A 5-year-old Pennsylvania girl who told another girl she was going to shoot her with a pink Hello Kitty toy gun that blows soapy bubbles has been suspended from kindergarten.
Her family has hired an attorney to fight the punishment, which initially was 10 days for issuing a 'terroristic threat.' But her punishment was reduced to two days after her mother met with school officials and had the incident dropped to 'threatening to harm another student,' which apparently carries a lesser punishment.
"It's laughable," Robin Ficker, the girl's attorney told FoxNews.com. "This is a girl who had no idea about killing or what happened in Connecticut."
He was referring to the recent shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School that claimed 26 lives.
Ficker says Mount Carmel Area School District officials said the girl made the threat on Jan. 10 as she waited for a school bus with friends. A school official overheard the remark and searched the girl's backpack and did not find the Hello Kitty gun, he said.
The next day, the girls involved were 'interrogated' by school officials, Ficker said. By the time the girl was done speaking to administrators about the incident, she was crying, he said. A teacher called out the girl in front of her class and told her police may get involved, he said.
Ficker called the girl "the least terroristic person in Pennsylvania."
"What parent that you know would want their 5-year-old questioned about making terroristic threats without them in the room?" Ficker asked.
School district solicitor Edward Greco tells pennlive.com officials are looking into the case. He said Friday school officials aren't at liberty to discuss disciplinary actions.
Ficker said he has scheduled a meeting with a lawyer from the school board later this month to have the girl’s record expunged.
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What about her second amendment rights?
What about her second amendment rights?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: What about her second amendment rights?
Threatening to harm? With bubbles? Doesn't a charge of threatening to harm require that the instrumentality of choice actually be able to cause harm, if only in the perception of the "victim"?
"Hang on while I log in to the James Webb telescope to search the known universe for who the fuck asked you." -- James Fell
Re: What about her second amendment rights?
You've obviously never had a bubble popped in your eye Scoot. It can sting like buggery*! 
ETA: *I'd better mention that there was no pun intended there before Meade comes along and jumps up and down all over that one... metaphorically of course!
ETA: *I'd better mention that there was no pun intended there before Meade comes along and jumps up and down all over that one... metaphorically of course!
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
Re: What about her second amendment rights?
It caused the teachers to have Dain Bramage...
Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is
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Re: What about her second amendment rights?
zero tolerance = zero use of brains.
nuff said.
nuff said.