The boys spent five nights in juvenile jail, were strip searched four times and were not allowed to communicate with their parents for the first twenty-four hours.

All for doing the same thing the girls were doing. There’s a good chance the D.A. who concocted the charges will loose her job.

Meanwhile, the infamous “power-washer mom” was free for eleven days, to let her daughters welts to heal, was then arrested, spent one night in jail, and probably wasn’t strip searched once.

It’s too bad Petulant Pixie isn’t as concerned about the fact that American women kill more of their own children than any mothers in the industrialized world.

I guess she’d rather ruminate about a couple adolescent boys slapping girls on the butt.

However, given that the assistant prosecutor who brought these charges to court was a female, I think a very fair question to ask is: Would she truly have brought similar charges against a girl or girls for doing exactly the same thing? (Oh, I know, I’m being hypothetical here, but I believe the “divide” is very real) NO, I really don’t believe any girl would have been charged in such an incident. It’s mostly because it wasn’t the girls involved who called the police, made the original complaint, but rather the school’s principal. Now, that brings up a good question: What exactly was that administrator doing, allowing such an activity involving BOTH boys and girls to go on in his school in the first place? Can we say “brain fade”, or perhaps more honestly, “incompetence”? I think both fit.

Truthfully, it’s stuff like this that makes me wonder if the good, old-fashioned hard maple paddle doesn’t really have a place, hanging from a hook in the principal’s office. It seems to me that the “Board of education, applied to the seat of learning” would have been FAR more appropriate than to turn those two boys over to an obviously overzealous, perhaps feminist, prosecuting attorney eager to make a name for herself, for her career advancement (I suspect however, that the results for her aren’t at all what she would have preferred). I mean, come on! Did what those boys stood accused of REALLY constitute felonies.

What are we coming to in this country? A return to the scenes of Dickensonian England, where Charles Dickens once observed a 10-year old boy being hanged for the horrific crime of stealing a loaf of bread?