Special Ed Student Charged For Wetting Pants

**THL** · 05 Jan 07,, 05:45

Pa. student hit with disorderly conduct charge for intentional discharge
The Associated Press
Updated: 9:16 p.m. CT Jan 4, 2007

DANVILLE, Pa. - A 12-year-old special education student was charged with disorderly conduct after authorities said she deliberately wet her pants at school.

Her mother told the Press Enterprise of Bloomsburg that the girl urinated only because she was frightened by the principal.

The girl, whose name was withheld by the newspaper, had worked with her classmates and teachers preparing a holiday lunch at Danville Middle School on Dec. 20. They ate in the library and the girl was told to go to the kitchen to wash some pots and pans, her mother said.

After she refused to leave the library, teachers summoned principal Kevin Duckworth, who confronted the girl. She then wet her pants.

Her mother said the girl is terrified by Duckworth and has wet herself during previous confrontations with him. She said her daughter has had disciplinary problems at the school but has never become violent.

Police Chief Eric Gill said school officials were at "wit's end" with the girl, and that they believe her actions were deliberate.

School Superintendent Steve Keifer would not discuss the confrontation, but said that as a general rule the police are called only after "all other alternatives are exhausted."

Police told the girl's parents they could probably avoid a fine if they agree to have the girl do community service.

Duckworth did not return messages left by the newspaper and by The Associated Press.

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**jame$thegreat** · 05 Jan 07,, 22:44

That fiend! I call death penalty, this is one instance where we should dust off that electric chair! That is just unforgivable!

**bonehead** · 06 Jan 07,, 05:09

Right on! That principal should swing from the nearest tree.

From the story alone, it is clear that that school is not giving that girl what she needs. School officials are waging a war of wits and wills with a scecial ed girl and are losing.

**bonehead** · 06 Jan 07,, 05:10

Right on! That principal should swing from the nearest tree.

From the story alone, it is clear that that school is not giving that girl what she needs. School officials are waging a war of wits and wills with a special ed girl and are losing.

**Debbie** · 06 Jan 07,, 19:58

There is a medical term for the condition the girl has - wetting when confronted by authority, or terrified as the article states. Can't think of the term now. Very few people will debase themselves that way on purpose and I highly doubt that she did this as a deliberate act. This story is appalling not only that it seems she is being singled out as a special ed student but why should this girl do community service? That doesn't make any sense.

I think the school officials should be loaded all up on a bus, placed out in the middle of nowhere and terrified to the point where they urinate or defacte on themselves. They are then told that was an unacceptable action and then be made to do community service by washing pots and pans in a group home whose residents all have special needs.