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A Pennsylvania high school senior faces assault charges after he allegedly broke a school nurse’s hip while in a drunken rage.
Since Wednesday was an exam day, seniors were allowed to arrive late at Pennsville Memorial High School, Salem County.
Pennsville Township Police told NBC10’s Chris Cato that the 17-year-old and his friend Manpreet Singh, 18, used the opportunity to get drunk.
The 17-year-old, who wasn’t identified because he is a minor, began to act belligerent in class.
"They took him from the classroom and took him to the principal's office," said police Lt. A.J. Cummings.
Sources told Cato that when the boy was confronted with a Breathalyzer test that he went nuts and shoved the principal. He then allegedly burst out the office door, knocking down school nurse Marilyn English.
English, 68, suffered a broken hip and remained in South Jersey Healthcare Elmer Hospital Friday night.
"I'm doing as well as can be expected for the type of injury it is," English said by phone.
She told Cato that the boy never stopped. Police sources said he kept going right out of the building. Police said they later picked him up around 11:20 a.m. but not before he kicked an officer.
The 17-year-old faces three assault charges, disorderly conduct and alcohol charges while Singh, who police say supplied the alcohol, faces an alcohol charge.
The Pennsville School District had no comment on what discipline both teens could face.
Neither teens' parents wanted to talk to NBC10. The minor’s mother slammed the door on Cato and Singh’s mother had no comment.
As for the school nurse hurt during the teen’s alleged rage, English told Cato that she hoped the action of a couple students didn’t reflect on the majority of students saying this was an "isolated" and "abnormal" incident.
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Drinking just never makes people any smarter.
I agree. Why would you get drunk and go to school to take tests. Why didn't he just skip school.
Hold on one minute. How did he do on his tests. For all we know he made the honor roll...NOT!
Things are going so well in this great country of mine, for this is what the news media is reporting to us. Schmucks like this have been doing this for many moons now. Dig a bit deeper Mr./Mrs. news editor.
Teachers in Pennsylvania should follow South Dakota's lead. Carry guns to class.
Yea because if your drunk you deserve to get shot....
Dick, the High School executioner.
Pennsville High in Salem County is in New Jersey. Woops!
I wonder if their parents are proud of them now.
No, the kid does not deserve to get shot. But, waking up in the intensive care ward in traction might be a shock to the little sh!t! Not a very good idea to kick a policeman that is probably not thrilled about your belligerence in the first place, especially when you broken the hip of one of their female senior citizens. Yes, smooth move on your part slick! Real genius!
Intervention now!
This kid has a future in the WWE or UFC/MMA.
or the military, if not first 6 months inside of a jail cell.
Was this report written by a high schooler?
"....began to act belligerent in class."
Most high school students should know that "belligerent" is an adjective. They should also know that an adverb would be correct in this sentence.
"...began to act belligerently." How did he act? He acted belligerently, or with belligerence.
The reporter began to write ignorant.
The reporter was drunk when he wrote this and a match made in drunkenness.
You are correct,Mailman.I as well am saddened by poor spelling,poor punctuation,and the education system overall. However,I still keep hope in my heart.
NBC news, please correct the mistakes!!!! Including the state where this occurred, which was not in PA!!!
Was the school on lock down after the kid left?
How many years has the young man been on Ritalin?
Ban Ritalin and all psychotic brats.
There has always been teen males like this dope. It's just that there also used to be reform school and military school to give them the instructive discipline they don't get at home.
I will bet my next paycheck, that this kid will get off. The excuses: Why ruin a young man's young because of a youthful indiscretion? He was drunk, he not responsible.
Add your excuse:
They're not here legally.
I'd like to take you up on that offer.
One time when I was in high school a kid brought a jug of Spanada. It was a hot day at lunchtime. 7 or 8 or kids got tipsy. We were just sent home. The principal was trying to keep from laughing. This was in California.
