Public enemy #1 "arrested"
13-Year-Old Arrested In School For Writing On Desk
CBS) NEW YORK In this day and age where young students are frequently charged for serious school offenses such as possessing weapons, dealing drugs, or assaulting other students on school property, one Brooklyn teen's arrest may come as a surprise. A 13-year-old girl was handcuffed and placed under arrest in front of her classmates in Dyker Heights after she wrote "Okay" on her desk.
The "suspect," Chelsea Fraser, says she's sorry for scribbling the word on her desk, but both she and her mother are shocked at the punishment.
"I'm appalled, because here we have rapists, murderers, and you're taking a 13-year-old kid? Wasting valuable manpower to arrest a child who wrote on a desk?" Fraser's mother Diana Silva told CBS 2.Police confirm that that's exactly what's written on her arrest record and for the crime, she's been charged with criminal mischief and the making of graffiti. Fraser says the day she marked her desk, she was wrongly grouped together with troublemakers who had plastered stickers all over the classroom.
Fraser was arrested at the Dyker Heights Intermediate School on March 30 along with three other male students. She says she was made to empty her pockets and take off her belt. Then she was handcuffed and led out of the school in front of her classmates and placed in the back of a police car.
"It was really embarrassing because some of the kids, they talk, and they're going to label me as a bad kid. But I'm really not," Fraser said. "I didn't know writing 'Okay' would get me arrested."
"All the kids were ... watching these three boys and my daughter being marched out with four -- they had four police officers -- walking them out, handcuffed," Silva said. "She goes to me, 'Mommy, these hurt!'"
The students were taken to the 68th Precinct station house where Silva says they were separated for three hours. "MY child is 13-years-old -- doesn't it stand that I'm supposed to be present for any questioning?" Silva said. "I'm watching my daughter, she's handcuffed to the pole. I ask the officer has she been there the entire time? She says, 'Yes.'"
On her report card, under conduct, Fraser has earned all "satisfactory" marks and one "excellent" mark.
"My daughter just wrote something on a desk. I would have her scrub it with Soft Scrub on a Saturday morning when she should be out playing, and maybe a day of in-house and a formal apology to the principal," Silva said.
CBS 2 contacted both the NYPD and the Board of Education for a response. The police say the arrests followed a request by the school's principal. The Board of Education said the matter is under investigation, adding that graffiti was found on several desks.
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CBS) NEW YORK In this day and age where young students are frequently charged for serious school offenses such as possessing weapons, dealing drugs, or assaulting other students on school property, one Brooklyn teen's arrest may come as a surprise. A 13-year-old girl was handcuffed and placed under arrest in front of her classmates in Dyker Heights after she wrote "Okay" on her desk.
The "suspect," Chelsea Fraser, says she's sorry for scribbling the word on her desk, but both she and her mother are shocked at the punishment.
"I'm appalled, because here we have rapists, murderers, and you're taking a 13-year-old kid? Wasting valuable manpower to arrest a child who wrote on a desk?" Fraser's mother Diana Silva told CBS 2.Police confirm that that's exactly what's written on her arrest record and for the crime, she's been charged with criminal mischief and the making of graffiti. Fraser says the day she marked her desk, she was wrongly grouped together with troublemakers who had plastered stickers all over the classroom.
Fraser was arrested at the Dyker Heights Intermediate School on March 30 along with three other male students. She says she was made to empty her pockets and take off her belt. Then she was handcuffed and led out of the school in front of her classmates and placed in the back of a police car.
"It was really embarrassing because some of the kids, they talk, and they're going to label me as a bad kid. But I'm really not," Fraser said. "I didn't know writing 'Okay' would get me arrested."
"All the kids were ... watching these three boys and my daughter being marched out with four -- they had four police officers -- walking them out, handcuffed," Silva said. "She goes to me, 'Mommy, these hurt!'"
The students were taken to the 68th Precinct station house where Silva says they were separated for three hours. "MY child is 13-years-old -- doesn't it stand that I'm supposed to be present for any questioning?" Silva said. "I'm watching my daughter, she's handcuffed to the pole. I ask the officer has she been there the entire time? She says, 'Yes.'"
On her report card, under conduct, Fraser has earned all "satisfactory" marks and one "excellent" mark.
"My daughter just wrote something on a desk. I would have her scrub it with Soft Scrub on a Saturday morning when she should be out playing, and maybe a day of in-house and a formal apology to the principal," Silva said.
CBS 2 contacted both the NYPD and the Board of Education for a response. The police say the arrests followed a request by the school's principal. The Board of Education said the matter is under investigation, adding that graffiti was found on several desks.
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All I can say is, wow. How rediculous can you get. 0 -
no wonder McLane is a ticked off alcoholic, he works with real f**heads [:p]
one question you gots to be asking yourself is: are the GBUs better deployed unto the school district or the preceint?0 -
American cant possibly arrest and deport illegal aliens but we sure can arrest the poop out of 13 yr olds, lol 0 -
I'm just worried they're going to arrest my 2-year-old nephew for pooping on the floor if his diapers happen to leak. 0 -
the bassackwards nanny state strikes again. 0 -
Another example of people that don't think ahead.....[xx(] 0 -
Maybe I'm looking at it from the flip side of the coin. And, maybe it has to do with the fact that I live in a rather nice neighborhood and I'm getting very sick of graffiti vandals, along with the considerable expense we're paying to clean up their acts of vandalism. So, I'll freely admit my bias here.
My guess is that this girl will likely never vandalize something again.
There's a theory out there, and I believe it can be attributed to Rudi Guiliani (one of the few things he did right). You go after the people who break windows and spray paint buildings, instead of ignoring them, and crime will go down. It worked in NYC.
Denver has a horrible vandalism problem right now, and they've got a mayor that refuses to do anything. The problem has become so bad that the vandals have moved into the suburbs. We're a whole county away from Denver and they're pretty much destroying this neighborhood.
And, of course, since we live on the county border (literally), neither our county sheriff or the neighboring county sheriff wants to do anything about it -- it is always the "other" county's problem.
I think it is good that this girl got arrested. Let her be made an example of. Even her classmates might think twice about it at this point. Sure, it is only a school desk, but if vandalism is a problem, the way to nip it in the bud is to punish the vandals.
If this was the side of your home she had written "Okay" on instead of a school desk, or if she carved "Okay" in the paint of your pickup truck, my guess is that you'd be looking for her head on a silver platter.0 -
Punishment should fit the 'crime'. The child should have simply been required to pay for the cost of replacing the desk, through working at the school. Maybe cleaning the cafeteria or dumping trash or washing windows. Criminal? I don't think so. I still be in jail, today, if I got prosecuted for all the gum I stuck under desks over the years. 0 -
I got caught writing on a desk when I was 11 years old.
I had to stay after school and scrub the desk clean with a brillo pad and some comet.
Then, I had to write on the blackboard 100 times, "I will not write on the desk."
That cured me of writing on desks.
Call the cops? That is insane.0
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