Don't report getting squirted by a kid, go to jail.

[Jon Beets]

I went to that link and read the entire article and I have some real doubts
to its accuracy....

Jon Beets
Pacer Communications


----- Original Message -----
From: "Victoria Barracks" <vb at ears.au>
To: <cypherpunks at cyberpass.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 10:17 AM
Subject: Don't report getting squirted by a kid, go to jail.


> http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-weizner061201.shtml
>
>
>     The first person charged under CCAA, Hector Flores, was a
>                        deliveryman for NotFauna.com. Two years ago,
> while
>                        carrying a heavy vase of flowers into the home of
> a
>                        paraplegic customer, he was squirted by one of
> the
>                        customer's kids with a water pistol. The customer
> apologized
>                        and Flores forgot about the matter, but
> subsequently, when
>                        the same child squirted a pizza-delivery man, who
> reported
>                        the incident, the ensuing investigation uncovered
> the previous
>                        assault on Flores. Flores was charged with child
> abuse for
>                        having failed to report the episode, which might
> have
>                        prevented the attack on the pizza deliverer.
> Convicted and
>                        sentenced to two years in a facility for child
> molesters, Flores
>                        appealed, arguing that the law referred only to
> actual
>                        firearms, not to purple water pistols. The court
> ruled that
>                        although the language of the statute read
> "firearms" and not
>                        "actual firearms," the prosecution had
> nevertheless acted
>                        reasonably in extending the state's school policy
> of zero
>                        tolerance to the home.
>
>                        After his release, Flores will be required to
> register as a child
>                        abuser wherever he lives while serving his 19
> years'
>                        probation. The child will be returned to his
> family later this
>                        year when his parents have completed the state's
> Violence
>                        Begins in the Home crime-prevention program.
>
>
>