A Virginia mother who placed a recording device in her 9-year-old daughter’s backpack to help prove to school officials that she was being bullied has been charged by police with a felony.
Local news station WAVY reports that Norfolk resident Sarah Sims grew fed up with her local elementary school’s failure to take action to prevent her daughter from being bullied. To put the school’s feet to the fire, she planted a recorder in her daughter’s backpack to show them direct evidence that she was a victim of a bullying campaign.
However, when the school found the recorder and then moved her daughter to a different classroom.
What surprised her even more, says tells WAVY, is that she was subsequently charged with a felony.Specifically, WAVY says police charged Sims with “use of device to intercept oral communication and misdemeanor contributing to the delinquency of a minor,” which could carry up to five years in prison.
3) Black people are assumed to be less trustworthy than white people. (http://www.pnas.org/content/108/19/7710.full) Therefore, a white child who reports bullying is more likely to be taken at their word. The same is true for the parents who report bullying to the school.
4) Black people are more likely to be punished and more severely. (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/17/opinion/sunday/unequal-sentences-for-blacks-and-whites.html) At every level of the criminal justice system, there’s a disparity between white consequences and Black consequences and in any given situation, there’s a higher probability of someone seeking legal recourse against a Black person than a white one.
5) White women get to be protected and coddled and Black women do not. I don’t need a link for that because we all have eyes and ears.
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