AND SELF-DEFENCE IS INCORRECT

Thirteen-year-old Daryl Gray of Jonesboro, Ga., has been convicted of aggravated battery and could do five years behind bars, the Associated Press reports. Daryl, a student at Pointe South Middle School, did do something serious: He "struck another boy in the face with a pencil. The boy was seriously injured and has been left permanently scarred."

But juvenile court judge Leslie Gresham refuses to take into account the mitigating circumstances, namely that Daryl said he had been bullied for two years. He "says he has been hit, called gay and even had his shoes urinated on in the school restroom." Daryl had never been in trouble before, and the boy he injured had just hit him over the head.

Via "Opinion Journal"