5-year-old cuffed, arrested in Florida
Mar 18, 2005 (ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.) — A 5-year-old girl was arrested, cuffed and put in back of a police cruiser after an outburst at school where she threw books and boxes, kicked a teacher in the shins, smashed a candy dish, hit an assistant principal in the stomach and drew on the walls.

The students were counting jelly beans as part of a math exercise at Fairmount Park Elementary School when the little girl began acting silly. That's when her teacher took away her jelly beans, outraging the child.

Minutes later, the 40-pound girl was in the back of a police cruiser, under arrest for battery. Her hands were bound with plastic ties, her ankles in handcuffs.

"I don't want to go to jail," she said moments after her arrest Monday.

No charges were filed and the girl went home with her mother.

While police say their actions were proper, school officials were not pleased with the outcome.

"We never want to have 5-year-old children arrested," said Michael Bessette, the district's Area III superintendent.

The district's campus police should have been called to help and not local police, he said.

Bessette said campus police routinely deal with children and are trained to calm them in such situations.

Under the district's code of student conduct, students are to be suspended for 10 days and recommended for expulsion for unprovoked attacks, even if they don't result in serious injury. But district spokesman Ron Stone said that rule wouldn't apply to kindergartners.

"She's been appropriately disciplined under the circumstances," he said.

The girl's mother, Inda Akins, said she is consulting an attorney.

"She's never going back to that school," Akins said. "They set my baby up."

I saw this last night... I was a bit like...

Well, thats what happens when you take candy from a child. What the fuck was that teacher thinking?

OnionJuice said:

I am sorry... but true in a sick warped kinda way.

this was already covered.... and spoken about..

TheRealFiness said:

tell em

jerseykrs said:

so what if we are not with the program.

Freespirit said:

are you getting snippy with me?


psshhhhh

jerseykrs said:

I didn't have my coffee this morning...

NPGofFlorida said:

Sounds like the kid has serious anger issues. And the mom saying that they set her daughter up, I'm wondering what she means by that?

I don't think it's right to arrest a 5 year old, but to pretend like it, hell yeah. This girl sounds like she's out of control and some of these out of control kids need the bejeezus scared out of em

TheRealFiness said:

Exactly. Anyway, we talked about this nut case kid on the org already.

I literally just finished reading some of THE most racist things ever about this girl on AOL message boards. NOTHING has changed in this country. Tolerance is a word for people who use Privilege tampons.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I AGREE WITH YOU 300%
IF I WAS THAT LITTLE GIRL AND MY MOTHER SAW ME ACTING LIKE THAT MY MOM WOULD HAVE KNOCKED THE CRAP OUT OF ME FOR HITTING AN ADULT!

jerseykrs said:

cus i KNOW she wasnt gettin snippy wit me
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debbiedean2 said:

Same Here. Unfortunately, this is not the case now b/c you have babies raising babies and they feel their child can't do no wrong. All to often, the mother of the badass kid is a child her self and can't raise the kid worth a damn and leaves the damn district to do it. So, with this kind of shit going on, I have to commend the pricipal for standing by his teacher and getting the little hell raising heathen out the building.

Hotlegs said:

debbiedean2 said:

I am glad you can relate. b/cd ealing with shit as educator can really wear thin on my nerves. It is good when I can vent and exhale.

If we as black folks valued education instead of sports,rap and the latest bullshit that they want us to get into. Maybe we'd have more black educators. I saw that shit on the news and you know what... that girl needed her ass whipped. When I was 5 they would have did it in is school.
always complaining about the white police officer doing their jobs. What would you say if they were black cops. Black folks need to wake the fuck up everyone can't be a thug, NBA star,rapper and a fool. We have to start being apart of this society. There was a time when we had black teachers ,education,respect and black pride ment something. That little girl made us all look bad. Blame her mom and blame her.

BlackMiles said:

I think I agree on this one with you But you can't blame that little girl It's all she knows, so blame her mum!

This looks like a set up, actually. The girl was told to act the way she did by the teacher

Maybe you can't even blaim the mom. My son is autistic (Active but Odd, diagnosed a few weeks ago) and because he lives in his own, very difficult world, doesn't understand and can't make people uderstand him he gets very frustrated. If someone took something away from him he would probably hit that person too! He HAS to finisch what he started
It can be a disease people!! Don't judge too fast.
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More... at first I tought i was a bad mom..I tought It was because of me he didn't listen, was banging into people, taking him ages to fall asleep at night, he can't sit still, walks away constantly,...and lots more.
That's what I thought. But it isn't me!!
He looks like a normal kid..but in his mind there's someting not right.
He has an IQ of 126 !! he's not stupid!!
Now that I know how to handle him, things are much better.
Oh..and he is six years old! And beautiful and smart and I love him sooooo much!!

HowComeYouDontCallme said:

I'm sorry never had to deal with this so maybe my post was a little too quick without thinking show me some pictures of that smart one, please?

HowComeYouDontCallme said:

Go tell 'm Jommeke! I think it's stupid to arrest a lil girl like that.
If she gives trouble, like she did, she should be comforted or send home so her mom can deal with it.
They should give the mother help to find out what's causing the anger outburst. Arresting a 5 year old please!!

AndGodCreatedMe said:

There you go! My beautiful boy!

Whateva said:

Wasn't easy..but if it helps to make people more openminded...

Whateva said:

Jajaja....but sometimes you need to set boundries, sick or not
arresting is out of the question if u ask me. that only can happen in the States with handcuffs, a 5 yr old??

Anyway Marion I'm g;ad that they have diagnosed your son so you can help him more with the difficulties that he has to face

HowComeYouDontCallme said:

HE IS CUTE!!!!

AndGodCreatedMe said:

Yep, and I know him, he's a sweet boy, nothing wrong with him, just a bit more complicated than most kids. The sweetest little hart that just gets hurt very easily.