Slingshot felony

Up in the morning and off to school ...

I remember in the sixth grade when I fashioned a slingshot from a busted balloon and shot Kenny Wells in the back with piece of plastic.  Sister Mary Margaret gave me such a whack with her ruler and everyone laughed when I yelped.  TAVARES FL -- After spending four nights in an Ocala juvenile jail, Kevin Cottle, an 11-year-old Lake County boy detained for his "deadly" makeshift slingshot returned home to his parents Tuesday night. The sixth-grader at Tavares Middle was arrested Friday when he was accused of using a toy balloon slingshot to hit another student in the chest. He faces second-degree felony charges of shooting or throwing a deadly missile. A Lake County judge ordered Kevin released from the juvenile detention center on Tuesday afternoon and placed him in home confinement in Tavares until his case is resolved. Kevin isn't allowed around the student he is accused of harming. The school has started expulsion proceedings.  I thought it was illegal to identify the identify minors charged with a crime, let alone something like this?  In good America local citizens will drum out of office any official who had any part in causing this silliness.  In feeble America, they won't.