6 YEAR OLD BOY ARRESTED FOR BEATING AND THREATENING PRINCIPAL

 

Police in a small Indiana town hauled a
six-year-old from his elementary school and charged
him with battery and intimidation after he kicked and
threatened a principal, police said on Wednesday.
The incident followed one earlier in April where police
handcuffed a 6-year-old girl who was screaming and
crying and had injured a principal and damaged
property at an elementary school in Milledgeville,
Georgia. She was not charged.
The Indiana student, who had been suspended from
school recently for biting and hitting a staff member,
was arrested April 18 at Hendricks Elementary
School in Shelbyville, which is about 30 miles
southeast of Indianapolis.
"This was not an isolated incident," Shelbyville Police
Lieutenant Michael Turner said.
School officials called police, reporting that the
student, who was not identified, had kicked Principal
Patrick Lumbley and told him and Assistant Principal
Jessica Poe that he was going to kill them, a
Shelbyville police report said.
The student was yelling and screaming and lying on
the floor of Poe's office when police arrived, the
report said.
Poe led the student to a police car where an officer
placed him in the back seat, buckled him in and
drove him to the police department, the report said.
He was not handcuffed.
Turner said he hoped the filing of juvenile charges
would help get the child needed help.
"Putting him into the system can open up avenues
perhaps the parents don't have," Turner said.