| Nine-year-olds plotted to tie up, hurt teacher |
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2008/04/03 11:05 |
Nine-year-olds plotted to tie up, hurt teacher
Wed Apr 2, 9:48 AM ET
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Nine-year-olds at a school in the U.S. state of
Georgia brought a broken steak knife, handcuffs and electrical tape to
school in a plot to injure their teacher, authorities said on Tuesday.
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Teachers at Center Elementary School in Waycross, Georgia, uncovered
the plot on Friday when a pupil reported that a child in the third
grade had brought a weapon into the school.
"The plan was to handcuff the teacher, put tape over her mouth and hit
her over the head with the paperweight and possibly cut her," said Lt.
Duane Caswell of Waycross police, adding that some students said the
knife was simply there to cut the tape.
"It was a rather elaborate scheme for children of that age," he said.
The students spent a week planning the attack and planned to carry it
out on the day they were caught, Caswell said.
Nine pupils in the grade, most of whom were 9 years old, have been
disciplined and some were given long-term suspensions, said Theresa
Martin, spokeswoman for the Ware County school district in the
southeastern part of the state.
Caswell said police were also planning to charge three of the children
in the juvenile court system with conspiracy to commit aggravated
assault and possession of a weapon on a school property.
(Writing by Matthew Bigg; editing by Jane Sutton and David Storey)
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