11-Year-Old on Probation After Threat

An 11-year-old Licking County student has been put on probation for typing a threatening, racist message on his elementary school’s computer that appeared on all students’ screens. The sixth-grader from Newton Elementary School near Newark entered the Juvenile Court equivalent of a guilty plea this week to a delinquency count of inducing panic. The Columbus Dispatch reports the threat was discovered on September 21st in the form of a computer icon that appeared on all students’ desktop screens. According to a detective’s statement, the icon read: “the school will die I bring a boom and kill blacks.” The boy admitted that he wrote it, saying he never intended to cause harm. He will be on probation indefinitely.