2 girls threaten to kill classmates in YouTube video
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A pair of seventh-grade girls in New Jersey have been pulled from school after allegedly posting a video on YouTube in which they threatened to kill several classmates, authorities said.
The girls at PS 27 in Paterson posted the roughly 20-minute video naming 10 to 12 classmates they wanted to kill and stab, school officials said.
In the video, which has since been taken down from YouTube, one of the girls brags about being a good assassin and explains why she wishes harm on her classmates.
"I have special killing thingies for different people," she says.
"I think about killing her," she adds. "I don't know why she's annoying."
The mother of one of the named students said the incident started Tuesday afternoon during a classroom journal writing exercise. One of the girls wrote and read aloud the names of students she wanted to kill, though not within earshot of the teacher.
"My daughter said to her, 'You want to kill me?'" said the mother, who did not want her name used. "She said, 'Yes I want to kill you.'"
The mother said her daughter called her from a school bathroom, terrified and in tears.
The school's principal told the mother that the girl who made the threats would be pulled from school and not allowed to return until she was evaluated by a doctor. But the girl was back in school the next day, in a different classroom, because she'd gotten medical clearance.
That afternoon, another student in the class found the threatening video on YouTube. Along with the girl who named classmates, another student participated off-camera.
"She got into detail, that she's going to stab, kill, choke," said the mother. "You can't finish the video, you're so shocked this girl's actually talking this way."
A spokesperson for Paterson schools said the two students have been "removed from the school environment," though it wasn't clear whether they were officially suspended.
"We have been communicating with the parents who had children in the same class as these two students," said Terry Corallo. "We have assured these parents that we have taken this issue very seriously and are taking the necessary steps to address this issue.
"Additionally, the video has been pulled from YouTube. This is now a police investigation and they will have our full cooperation."
The mother of the threatened girl, along with other parents, told NBC 4 New York administrators only removed the girls from class after they reached out to police and to the prosecutor's office.
They said they've learned the two girls have been charged and will be in court Monday, though neither school officials nor Paterson Police have confirmed that.
No one answered the door at the homes of the two girls Thursday evening
Sad. A part of me feels this was just a sad bid for attention. No one actually considering doing something like that would make a youtube video about it. For all the hubbub this is probably going to get, no one seems to be asking what would bring those very young girls to that level of anger and rage. These girls just wanted someone to listen to them and acting out like this may have been the only way.
The fact the school barely wanted to handle this speaks volumes about how schools do not take violence and harassment among students seriously. Only when a tragedy strikes they start to give a damn.
And these girls went into detail about killing other students how do we know if this was only for attention?.
These girls should have been expelled.
I find it most disturbing that the they let this girl back in school the day after making a death threat towards another student? I'm pretty sure that is reason for a lengthy suspension at least...
I find it most disturbing that the they let this girl back in school the day after making a death threat towards another student? I'm pretty sure that is reason for a lengthy suspension at least...
