Children Can Be Evil

Three 9-year-old girls and an 8-year-old boy were handcuffed and arrested at Morrell Park Elementary School in Baltimore, Md., after allegedly being involved in a fight at the school that led to one of the children being “forced onto railroad tracks,” WJZ TV reports.

Despite outrage from parents and the American Civil Liberties Union — who claim the arrests violate state law — the Baltimore Police Department defend their decision to keep the children in a holding cell for 12 hours.

“It’s our policy, regardless of the age, when a suspect is arrested by police, they’re handcuffed,” Det. Jeremy Silbert told WJZ-TV. “And the reason is just not for the suspect’s safety but also for officers’ safety.”

Look, they ganged up on a kid and forced it onto railroad tracks.  Maybe the ‘outraged’ parents should be glad the victim wasn’t killed.  Children aren’t always Cherubs you know.  Some of them are evil.

Loretta Hammonds, mother of one of the students, told WBAL-TV that she was outraged when the school called to tell her about the arrest.  “I immediately ran to the Juvenile Justice Center, and they would not let me see her or even talk to her,” Hammonds told the station. “I just started crying. My baby’s in the back of a cell and she’s 9-years-old.”

Her ‘outrage’ pales in comparison to the outrage I’d feel if a motley gang took my child to the railroad tracks.   Perhaps she should aim her outrage at herself for not teaching her child to respect others and not bully them.  Apparently this is a pattern of behavior.

The Baltimore Sun reports the arrests were an effort on the part of the police to respond to area parents’ outrage after the bullying incident — where one child allegedly almost drowned and another’s head was “forced onto a railroad track.”  The four children have been charged with aggravated assault for the incident.

They’re victimizers, not victims.  They’re perpetrators, not innocents.  Not all children are innocents: some are evil.