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We should hear from the victim too

Sunday, November 4 at 2:00 PM

Dan Montgomery, Chief of Police (Retired) of Westminster writes:

I read Bill Johnson’s column on October 26 regarding little Johnny Boy, age 13, who received a criminal summons from the police for allegedly slapping a female classmate on the buttocks. Bill may well be right that this was nothing more than a kid thing that has no business being in the criminal justice system. Or, he may be dead wrong, and this slapping may be a lot more than what we know.
The problem is that we simply do not have all the facts Before rendering judgments based on what little Johnny Boy has to say, what mommy has to say, and what little Johnny Boy’s attorney has to say, maybe we ought to hear from the victim, the police and the district attorney. There is a whole different side here and Johnson’s conclusions are extremely premature and knee-jerk. His use of the term, “outrageous” to describe what the authorities did in this matter is based on nothing more than what little Johnny Boy, his mommy and his attorney had to say, hardly what you’d call an objective perspective, and Johnson bought it, hook, line and sinker. For shame.

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