13-Year-Old Strip Searched Then Thrown in Jail for Burping in Class
In America, burping in class is a serious crime. Need proof? Just look at the story of this 13-year-old from Albuquerque, New Mexico's Cleveland Middle School.
According to George Washington University law professor,
Jonathan Turley, the boy was acting like a class clown, doing what many class clowns do: disrupting class. Because of his loud burps, his teacher, Margaret Mines-Hornbeck, reported the boy to Officer Arthur Acosta. The seventh grader was then taken to an administrative office after being searched for drugs, as the assistant principal accused the 13-year-old of participating in a marijuana transaction.
During the search, the boy was asked to remove his jeans and shoes, then flip the waistband of the shorts he had been wearing underneath. This was all in vain considering
no drugs were found.After the traumatizing experience, the boy was suspended for the remainder of the year, all because he burped too loud. But sure enough, that wasn't the end of it.Instead of letting this matter go after such a harsh punishment, Cleveland Middle School decided to charge him criminally using a provision that says "[n]o person shall willfully interfere with the educational process of any public or private school by committing, threatening to commit or inciting others to commit any act which would disrupt, impair, interfere with or obstruct the lawful mission, processes, procedures or functions of a public or private school."
Making matters even worse, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit decided to uphold the Albuquerque school officials' action by claiming police and school leadership were justified in sending the 13-year-old to juvenile jail.
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