[10-year-old] Student Arrested After Cutting Food With Knife

Local 6.com ^ | 12/14/07

[MotleyGirl70]

An elementary student in Marion County was arrested Thursday after school officials found her cutting food during lunch with a knife that she brought from home, police said.

The 10-year-old girl, a student at Sunrise Elementary School in Ocala, was charged possession of a weapon on school property, which is a felony.

According to authorities, school employees spotted the girl cutting her food while she was eating lunch and took the steak knife from her.

The girl told sheriff's deputies that she had brought the knife to school on more than one occasion in the past.

Students told officials that the girl did not threaten anyone with the knife.

The girl was arrested and transported to the Juvenile Assessment Center.

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[microgood]

Gardeners often wield sharp tools. These folks would not be safe with same.

Good point. Maybe they could pick fruit.

[mamelukesabre]

WHat the heck makes you think it wasn’t a sack lunch with a left over steak in it?!?!

Hence the STEAK knife?!?!

[nicmarlo]

Apparently, she's been charged, and the school has, as I thought, a "zero tolerance policy".

Girl charged, brings knife to school to cut steak

This is absurd.

[editor-surveyor]

A steak knife is now a weapon?

And for the last six decades I’ve been misled into believing that they were eating utensils...

[OCC]

The closest thing we had to steak in school was Salisbury steak, and you could cut that with a dull spoon.

[PROCON]

He tied a Christmas tree on top of my car.

Don't you mean a Holiday tree?/s

[editor-surveyor]

It says that she was cutting her food.

[Graybeard58]

The girl told sheriff's deputies that she had brought the knife to school on more than one occasion in the past.

Repeat offender? Hang her.

[RightOnline]

ummm......sorry, but I’d be standing on the pinhead principal’s desk, dragging him out of his chair, and telling him to get my daughter back and her record expunged RIGHT F**KING NOW.

[PhatHead]

When Freepers and DUmmies are both outgraged at this kind of crap, yet it still happens, it certainly answers the question of whether we still have a government by the people... let me out of the "village!"

[editor-surveyor]

"Good thing she wasn't found to be in the possession of a peanut."

Chemical/Biological weapon of mass ingestion ;o)

[capt. norm]

She should have pulled out a chain saw....they’re legal.

[hoosierham]

Why do people tolerate such asinine policies?

[TruthConquers]

Leave your kids in the trust of the idiotcrats, and this is what you get.

Parents, the government schools are not for education, they are for indoctrination only. Use with extreme caution.

[MotleyGirl70]

I ran a search on this article and nothing came up at the time I planned to post it and I was preparing this thread to post when obviously the other FReeper posted his. Thanks for your concern on think I didn’t run a search on this story.

[The Electrician]

The girl told sheriff's deputies that she had brought the knife to school on more than one occasion in the past.

Undoubtedly that means that they will now up the charges from the original felonious act - I figure that there will be at least two counts in the indictment, but likely more. They can probably add charges for concealing the 'weapon' as well as for transporting it. This kid is gonna have three strikes against her by the time she reaches eleven - if she so much as jaywalks in the future, they will put her away forever.

[roaddog727]

I just don’t know what to say.

WOW.

[Charlespg]

I support flogging for the school employees who caused all of this

BINGO

[Publius6961]

Another story for my "Woman Arrested for Petting Dog" collection.
Some headline writers are brain dead.

[eyedigress]

Just wait until they find out the little demons are bringing Inscisors every day. The Horror of it all!