If there's a lawsuit they should go after the kids parents and the parents of the kid who gave him the liquor for every cent they've got. That's the only way to affect people like this who will hurt others without caring a bit, in their purses. Too often when going after the deep pockets the actual perpetrator gets off scott free and since they don't care about anyone else they'll offend again. When a person has no conscience and willingly hurts others there's no other deterent than their money, something that will get through the wall of selfishness. If that were the norm fewer crimes would be committed.
Lawsuit will depend on the other kid's ethnicity and last name.
It's not an excuse and he should be arrested, but rage disorders are so prevalent in this generation. By disorder, I mean a complete lack of fear of consequences and a will to confront people who can obviously take them. It's so unusual. There also doesn't seem to be an effective treatment for it, sadly. By treatment, I mean medication. I'm sure people will post other, rather uneducated treatments.
That's because they no longer respect or fear their parents. They are taught that they don't have to. My mom and dad would have kicked my ass if I had done something like this, they would be the first ones to turn me in and tell the judge to throw the book at me. But now days they are babied and coddled and told that they are "special". My dad was the best, I will always love and respect him, I miss him terribly. I am 60 years old and still would not even consider swearing in front of my mother.
And can we assume that by "they" you mean every teenager? Or do you mean only the one's here illegally as John Smithe claims (without definitive fact)?
It's not a "rage disorder," angelikowoah. It is complete lack of respect for any authority figure, and a sense of rebellion against.........I would be willing to bet that he doesn't even understand who/what he is rebelling against. Forget anger management drugs. Behavioral science people tell us that these types of behaviors are pretty much learned by the age of 5 - 6 years old. His family/friends called it "cute" when he had a tantrum. He was told that he had unlimited freedom to do anything to anyone whenever he chose to do so. And, this is the outcome. Doesn't happen to all.....but there will be some who take it to extreme measures. I feel sorry for all......especially those hurt. And, I feel sorry for the young person who did those things. He is headed towards a long life of problems. ("Who broke the child?")
angelikowoah,
Allow me to posit what you may consider to be an "uneducated treatment" (i.e., not medication).
I cannot speak to this individual case, but it appears to me that the "disorders" that people cite are not medical conditions at all. Rather, they are due to a lack of discipline, which in turn is due to a lack of parenting. It is much easier to medicate than it is to educate. It is much easier to blame than to change. Chemical discipline is not always the answer.
Because teaching self discipline to children has become passe. Modern parents think they can just let their kids "happen", actually an excuse for lazy parenting. They grow up and have no self control; they continue to essentially throw childish temper tantrums throughout their adult lives.
Hi, db...
I so rarely disagree with you... but....
I've seen teens from good homes with good "raising" go off like this. Explosive, with no really good reason or trigger. In one instance it was because the girl knew the zero tolerance policy of the school for having a cell phone on the bus at the time was going to get her kicked off the basketball team.
She had simply forgot to leave it in her locker, had attended the away game, got back to school, was about to step off the bus, when it rang out. She tried to talk the coach down but she was unsuccessful and on school grounds right beside the bus she went wild. Never had a discipline problem in her life, but she loved basketball (wasn't that good at it but loved to play and socialize with her friends).
Someone called police, she was sent to detention...
Of course, this boy was drunk at school, a definite no--no, but as to these rages, I'm still leaning toward chemicals in our food supply over the last three or four decades producing problems with impulse control in brain function of the last few generations. Look at the bizarre killings we've had, the mutilations... all younger type people, not old fogeys like me.
An effective treatment would be a butt whipping and grounding. Time out and counting to 5 or 10 does NOT work. Hasn't anyone figured that out yet?
Of course it would help if parent's were present, actively engaged in their childrens lives and teach them that actions have consequences.
Sadly, they will probably blame the school for "picking" on their little boy and asking him to take a breathalyzer. Geez a loo......it's time to wake up and start parenting and stop medicating just because kids are "active". That's the way kids are! You can tell where everything is going wrong all the way from the child throwing the fit at the store because they aren't getting what they want all the way to the school nurse with a broken hip.
