13-Year-Old Charged With 128 Felonies

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A 13-year-old boy is charged in juvenile court with 128 felonies in what police call a small-town crime spree.

The boy, in juvenile detention pending a pretrial hearing later this month, faces delinquency counts of burglary, theft, vandalism and witness intimidation.

"In my 30 years of doing this, I've never had a juvenile that young with so many charges," Athens County Prosecutor C. David Warren said Tuesday.

Police accuse the boy of breaking into homes and businesses in Nelsonville, a small, rural town 55 miles southeast of Columbus, and of stealing checks from elderly residents, Warren said.

He also is accused of beating one of the witnesses who turned him in, Warren said.

At least three other youths, one of them 10 years old, also have been charged, Warren said.

The boy could be freed at 21 even if he is convicted of all 128 counts, prosecutors said.

"We either get him rehabilitated now in the juvenile system or we will be dealing with him for the rest of his life," Warren said.

[206bigbaby]

ok im 16 teen and i have been locked up my fair share of time and locking a kid up is just going to make him mad sence i have been out i have notced every time i get out i just get mader and mader

[Zia_Gia]

Ok, thsi is nothing new no matter how you spin it. Children have been doing these things and will contenue to do them as long as parrents decide to not be parrents. He needs punished and put in a strict environment. In all honesty, hit him with the book, but that will not change the fact that his mother and father are to blame also. His parrents need to face charges. I've seen and dealt with the same **** in school. Its nothing new, they just found a town that is willing to throw a child to the wolves.

[zootallures2]

Put him in the zoo with the baboons. See how he likes getting his bananas stolen and being intimidated by an ignorant animal.

[bb19631]

NO, THE KIDS NAME SHOULDNT BE PRINTED OR HIS ADDRESS. BUT, HE DESERVED HIS A-- BEAT. ENOUGH SO HE WOULDNT FORGET IT. KIDS ARE SO OUT OF CONTROL THESE DAYS. PUT HIM IN JUVIE, HE COMES OUT PRISON MATERIAL.

[madman1972]

Man, that's way off base. Maybe a little white trying to be like Mike, lol.

[drew30319-2009]

An article complete with photo of the accused is available at The Columbus Dispatch:

http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2007/03/14/20070314-B4-02.html

[mmw12]

I would really like it if people would see these children as individuals who have free will. It is not always the family or the Parents fault. Jailing the parents would do nothing to curtail this childs actions. I think the blame should lay squarely on the individual who does the action.

[sneakee1]

To blame this on any Presidential office shows just how ignorant our american public can be. This comes from un-involved parents who don't have time to raise kids but just keeps pumping more out at home. Our justice system cannot handle juvies with this type misdirection and he will lead a life of in and out of prisions for now til his death. Hopefully a God fearing pearson will get involved with this childs life and show him the path to right & wrong and lead him out of the hole his parents have dug for him.

[benatwhodotnet]

The ONN apparently did not know they could not print Andrew Riley's name or where he went to school.

[dredre2k]

Where are his parents? They should be responsible for letting this out-of-control tyrant run the streets.