12 Year-old felon in the making
Sugar Land seventh grader charged with felony for writing on desk
A twelve year-old writes some nasty stuff on a desk at school. A normal response might be to have him clean the desk. Maybe give him a day of detention if the stuff was really profane. Not in Sugar Land.
James Tyler Frazier is a 12-year-old seventh grader. Back in February, he wrote bad words on his desk at Garcia Middle School in Ft. Bend County. The school’s police made a report and turned it over to the district attorney’s office. To everyone’s surprise, that’s when a third degree felony was filed against the youngster for gang graffiti.
Desk graffiti is a 3rd degree felony? What sort of school requests prosecution of a twelve year old for desk graffiti? I guess the sort that has their own private police force and needs constant validation for having it.
The graffiti was removed from the desk with cleaning solution. It’s a shame that the school wants it to permanently stain James Frazier.
(Tip credit to Bettina)
I live in Houston, about 1 mile from the Ft Bend county line. Sugarland is one of the fastest growing areas in the U.S. This is carrying things much too far. Although his juvie record will be expunged when he turns 18, he has a rough life ahead for the next 6 years. Alternative school in with the truly bad types, no extra curricular activities, no school bus (pity the parents), and his friends left behind. That’s not to say what the courts will do, too.
How can we instill respect for authority when authority acts like this?
What parent in their right mind is going to let their kid be treated like a common criminal for something like this for the next six years?
I can’t believe a judge won’t dismiss this case and tell the district attorney to find something better to do with his time.
Huh. And we, poor benighted college students, instead of thinking that a graffiti’d desk was gang-related, had the temerity to instead use it in an improv sketch! (The game involved one character picking random sayings from a book and the others working to have him make sense. The desk in question was so covered that it might have as well been a book.)
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The state of Texas has nothing better to do than to pick on children. They can charge a child as an adult at the age of seventeen, but can they get a diver license without an adult consent? No, to that answer. What is wrong with Texas? The laws are tough, but why are our crime rate the highset in the U.S.? My daughter and I got in a fight and they charge her with a second degree felony. Why did I called the police for this bull? If you love your children, just remember to never make the mistake that I did, because she is a senior in high school and can not go to school with this pending against my baby.
I am a student attending George Rogers Clark High School.
I was a Freshman when this incident occoured. I never met Wiliam Poole and i hope i never do, the kid was a nut and thankfully he was expelled. I remember everyone making jokes about him and his ridicolus story, which to my knoweldge contained obivious clues linking his fictional story to real people.