Mom Arrested After Child Stabs School Officer With Pen - NewsCh...

A school resource officer had to go to the hospital Tuesday after an 8-year-old student attacked him with a pen.

[fishfry]

If the Mom was scuffling with the officer it could be that the child was just trying to defend his mother. This home needs to be looked into. Did Fowler over react to the animal abuse? You know how it is these days - Be a hero, save a whale, save a baby go to jail! The dog incident is bad but the child is only 8 years old...I hope Channel 5 folows up on this.

[Guest]

Hes 8 years old. He kicked a dog.Why in the world was he put in handcuffs ??? Ther are felons and drugdealers that do not get put in cuffs. No wonder the world has gone crazy Look at all the dum people we got. I probally kicked a dog too when i was a kid If i was his mom i would have called the law on the guy after my son trying to put him in cuffs for kicking a dog Seems like the dog had more rights than the little 8 yr old boy

[Concerned]

This child needs psychiatric help, and undoubtedly it wouldn't hurt the mother either. An 8 year old should know better than to abuse an animal or an authority figure. There is no reason to suspect the officer "overreacted" - and an 8 year old who thinks he has the power to resist an officer (even when his mother does) is headed in the wrong direction.

Please don't make excuses for these serious problems.

[murfreesboro]

lame.

[murfreesboro]

maybe the dog tried to attack the boy and he was trying to get away. anyone think of that?? what kind of dog was it? that makes a difference. was it a little dog or a big scary dog? hello, we need details.

[OU812a]

murfreesboro wrote:

maybe the dog tried to attack the boy and he was trying to get away. anyone think of that?? what kind of dog was it? that makes a difference. was it a little dog or a big scary dog? hello, we need details.

So, if the dog bit the kid, which it didn't, that gives the kid the right to ignore police commands, gives the right to the mother to assault the officer, and gives the right to the kid to stab a police officer? NO. Only criminals would think this way.
This isn't Mayberry, and you're not dealing with Opie and Barney. That kid could have just as easily got a knife or a gun. These people are trash, and it comes in all ages, gender, races, and sizes.

[BJP Nashville]

What can you do with an 8 year old that has violent tendencies. These children are troubled because of the parents, they tend to do as they see the parents do, and when you try and put them in a structured enviornment, they really show their true side. 8, 10 12, whatever young age, we are in trouble with today's society of youngs.The State is to blame for allowing so many on assistance without trying to become employable, these are the parents that continue to populate our country.

[BJP Nashville]

We often times want to blame authority when in fact we need to look at society as a whole. Parents just don't raise children anymore, they're left to raise themselves while the mother continues to have more children. If the state would give our children back to discipline them the way we were disciplined, it would make a better society. Don't blame the police or the dog, it's children today, we all know that the dog wasn't a pit bull, rottweller, doberman of the sort, if it had been, the child would have been in danger, it was his bad behavior, I know the schools are tired of bad kids, I'm tired of hearing about them and their mother. Lock them both up, and throw away the key.

[another mother]

This mother was way off base - even if the officer is wrongfully arresting your child. Isn't that what lawyers are for? and courts? We have a system in place for this that doesn't involve assaulting a guy who was just doing his job. PS two wrongs don't make a right.
If this lady had raised her child right this might not have happened. The kid knew he was wrong, thats why he tried to run away.
stop making excuses for everyone. You're just enabling society to keep going in the direction its going. You're making it so nothing is ever anyone's fault. Learning begins when you're young. If this boy isn't at fault for making a decision to kick a dog then who is at fault? some of you make it sound like it's the dog's fault or the officer's fault. give me a break. I hope my kids don't end up friends with your kids!

[Josh]

Go O/Fowler...They need to check in on other animal cruelty in the area, I bet he has been terrorizing the neighborhood since birth.

[angie]

another mother wrote:

This mother was way off base - even if the officer is wrongfully arresting your child. Isn't that what lawyers are for? and courts? We have a system in place for this that doesn't involve assaulting a guy who was just doing his job. PS two wrongs don't make a right.
If this lady had raised her child right this might not have happened. The kid knew he was wrong, thats why he tried to run away.
stop making excuses for everyone. You're just enabling society to keep going in the direction its going. You're making it so nothing is ever anyone's fault. Learning begins when you're young. If this boy isn't at fault for making a decision to kick a dog then who is at fault? some of you make it sound like it's the dog's fault or the officer's fault. give me a break. I hope my kids don't end up friends with your kids!

