12-year-old girl arrested after 'shooting' text
MYRTLE CREEK, Ore. -- A 12-year-old student at Coffenberry Middle School was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, after she allegedly generated a text about a shooting.
Police say that they were contacted by officials from the school at 1:15 p.m., after they were shown a text message that said, "there is going to be a shooting tomorrow."
Police say after an investigation, they discovered that the girl had sent the message to herself.
She was arrested and charged with first degree disorderly conduct, which is a Class A Misdemeanor.
The girl was cited and released to her mother.
All the students are in a flurry because what was a safe haven has become known as a possible place of great harm. The ones that are "enjoying" the mania of creating a chaotic event and dominating the administrations at their schools should be ashamed. It's just not a smart thing to do, just as most everyone has said.Â
Sorry, but this isn't national news. Kids do stuff like this all the time. It's just that the media tries to connect things that normally wouldn't get attention if they can somehow relate to a tragic event such as the recent shooting.
 @PDXguy23 NO, they do not "do that stuff all the time" any more than they threaten suicide all the time.  Both have to be taken seriously.  And if the media reports it, fine; we will all be more on guard and take care.  It is sad that this is happening but don't disregard it, plaase.Â
I have 12 and 13 year old daughters, who do stupi stuff all the time. We don't know the exact details on this story so to assume she needs to be arrested is just plain dumb. Maybe she just turned 12 last week so basically she's as mature as most 11 year olds. The thing you are missing is that research shows that at that age they are only beginning to develop the cognitive thinking skills that can make the jump from what they are doing being a joke or a that they are creating a dangerous situation. At 12 most if not all children don't plan out what they are doing and try to work through the possible outcomes. Yeah, this girl needed to be set down and told what she did was probably wrong and what it could have lead to, but to arrest her is really going to far.
 @Firestarter74 No, she needed to be arrested and she needs to be prosecuted for it. She needs to know that there are severe consequences for behavior like that. After all we have young kids attempting to car jack, a 13 year old murders his step mothers. It's ok though, they're at that magical age where they should get away with it apparently.
kids do not need phones at school or any other distraction. Its not daycare, they are there to learn the basics so that they are more capable of succeeding in life. That is unless you want them living in your house forever. The bad out weighs the positives of kids having phones at school.Â
 @baalzebubba ~  I agree..!  Would add that if there is some special reason why parents think their kid somehow won't survive in school without a phone, they should get him/her a phone that is JUST a phone...that is, no Internet, no texting, no games, etc.  Â
I think it's so sad that we have all these people wandering around now - seemingly all ages (although I rarely see elderly people doing this) - and they've either got cell phones glued to their ears or they're texting, and they're totally oblivious to anything else going on around them. Â I wouldn't care about that so much, except they do it while they're walking around on the streets, and sometimes, they just walk right out into the intersection into traffic...Â
What in the world did these people DO before cell phones..???
Well, it's kind of hard to tell from just this story what kind of parents she has, but I'd say their response to this incident would be a pretty fair indicator... eg: are they upset by what she did, or just because "their little angel got arrested"..? Â Even good parents can have kids who make mistakes...nobody's immune from human frailties...
But this 12-year-old definitely needs to understand that what she did was wrong - and stupid - and she needs to understand why. Â Â
Let's see if I understand this correctly.  A 12 year old sends a text message to herself say something about a school shooting, she's arrested. Somebody interprets the Mayan calendar that world will end today, and that's OK. A hoax that a few billion people will die is OK, and one that is pretty obvious a hoax and a little girl gets arrested. Boy what a world??   People have gone completely nuts. Â
 @Hiker123 ~ Well in pure theory, I would agree with you, but what she did might be somewhat similar to some joker going into a shopping mall, blowing air into a balloon or a paper bag, then popping it.  That's just not something that's very smart to do when people are already on edge because of very recent events...
It's said that this 12-year-old only sent the text message to herself... but if nobody sets her straight now, the next time she might send that same message out to a bunch of people... and the results could be really, really bad. Â Kids need to be taught to think ahead - anticipate the possible consequences of whatever it is that they want to do... and that what THEY think of as a joke, may very well NOT be taken that way by others...
I totally agree!!!Â
I guess anything goes these days, purely in the interests of free speech. No one apparently can be held accountable for their actions and words anymore. It's a free for all nowadays!
A good example of how our 1st amendment rights to freedom of speech is limited just like our 2nd amendment right to own guns should also be limited (not eliminated).
She'll live, and she'll be a bit wiser for the process. Â Swift way to nip this kind of crap in the butt!
It is about time that we let people know there is consequences to their actions. Â I see a whole lot of parents let their kids get away with a whole lot of stuff that just doesn't fly in the real world. Â It is such a disservice not only to everyone else but their kids as well, but the parents don't realize that!
They might start realizing it though, once their kids get arrested. Â Time to bust out the manners/common sense manuals, people!
Tough lesson for a 12 year old. Reality has a way of winning every time.
Unfortunately we are going to see more of this. Stupid kids doing stupid things to get out of school. Compareable to the 'pull the fire alarm' antics back in the day. Kids just aren't grasping the severity of the situation or the reality of it. Parents need to have honest and open conversations with their kids. Not to scare them into never wanting to leave the house but to teach them sympathy and reality. 12 is old enough to grasp the concept and reality of what she has done.
 @CRB " Kids just aren't grasping the severity of the situation or the reality of it."  Exactly! It's parents that are not teaching their children proper "boundaries", as in what you "can" say or do, and what you "can't " say or do. As a kid I knew I could cuss at my brothers and get away with it, but I knew dam n well that I couldn't do the same to my dad, my mom, or any other adult, or there would be severe consequences. Now, many kids have little or now boundaries. And it [is] that fault of the parents.
We need to start charging the parents. Â There needs to be ramifications for poor parenting.
 @Beti No way!  I am a very good parent and my kids do really stupid things, and they should be punished or held accountable or whatever it is because they would be upset if something happened to me, but they wouldn't understand the correlation between what they do wrong and consequences, and honestly I'm not sure that the other kids would give a rat's tail if their parents got in trouble.  Bad Idea Beti, sorry to say but I respectfully disagree with your logic.
 @Beti I think there's validity in your premise, but, respectfully, how do we know in this case she has bad parents? Good kids are simply stupid sometimes with good parents. If a parent is negligently enabling dangerous behavior then I think there's an argument to at times hold them accountable. In this case I just don't see enough information to say that's the situation.
 @Beti Oh come on, my parents were awesome and I did stupid things, I can't imagine what I would have done if we had cell phones, texting, and Facebook back then but I'm certain I would have done stupid things with those as well....
genius!!!
Is she starved for attention or what? What a sad little brat.
Scary during a time of heightened concern for safety. How does one send a text to themselves? That young lady will experience a lot of grief for a text.