15 year old jailed for 12 days after wrongly accused of hoax bomb threat

[Irb]

A fifteen-year old boy in America was incarcerated for twelve days, wrongly accused of making a hoax bomb threat - because his school had forgotten that the clocks had gone forward.

Cody Webb was arrested last month, after Hempfield Area High School received a bomb threat on their student hotline – which provides a range of information to students about the school - at 3.17am on March 11th. They believed they'd found the culprit when they traced the phone number they thought was responsible to Webb.

Unfortunately, the school forgot that the clocks had switched to Daylight Saving Time that morning. The time stamps left on the hotline were adjusted by an hour after Day Light Savings causing Webb's call to logged as the same time the bomb threat was placed. Webb, who's never even had a detention in his life, had actually made his call an hour before the bomb threat was placed.

Despite the fact that the recording of the call featured a voice that sounded nothing like Webb's, the police arrested Webb and he spent 12 days in a juvenile detention facility before the school eventually realised their mistake.

Webb gave an insight into the school's impressive investigative techniques, saying that he was ushered in to see the principal, Kathy Charlton. She asked him what his phone number was, and , according to Webb, when he replied 'she started waving her hands in the air and saying “we got him, we got him.”'

'They just started flipping out, saying I made a bomb threat to the school,' he told local television station KDKA. After he protested his innocence, Webb says that the principal said: 'Well, why should we believe you? You're a criminal. Criminals lie all the time.'

All charges against Webb have now been dropped.

http://www.passablynews.com/index.ph...&id=1175830780

The principal is a moron

[ji2o0k]

Time to sue baby !! Yeah baby yeah, we hit the jackpot !

Principal is definitely an idiot....

[JaGWiRE]

http://www.passablynews.com/index.ph...&id=1175830780

The principal is a moron

Shoot that principal.

[Irb]

http://www.hempfieldarea.k12.pa.us/w...lton/index.htm

Principal: Kathy Charlton
E-mail:
k.charlton@hempfieldarea.k12.pa.us
School: Hempfield High School
School Phone: 724-834-9000
Voice Mail: 724-850-2058

Let's all harass her for being such a *****. I'm going to start calling now with IP relay.

http://www.ip-relay.com/

[ji2o0k]

just noticed the school's name..........maybe the principal has been smoking some of the wacky tabacky ?

[HSK]

Let's all harass her for being such a *****. I'm going to start calling now with IP relay.

http://www.ip-relay.com/

^ what an ass

[hooch]

Let's all harass her for being such a *****. I'm going to start calling now with IP relay.

http://www.ip-relay.com/

It's probably best that you don't. You don't have all the information, only what's been given out by the media. Harassing them for something like this, is probably illegal, but also morally, puts you on in the same light as the principal.

Yeah, it sucks and it'd be nice to get at the "bad guy" but let those whom it directly affected take action first and get their dues.

[Kasakato]

Civil suit time! That principal wont be there much longer.

[Siefer999]

what an ass of a principal. if i were his parents, i would sue someone

[whampoa]

Spartan, tonight we dine in Hell!!!

[Odysseus_Maximus]

Principal=tool

[Alvito]

sue the schoolboard.

[skyblue12]

LOL.. the principal is a douche -_-

[vsavka]

wow this is retarted, get ur **** straight dumb ass americans

[Neverever]

What a bunch of ****ing idiots. That kid should switch schools.