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Originally posted by Dionysus
I don't think they should've been charged for felonies, but I think that drawing should've been taken very seriously.
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I agree.
I know that kids will be kids and they sometimes do this kind of stuff but these drawings are pretty graphic. It's all over the news here in Orlando (Ocala is only a few miles away) so I heard about this a few days ago. This kid had been getting bullied, picked on, and threatened for a while by these boys.
I think we've all drawn pictures of classmates when we were younger. I know I drew some mean pictures of some of mine (but that's because I was snotty
). BUT.... I never drew a picture that showed me stabbing my classmate and blood pouring out of them. I never drew pictures that depicted me killing or harming a student. I think the meanest thing I did when it came to cartoon classmates was drawing a picture of the smelly kid (every elementary school classroom has one) killing everyone else in the class from his stench. The teacher made me sit in the corner for that one. hmpf.
I don't think the authorities arrested these kids to punish them and make them do jail time. I think the main reason was to curtail any violent tendencies before it got out of hand. These kids have bullied this boy before and have made threats. Their pictures are pretty brutal. What happens when these kids are 15 years old? Will it stay just a cartoon drawing? We don't know and I don't think the authorities wanted to take that chance. The point was to let these kids know now, when they're young, that this is unacceptable.