It's a parenting problem if the kid has been acting that way previously.
ga mimi
Point taken.
btw pennsville is in new jersey, the article claimed student was from pennsylvania.
Incredibly bad editing, as usual!
And mommy and daddy will sue the school district for some ridiculous reason.
I have an idea though, how about the nurse sues mommy and daddy for negligent supervision, etc., takes the kid's college money and the kid does 60 days in some hellhole local jail? Seems about right.
Yes, the parents should be held responsible. Kids who are raised right don't do things like this.
Parents should not be punished for the behavior of "children" who are 17 or 18 years old. Just expel these two from school and let them do some time in jail.
Give me a break homesick wanker your trying to tell me you never drank an ounce of alcohol while you attended high school, not necessarily during school but during the years you attended. This is somehow the the parents fault. You must not be a parent to make a statement blaming the parents for their teenage kids actions. For all we know the child has caring loving parents. The actions of children nowadays are induced by peers, depressing music, bad eating habits, video gaming, bad television, the list goes on. Social Dysfunctional Disorder I think I just created a new disorder, SDD. It is a shame how our society acts upon our children but we do our best to correct and teach them, unfortunately us parents are at war with opposing forces such as greed, selfishness, sex, the media, and this list goes on and on as well. We have come upon an age where protecting and sheltering our children from these forces can no longer happen without solitary confinement. It is a sad world we now live in a self destructive world at that.
Someone should kick the crap out of this kid.
Hell yeah! That'll set a fine example as to how bad uncontrolled rage is.
Piglizard.....
That is how you learn to control rage. Unacceptable behavour has a price. And sometimes it calls for more that taking a time out.
Perhaps a more disciplined upbringing could have help this kid. But, that is so last Century and unfashionable today.
Psychologists would have us believe that we learned nothing about parenting over the several millennia of man's existence and have recently changed everything to make it "right." We aren't allowed to lay a hand on our children anymore. When I was young we were afraid of our parents and our teachers and we grew up with respect for others. If we got in trouble in school we were given a good lickin' at home. Psychologists are full of crap, one comes up with a theory based on very limited research and they all jump on board like a bunch of lemmings. Recovered memory therapy, which planted false memories in people's minds, tore families apart and ruined countless lives. This is no longer used, a tacit admission that they were wrong, yet not a single psychologist was charged for the lives they destroyed with their arrogance and stupidity.
The use of recovered memory was not nearly as prevalent as you suppose. It was and still is a minor subset of behavioral thought. Of much greater import, because it came to guide our nation's economic direction, is supply side economics. Talk about a bunch of lemmings blindly following individuals supporting a completely misguided and unproven theory.
@Leroy......I remember when I was a kid, (I'm 68 now), about a Psychologist stating that divorce was no big thing, because kids were strong, and could handle it. As you say, many (most), are so full of their own learning, that reason and good sense has left them. And, they will never be charged for the human suffering that has happened because of their crap.
That drunk kid & his family should be liable for All of the nurses medical bills related to the hip injury. At her age this ordeal probably is gonna shorten her life by a few years.
Also, to be that violent at that age after drinking the kid will most likely spend a substantial portion of his life incarcerated. He needs to not drink alcohol. Ever..
Workman's comp will pay for all of it.
One GOOD ass kicking would help this young man.
Probably not, although to most Americans it sounds suitable. Normally, diseased people aren't beaten to effect a cure.
No, but it might be fun for someone with a sadistic disorder. If he could be properly crippled, it would reduce the damage he could do when he gets drunk again.
"If this 17 year-old kid had a firearm, as well as the 68 year-old nurse, Marilyn English, this situation would have ended better." - Wayne LaPierre, CEO, NRA
Glad you brought that up Bob, as part of a rational, national debate. You've certainly made a point.
I suppose someone had to say it, but actually a succinct point.
Yeah, two or more people would be dead, that would be much better.
Why is this national news?
