Yamhill countie’s Prosecution, in McMinneville Orgeon ought to be ashamed of themselves — arresting and detaining a frightened 12 year old boy for acting out a stupid TV show, “Jackass” and prosecuting him for crimes that may leave him a felon and registered sex offender as well as putting him behind bars.

Apparently, along with other classmates, they were acting out a game they saw on TV where “Jackass”-es swat girls on the behinds and then they have to swat another person on the behind. The teacher grabbed the child and the child was sent to jail for days without being able to speak to his parents, scared and confused.

From KOMO-TV Seattle:

A judge reunited the seventh-grader with his McMinnville family after six days in custody, where he spent time rooming with a 17-year-old the family’s attorney described in court as a juvenile delinquent.

“I was so scared, I was throwing up the first and second night,” the boy said.

His mom, Tracie Mashburn, said she would have disciplined her son herself had school officials told her about the problem.

“You shouldn’t be doing that, but they should have let us know,” she said. “Had we known … we would have gone to the parents and had him apologize to them. Nobody even gave us a chance to do that.”

Since then, some of the girls have said they felt pressured to tell authorities and school officials what they wanted to hear - that the boys were doing something much worse.

Okay, so we’re talking about Prosecutors going after innocent children, because they’re easier to catch, scare and violate, while in the same exact state, a man who is flashing children, exposing his penis to them, is protected.

If you are as outraged as I am, that we are now going after little boys, instead of properly educating them for a behavior issue that should not have to ruin this child’s life, write the principal of his school today:

Patton Middle School

Jim Torgerson, Principal

JTorgerson@msd.k12.or.us

Phone: 503-565-4502

Or the McMinneville Police Chief, Ron Noble:

ron.noble@ci.mcminnville.or.us

I hope this blows up in Yahmhill Countie’s and Patton Middle School’s face and I hope a civil suit is filed against them.

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