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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you serious?  You are asking whether a reasonable adult would, as a first or second step, contact the police and press charges against a 7th grader who may have stolen an iTouch?  [b]No.  Seventh grade - 12 or 13 years old - is young.  Let this be a teaching moment for the kids. [/b]

Get a grip.[/quote]

If he gets away with this it will not be a teaching moment.  I know someone whose son stole from his grandparents, uncle, grandmother and they did nothing.  He kept doing things and had 23 misdemeanors and the judge always slapped his wrist and put him on probation.  One of these was when he tore a door off its hinges and threw it at his mother.  In early Nov., he beat his mother in the head with a cell phone, she was in hospital, 23 stitches.  He told police he wanted to kill someone but didn't have the nerve to kill himself so he was trying to kill his mother.  The Commonwealth attorney has decided to give this to a grand jury and try him as an adult.  If convicted, he could get 10-20 yrs. in state pen.  He wll be 17 in Dec.  Maybe if someone had done something other than say, "this is a teachable moment," he wouldn't be in jail and the probability of spending the next ten yrs. in a state pen.

Yes, report it.  The kid needs help.[/quote]

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