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Is it really a police responsibility in this case?
The school seemed to know the attacker was in psychiatric care, was aware of the text messages, was aware of their previous vandalism, but still chose to keep the attacker in the same school as the victims.
Wouldn't it make more sense for the school board to have moved the attacker to a different school?
Yes it is. Those two girls were uttering threats and should have been charged.
I'm not saying they should have done jail time, but at least being charged gets them into the system where a judge can rule they need psychiatric assessment and treatment.
Cops washing their hands of the whole thing was stupid, and a failure to care for the whole community.
Ps. Why would you just want the girls transferred to another school where they could begin threatening a different student?
The accused was already undergoing treatment over the summer.
Even if she was charged, she'd presumably continue going to the same school until a court date.
That wouldn't have helped the victim.
The school and school board has the same responsibility and more tools available. The cops can, at best, lay charges and hope the courts handle the case in time. The school doesn't need to go through a legal process, administrators can transfer, reprimand, or expel the accused with less overhead.
I don't want that, but it's a minimally invasive tool to get the killer kid away from potential victims. There's no guarantee she would start threatening others in a new school. At the very least it would have kept the victim safer.
It sounds like the accused needed to be in a psychiatric institution, but those don't really exist any more.
Schools are not responsible for criminal behaviour, at which point the police are involved. It's that simple.
Your shift of blame on which institution should have been responsible is exactly the kind of waffling that led to the girl being hurt.
There are undoubtedly other kids getting bullied that need intervention from the school. Ignoring the school's failure here just enables that shit.
The cops fucked up too, there's no question of that. But the school failed its responsibilities too.