(WWJ) – Another student in Wayne County has been charged with making a school threat.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy on Saturday charged a 12-year-old male student at Trillium Academy in Taylor with making an intentional threat to commit an act of violence against a school, school employees or students.
The boy allegedly made a threat against the school on Friday, Dec. 17, the last day before Christmas break.
Metro Detroit schools have dealt with a flood of school threats in the three weeks since the deadly Oxford High School shooting, leading to dozens of charges.
The Downriver student is the 42nd to be charged in Wayne County alone, while there had been 30 students charged in Macomb County and 17 in Oakland County as of last Thursday.
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Law enforcement and school officials have been warning students and parents that they will take all threats – even those that aren’t credible – seriously and will prosecute those responsible to the fullest extent.
“Whenever you make such a threat, it’s not fun, it’s not funny, it’s not a game,” Worthy told WWJ earlier this month.
The Trillium Academy student was given a $500 cash bond and is scheduled for a pre-trial hearing on Thursday – a day before his 13th birthday.
The prosecutor’s office notes that juveniles do not receive adult sentences. Upon conviction, the judge will fashion a sentence considering the crime committed, and the rehabilitation of the juvenile offender.
