Boy, 15, kills himself after facing being put on sex offender registry, for streaking

[yhelothar]

Also, according to his friend, the kid was depressed and suicidal before the incident.

No he had serious problems. He had some real demons. He had already been to i guess a physciatric rehab for suicidal teens? I don't know the correct terminology but he was there previously for an evaluation. What was sad was on the monday before he committed suicide, his dad took him the hospital and tried to get their help. They had the son sign a no harm waiver and sent him on his way. On the following wednesday he was back, living off machines.

 

[Doppel]

Bolded is the important part of this whole story that the idiot "get a lawyer" crowd is missing. Nothing had happened to the kid except threats and possibilities of future problems. The law is dumb, so what, then fight the law. Pick a lawyer and fight the charges. Take it to the national press. Dig up dirt on the principal and school board. Try to get the law overturned. There were a thousand things the kid and his family COULD have done rather than suicide. If a teenage asshole's reaction to getting into trouble is to kill himself BEFORE facing ANY consequences and to surrender not only the case, but his entire life without a fight, good riddance.

You continue to be hopelessly naive and ignorant of how the rest of the world lives. I presume it is a social thing you probably will always struggle with.

Most teenagers are already fucked up to a degree. Most have a tenuous self esteem. Taking any regular teen and throwing potential expulsion and sex offender registration at them is going to wreak hell on them. It isn't surprising a 15 year old child struggled with this. Principal needs to be vilified out of work over it.

 

[Doppel]

Also, according to his friend, the kid was depressed and suicidal before the incident.

No he had serious problems. He had some real demons. He had already been to i guess a physciatric rehab for suicidal teens? I don't know the correct terminology but he was there previously for an evaluation. What was sad was on the monday before he committed suicide, his dad took him the hospital and tried to get their help. They had the son sign a no harm waiver and sent him on his way. On the following wednesday he was back, living off machines.

Thanks for the info.

I am leaving what I just wrote because I stand by it based on what we knew earlier.

 

[MagickMan]

You seriously THINK that he was a "SEX OFFENDER", that the streaking was "sexually" motivated justifying to put him on a list as "sex offender", together with rapists and pedophiles?

You don't see a difference in INTENTION there, between a stupid teen streaking in his underwear at a game and, say, a rapist?

Ok....

Don't even argue with that idiot, he isn't worth it.

 

[Andy22]

You continue to be hopelessly naive and ignorant of how the rest of the world lives. I presume it is a social thing you probably will always struggle with.

Most teenagers are already fucked up to a degree. Most have a tenuous self esteem. Taking any regular teen and throwing potential expulsion and sex offender registration at them is going to wreak hell on them. It isn't surprising a 15 year old child struggled with this. Principal needs to be vilified out of work over it.

If his attachment to life was so tenuous then don't fucking run down a football field with your dick in a sock and expect there not be backlash! This appears to be much more about his home life than being on a list as the story from his friend alluded to. His parents want to shift blame is what it seem like to me.

 

[zinfamous]

School officials followed Alabama law. I hope the family takes a good hard look in the mirror over raising a dumbass and for not doing more to help him through it. Kid had NOT been expelled, kid had NOT been categorized as a sex offender, kid offed himself anyway. 100% of the blame lies with the kid and kids family.

huh?

 

[zinfamous]

Also, according to his friend, the kid was depressed and suicidal before the incident.

No he had serious problems. He had some real demons. He had already been to i guess a physciatric rehab for suicidal teens? I don't know the correct terminology but he was there previously for an evaluation. What was sad was on the monday before he committed suicide, his dad took him the hospital and tried to get their help. They had the son sign a no harm waiver and sent him on his way. On the following wednesday he was back, living off machines.

thanks for posting--this changes everything, really.

 

[Oldgamer]

IMO that would be the prime candidate for suicide, given the situation. Probably a good kid at school, popular, played sports, all of a sudden becoming a pariah with no future job or college prospects due to his new fangled sex offender status.

yeah, that'd be tough.

I agree that would cause ANY normal person to become immediately depressed to the point of killing themselves. Shoot you have wealthy elite Wallstreet bankers who did just that when they lost their fortunes back in the 1920's, throwing themselves out of high rise building windows.

Some people can be scared so badly they think their life is over and not worth living. It sounds like the Principle and administration officials went "Waaaay Over the Top" with this kid in scaring him and telling him he is now going to be a "sex offender" and put on the list.

 

[SunnyD]

Bolded is the important part of this whole story that the idiot "get a lawyer" crowd is missing. Nothing had happened to the kid except threats and possibilities of future problems. The law is dumb, so what, then fight the law. Pick a lawyer and fight the charges. Take it to the national press. Dig up dirt on the principal and school board. Try to get the law overturned. There were a thousand things the kid and his family COULD have done rather than suicide. If a teenage asshole's reaction to getting into trouble is to kill himself BEFORE facing ANY consequences and to surrender not only the case, but his entire life without a fight, good riddance.

Here's the problem with that little rant of yours...

In Alabama, indecent exposure is linked to the state’s sex offender laws, meaning that he could have found himself on the sex offenders register due to the streaking.

And

Campbell added that that the incident was not just a prank and needed to be treated seriously.

Sparkman High administrators even recommended that Adamek face a hearing in the Madison County court system to determine if formal charges would be filed, WHNT reported.

The school wasn't going to let it go, and Alabama is just prude enough to make sure this boy, who did something that a lot of stupid high school kids have done over the years, would have had a death sentence before he even graduated.