AMEN i agree with you there is alot of people out here always making up excuses!!!

[Nik]

This child obviously needs some help as does the mother, isn't abuse of animals one of the first signs? The officer was doing his job! regardless of the childs age if he is doing something wrong then handcuffs should be used, if he were 18 or 28 years old and kicking a dog everyone would expect him handcuffed and arrested!

[kkm]

fishfry wrote:

If the Mom was scuffling with the officer it could be that the child was just trying to defend his mother. This home needs to be looked into. Did Fowler over react to the animal abuse? You know how it is these days - Be a hero, save a whale, save a baby go to jail! The dog incident is bad but the child is only 8 years old...I hope Channel 5 folows up on this.

Maybe if more of this was done we would not have so many kids murdering other kids.It starts out with animals then it go to beating people up or killing them.Serial killers usually start out with animals when they are young.Maybe if they catch them young and get them help they will save a life in the future.You have to teach them young or it will be too late.

[Reader]

Nik wrote:

This child obviously needs some help as does the mother, isn't abuse of animals one of the first signs? The officer was doing his job! regardless of the childs age if he is doing something wrong then handcuffs should be used, if he were 18 or 28 years old and kicking a dog everyone would expect him handcuffed and arrested!

I totally agree with you. This child, and probably the mother need help. Abuse of an animal is the first sign. The mother does need to be held accountable for the child's action. I think she is the contribing factor that this child is like this. Sad!

[You dont know me]

Guest wrote:

Hes 8 years old. He kicked a dog.Why in the world was he put in handcuffs ??? Ther are felons and drugdealers that do not get put in cuffs. No wonder the world has gone crazy Look at all the dum people we got. I probally kicked a dog too when i was a kid If i was his mom i would have called the law on the guy after my son trying to put him in cuffs for kicking a dog Seems like the dog had more rights than the little 8 yr old boy

You're an idiot. He isn't the only officer out there busting his butt. There are other officers working on drug dealers and felons. Stabbing an officer is a FELONY!! Lock the kid up. It's trash breeding trash. It would never have occurred to me EVER to stab anyone. What the hell is wrong with parents?? BE PARENTS!!!

[Jason B Bour]

Guest wrote:

Hes 8 years old. He kicked a dog.Why in the world was he put in handcuffs ??? Ther are felons and drugdealers that do not get put in cuffs. No wonder the world has gone crazy Look at all the dum people we got. I probally kicked a dog too when i was a kid If i was his mom i would have called the law on the guy after my son trying to put him in cuffs for kicking a dog Seems like the dog had more rights than the little 8 yr old boy

If you are going to call people dumb, at least spell it right. LOL

Let's see the boy was violent towards a dog, and also stabbed a police officer. It sounds like this boy has violent tendencies, and might have fought the officer when the officer approached him.

Now as far as felons and drug dealers not being cuffed, TN POST regulations states everyone must be cuffed or restrained when arrested.

[jess]

This is a SAD thing. I agree with most of u guys the mom needs to held also. Im not the best parent in the world but my children know you obey officers "request" and NEVER EVER RUN FROM THE POLICE and if they treat an animals that way they need to be spanked! Thank you officer Fowler GREAT job!!!!!

[pollyanne]

Wow!!! The officer himself did not see anything, but because of hearsay from others, he chased the boy for a while and handcuffed him? Mind you, what followed the arrest is unexcusable, but at the same time, what happened after is not acceptable either. So, there is no "benefit of the doubt" anymore. If my child had done something like that, I would have expected the officer to ring my doorbell and discuss the issue, or I would have been expected to receive a phone call from the school the next morning to meet with authority and the principal because at that point, they would have had ALL sides of the story.

[pollyanne]

jess wrote:

... and if they treat an animals that way they need to be spanked!

So, in order to show a 8 years old child, KICKING an animal is not acceptable, you HIT him?

[kkm]

Here we go again with the spanking being abuse.I don't think a little swat on the but will hurt a child.Look at how bad children have gotten since these so called experts have been saying that any spanking is abuse.Kids are killing each other and they are still saying that if you spank a child they will be abusive.That is the crock.I just don't know how parents in the past got through raising their children without these experts.