Because of the injury to the nurse.
if that principal had any a$$ and that nurse was 10 yrs younger with some self defense training, that kid would be on the floor crying for his mommy and nobody would've gotten hurt.
Don't give me your @!$%#. I have TWO sons who were teens and tried this crap. today they are grown men and don't come around me drunk showing their a$$e$ and they never will. when a 5'6" woman knocks a 6 ft drunk on his back and steps on his throat, it's not something they forget over night - STOP CODDLING THESE MONSTERS - WHAT IN HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!?
Bitch, shut the hell up.
Gee Dave, you sound like part of the problem.
Allright, we all hate the kid. And he certainly acted like a total jerk. But do you remember what it was like the first few times you got drunk? I do, and I did some thoroughly stupid stuff, which embarrasses me to think about now. Luckily, nobody got hurt. But the voice of reason and common sense completely vanished. That's what happened here, except, unfortunately, someone did get hurt.
I get your point but this situation is different. I think nearly all of us have a drunk teenager story because even if you don't abuse alcohol the first few times you drink it, it really affects you because you aren't used to it. This is different because he got drunk in the morning, not at night at a bar or party with friends, he was drinking before a test he knew he had to take, not during leisure time, and he became so violent that he seriously injured an elderly woman and attacked several others, including a police officer. There is nothing about this situation that has to do with normal teen experimentation with alcohol. (actually from the sound of things I think this kid has been drinking for quite a while and no one knew it until now).
I don't know about you, Mis Mann, but I never committed a violent assault on anyone when I'd been drinking.
A long stint in a real rehab (not one of those weeks in a spa....) followed by jail time might be a start.
Hope they charge the parents of the kids. Most of this behavior is crappy parenting, if parents were held responsible for their kids' action a lot of this nonsense would be avoided. Kids who are raised right don't do this stuff.
Give me a break homesick wanker your trying to tell me you never drank an ounce of alcohol while you attended high school, not necessarily during school but during the years you attended. This is somehow the the parents fault. You must not be a parent to make a statement blaming the parents for their teenage kids actions. For all we know the child has caring loving parents. The actions of children nowadays are induced by peers, depressing music, bad eating habits, video gaming, bad television, the list goes on. Social Dysfunctional Disorder I think I just created a new disorder, SDD. It is a shame how our society acts upon our children but we do our best to correct and teach them, unfortunately us parents are at war with opposing forces such as greed, selfishness, sex, the media, and this list goes on and on as well. We have come upon an age where protecting and sheltering our children from these forces can no longer happen without solitary confinement. It is a sad world we now live in a self destructive world at that.
If they smoked pot, this would not have happened.
That reminds me of a twitter page. Called the Devil's Lettuce or something.
They put up old 40s/50s style propaganda posters and photoshop new ones on "How bad it is to smoke the Devil's lettuce!" Some of them are just f*cking hilarious.
why not paddle his butt in front of the whole school?.......for starters anyway.
congress better drop everything and legislate some new laws to stop these types of activities.. Call for back ground checks for beer buyers.
The 68 year old bag should've gotten out of the way. She has no one to blame but herself for injecting herself into a volatile situation.
@ DAve.....first comment you made, you called someone a "bitch." Secondly, you said that the "68 year old bag," referring presumably to the school nurse.....I assume that the school nurse was the right person to administer the breathalyzer. She was there doing her job. Your referring to others the way that you do tells me that you have some growing up to do. Are you a cousin of the guy who got drunk? Where did you learn YOUR set of values? Seems like you and the drunk teen are two branches off the same tree.
Thank you!
Correction, Thank you hikeinmts!
hikeinmts,
Your thinking about the family tree is probably correct. However, not sure that the family tree, in this case, has any branches!
hikeinmts,
Just FYI, Dave-2292019 is the parent of the child!
I hope we don't see any future news from this family.....it can be ugly!
Charge him as an adult and let him serve his time in the general population at a real prison. He will smarten up a bit, but probably not be rehabilitated. He has now pretty much ruined his chances of graduating with honors this year.