Trust me, the school administrators in this county are fucking retards. Sure, the best school system in the state, but that ain't sayin' much. I'd move in a heartbeat to get my kids in better, more sane school surrounded by a community with common sense rather than "southern family values".

 

[GTaudiophile]

Why has the Sex Offender List not been challenged against the 8th Amendment. With the exception of the child murders and rapists/abusers, the life-long punishment does not fit the crime IMO.

 

[Oldgamer]

Apparently, there's a lot of versions of the story going around. According to someone on reddit who claims he knows the kid personally, the kid wasn't even being charged to be put on the sex offender list. He also was not wearing tightie whities, but rather a sock on the cock.

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1o6p7t/boy_15_kills_himself_after_facing_expulsion_and/

.

Soooo you believe any anonymous poster on Reddit? Anyone can post shit on Reddit without proof just to troll. LOL

 

[Oldgamer]

thanks for posting--this changes everything, really.

Ok wait, it changes everything because some anonymous poster (who could be a poser or troll making shit up) says they know this kid?? I don't believe half the posters that post on that site.

 

[EagleKeeper]

The kid panicked and the school was following the rules of the state.

We do not know if the kid has other issues.
You know the family will not admit that he had other issues.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

I already knew what you had to before reading your response....but then again you can pretend to be a tough guy all you want on the internet!!

And you can pretend to have a brain, but you're not fooling anyone.

If you think a single word I said is wrong, dispute it.

Kid had not been expelled. FACT
Kid had not been registered as a sex offender. FACT
Kid had not been convicted of a single thing. FACT
Kid had not been officially charged with anything. FACT

Yet kid whacked himself anyway. How would YOU describe a person that commits suicide in those circumstances? I'd describe them as dangerously unhinged and disconnected from reality.

 

[KaOTiK]

I may have missed it but where does it say that he was wearing his underwear?

In the article it says

Christian Adamek, from Huntsville, Alabama, hanged himself on October 2, a week after he was arrested for running naked across the Sparkman High football field during a game.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Here's the problem with that little rant of yours...


The school wasn't going to let it go, and Alabama is just prude enough to make sure this boy, who did something that a lot of stupid high school kids have done over the years, would have had a death sentence before he even graduated.

Trust me, the school administrators in this county are fucking retards. Sure, the best school system in the state, but that ain't sayin' much. I'd move in a heartbeat to get my kids in better, more sane school surrounded by a community with common sense rather than "southern family values".

1) I don't trust you, not even a little. Anyone that relies on "trust me" in a debate is doing so because they can't say anything intelligent on the subject.

2) If people in that county are such fucking retards, that encompasses you too.

3) The school had ALREADY let it go. The school wanted no part of it and wanted it turned over to the state courts so the kid got due process.

4) IF (and that's a big IF) the kid actually was charged and IF the kid was then tried and IF the kid was then convicted and IF the kid was then forced to register as a sex offender the kid STILL had legal recourse through higher courts.


The kid and his family expended not a single effort to defend the kid from charges that he wasn't even facing and might not ever face, yet he killed himself. So I'll ask you the same question I asked the other numbskull, How would YOU describe a person that commits suicide in those circumstances?

 

[SunnyD]

1) I don't trust you, not even a little. Anyone that relies on "trust me" in a debate is doing so because they can't say anything intelligent on the subject.

2) If people in that county are such fucking retards, that encompasses you too.

3) The school had ALREADY let it go. The school wanted no part of it and wanted it turned over to the state courts so the kid got due process.

4) IF (and that's a big IF) the kid actually was charged and IF the kid was then tried and IF the kid was then convicted and IF the kid was then forced to register as a sex offender the kid STILL had legal recourse through higher courts.


The kid and his family expended not a single effort to defend the kid from charges that he wasn't even facing and might not ever face, yet he killed himself. So I'll ask you the same question I asked the other numbskull, How would YOU describe a person that commits suicide in those circumstances?

The school didn't let it go. If they had, they would have brushed the incident off, told the kid not to do it again, gave him detention for a week and been on their merry way. Sure they're "following the rules", but they will have been more than happy to apply as much resources as possible to making an example of this kid as they can. I have four kids in this very school system - they take ZERO tolerance to extremes. Example: You forget your gym shorts, you're sitting in ISS for the day. I am NOT joking.

I would describe that person as typical in this modern society.

 

[exdeath]

What a waste.

Once one is suicidal and life ruined anyway, one can accomplish much that people with lives can't do and which voters won't do.... Ill just leave it at that.

 

[BudAshes]

They should have arrested all the adults there and charged them with as sex offenders for looking at a naked 15 year old.

 

[Theb]

Campbell added that that the incident was not just a prank and needed to be treated seriously.

Well WTF was it then?

 

[SunnyD]

Well WTF was it then?

A classic overreaction by the school system hell bent on enforcing "zero tolerance" policies.

 

[Ns1]

Well WTF was it then?

the beginnings of a sexual sadist.

 

[BudAshes]

the beginnings of a sexual sadist.

I streaked several times as a teenager and I can tell you I am definitely a sexual sadist. Just yesterday instead of going inside to pee in the bathroom I just let it flow in my back yardD:

 

[lupi]

Seen enough stories lately that make me think this whole sex offender list on the verge of doing as much harm as good.

 

[halik]

Common Sense has left this society at least a decade ago.