Country Christian student’s threat taken seriously
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After evaluation, the 14-year-old boy was released to parents
By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer
A 14-year-old male student at Country Christian School was picked up by the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office and taken to the county’s juvenile department for questioning on Wednesday, after making a remark to a staff member that was construed as threatening.
CCSO Detective Jim Strovink said, “We had a young man who made a comment on a very low scale of possible threats and got a call to go down there.” According to Strovink, a school administrator contacted CCSO after a conversation with the student in which he made the comment, “I can’t kill my teachers in their sleep.”
A sheriff’s deputy arrived on scene and took the student to the Juvenile Department for evaluation. “The deputy who went down there did the right thing because we have a zero-tolerance policy on those type of remarks,” Strovink said. “He (the deputy) would have been remiss to have not done that, and the school did the right thing in reporting it.”
Mark McDonnell, intake and assessment center supervisor at the Clackamas County Juvenile Department, said the student was brought in for evaluation at 10:30 a.m. and released at 3:40 p.m. He was not charged with a crime.
When a juvenile is brought in for evaluation, McDonnell said, there are four possible outcomes, ranging from sending the student home with a safety contract to placing him or her in a psychiatric hospital.
“This youth was at the lowest level,” McDonnell said.
Country Christian officials declined to comment on the
incident.
By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer
A 14-year-old male student at Country Christian School was picked up by the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office and taken to the county’s juvenile department for questioning on Wednesday, after making a remark to a staff member that was construed as threatening.
CCSO Detective Jim Strovink said, “We had a young man who made a comment on a very low scale of possible threats and got a call to go down there.” According to Strovink, a school administrator contacted CCSO after a conversation with the student in which he made the comment, “I can’t kill my teachers in their sleep.”
A sheriff’s deputy arrived on scene and took the student to the Juvenile Department for evaluation. “The deputy who went down there did the right thing because we have a zero-tolerance policy on those type of remarks,” Strovink said. “He (the deputy) would have been remiss to have not done that, and the school did the right thing in reporting it.”
Mark McDonnell, intake and assessment center supervisor at the Clackamas County Juvenile Department, said the student was brought in for evaluation at 10:30 a.m. and released at 3:40 p.m. He was not charged with a crime.
When a juvenile is brought in for evaluation, McDonnell said, there are four possible outcomes, ranging from sending the student home with a safety contract to placing him or her in a psychiatric hospital.
“This youth was at the lowest level,” McDonnell said.
Country Christian officials declined to comment on the
incident.
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