and because they did it was no big deal.
-- Sure, at times there were fights that involved knives, but the kids that used knives lost face and were ostracized as cheap hoods. -- Not to speak of ending up in reform school or jail. [because they were turned in]
But thats all changed now. -- The robertaulsen's of the world rule, prohibiting everything. Solving nothing.
~ Yes it has. Thank you for conceding my point.
Thank you for admitting your communitarian prohibitions solve nothing.
So why do you want the principal to ignore that and act as though it's 1950 and not report the kid.
As usual robby you play your silly word games about positions I haven't taken.
Well, since you chose to respond to a post I made to someone else,
Well.. So what? I made my own position clear, as anyone can read, just above.
I just assumed you also took their position.
You make a lot of weird 'assumptions' robby. You imagine it's a clever way to debate. -- Poor you. It only shows your duplicity.
Whatever fits his agenda.
Yet you seem to think that if illegal drugs are legalized that children will be allowed to use them like they were candy, as opposed to how smoking and beer is regulated. That is the logical gap in your thinking.
That seems to be your agenda.
Bring on the welfare entitlements!
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