Police Investigate Pennsylvania Boy Over 'Death Note'

[Izanamı.]

Police are investigating a fifth-grade boy who allegedly posted a "death note" in his elementary school near Pittsburgh this past week. Burrell School District superintendent Shannon Wagner said that the note with the names of five or six other boys was found on a wall in Stewart Elementary School in Lower Burrell. Wagner added, "After conducting the investigation, we found it is based on the anime, Death Note."

The school and the Lower Burrell Police Department notified the families of the students listed in the note, and the school also sent a letter to parents on Friday. The school has suspended the boy, and the police and prosecutors will discuss whether to press charges by Monday.

In the Death Note suspense manga, live-action films, and anime adaptation, a teenager finds a notebook with which he can put people to death by writing their names and the dictated manners of death.

There have been at least seven previous incidents in the United States where school officials linked "Death Notes" to students being disciplined. A high school senior in Richmond, Virginia was suspended in 2007 over a list of his classmates that the school principal linked to Death Note. A middle school student in Hartsville, South Carolina was "removed" from school over a "Death Note" notebook in March of 2008. In Gadsden, Alabama, two sixth-grade students were arrested in the following month for a notebook that allegedly listed their school staff and fellow students in a manner similar to the Death Note anime.

A middle school in Gig Harbor, Washington expelled one student and disciplined three others in May of 2008 for writing 50 names in their own "Death Note" book. Two elementary school students from Oklahoma City were to be disciplined in December 2009 for allegedly listing two other students and the manners of their fictional deaths in a "Death Note" notebook. An eighth-grade student was suspended indefinitely from a middle school in Owosso, Michigan after a "Death Note" notebook was found in March 2010. A 14-year-old eighth-grade student from Pennsylvania's Avonworth Middle School was suspended after a "Death Note" list was found on a school bus in May 2010.

On the other hand, a Washington state librarians' group nominated the manga for a young adults' book award in 2007. The manga's Taiwanese publisher and a non-profit Taiwanese watchdog group supported the work in 2007 for raising issues. A mother in New Mexico called for a ban on the manga in Albuquerque Public Schools in 2010, but a committee voted unanimously against the ban.

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[HeavenlySolace]

wtf???

 

[Luciform]

interesting. thanks for sharing

 

[Kaneki Kun]

I need to start writing more names before it's too late.

 

[Ridoku X]

Interesting.

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[Punk Hazard]

Suspension and pressing charges seem a bit much. Simply talking to them with their parents should suffice.

 

[Conspirator.]

This is quite random.

 

[YowYan]

'Muricans keep taking going full retard to the next level.

 

[Vega]

So instead of actually you know, trying to find out why he wrote their names (i.e. possible bullying), they are instead just going to charge him? Gotcha.

 

[-PK-]

Meh, wanna be Kiras who are using the DN for selfish purposes, but as expected fail.

On a serious note - Suspension and charges is too much. I guess talking to their parents will be enough, and there would be a reason why those kids would even write names in those DNs. That should be looked into too. Could be coz of bullying or the kid just being a psycho and maybe plotting to actually kill the people whose names they wrote later on or could be just a joke too. :|

 

[Zexion~]

Lml sayings its based on death note is a real easy way to avoid getting in trouble for writing down names of people you were actually going to kill

 

[GhostProject]

Let the punishment come after the crime. It's probably just macabre play for this child.

 

[~WastelandSociety~]

'Muricans keep taking going full retard to the next level.

How?

You would let this behavior go,without realizing that it could be serious?
What if one of those kids actually plan on attacking the other kids.
Even if it was apart of a game or not I find the schools approach on the matter to be right.

You go to school to learn not to make empty threats on who you want and how they should die.
Cause if you let this go,then that could encourage another to actually plan out an attack.

I've known a guy from my school that played the death note game,writing people names that he doesn't like,the school questioned him and he answered them by saying it's just a game base on a manga. They warned him,and let him be.

Few weeks later he was threating a kid with a box cutter,and pulled it out to show him. Lucky the teacher walked by and places him on the ground while waiting for police to show up.

That kids name was on his list.

So I don't agree with what you say.

 

[Forest]

I wonder what were the scenarios of the deaths that he wrote. IF they were over-the-board fantastical than I would just let him go, he was probably just pissed off from being bullied. But if they were things that he would be able to do himself, they would need to look at him to see if he had any serious issues.

Meh, wanna be Kiras who are using the DN for selfish purposes, but as expected fail.

On a serious note - Suspension and charges is too much. I guess talking to their parents will be enough, and there would be a reason why those kids would even write names in those DNs. That should be looked into too. Could be coz of bullying or the kid just being a psycho and maybe plotting to actually kill the people whose names they wrote later on or could be just a joke too. :|

speak of the devil himself, you need to bring back the DN games while you are at it. lol

 

[YowYan]

How?

You would let this behavior go,without realizing that it could be serious?
What if one of those kids actually plan on attacking the other kids.
Even if it was apart of a game or not I find the schools approach on the matter to be right.

You go to school to learn not to make empty threats on who you want and how they should die.
Cause if you let this go,then that could encourage another to actually plan out an attack.

I've known a guy from my school that played the death note game,writing people names that he doesn't like,the school questioned him and he answered them by saying it's just a game base on a manga. They warned him,and let him be.

Few weeks later he was threating a kid with a box cutter,and pulled it out to show him. Lucky the teacher walked by and places him on the ground while waiting for police to show up.

That kids name was on his list.

So I don't agree with what you say.

That might be the case in this specific scenario but there is a reason for my previous statement. Which is the fact that paranoia is rising in the u.s. fuelled by the police state and federal laws. It's going in that direction of careful of what you say as you might end up in jail for it.

This is just one situation, but there are so many cases in which a parent cannot even pick up their child from school without permission from the school staff, children cannot bring their own lunch to school, and retarded cops violate citizens and get a paid vacation instead of jail time. example: [video=youtube;hObRFExW_Xc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hObRFExW_Xc[/video]

I have no problem with questioning that kid who wrote the names in the death note and to keep an eye on him but having a police investigation on the kid for writing pal's name in a anime book is just being paranoid. Rather ask the kid why those specific boys' names, what did they do to him. Communicate. The kid doesn't have to be a threat if you approach him properly and show concern for his feelings instead of treating him like a threat.

 

[Ldude]

Pressing charges instead of finding out what the actual problem is? Doesn't seem like a good way of dealing with the situation.