I’m no where near having kids of my own, but homeschooling looks more and more appealing by the day.
The 6th and 7th-grade girls attend Bartow Middle School in Florida, police say. At 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, the Bartow Police School Resource Officer assigned to the school was summoned to the principal’s office in reference to an armed juvenile complaint.
The investigation revealed that the students armed themselves with knives, and planned on attacking fellow students during the school day.
Again– the two girls– who claimed to worship Satan– planned on murdering their classmates and drinking their blood. That’s a special kind of evil.
The only reason authorities foiled the attack? Because another student HEARD something and SAID something.
According to the Bartow Police Department, a student warned a teacher on Monday about one of the girl’s mentioning that “something bad” would happen in building 500 of the middle school. The superintendent said extra officers were at the school on Tuesday as a result of this warning. After one of the girl’s mother received a robo-call alerting her that her child was not in second period, she called the school to inform teachers that the child should be there.
Bartow Middle School staff immediately began to search the campus. They found the two girls in a bathroom. The girls were holding a goblet which an administrator suspected was being used to drink alcohol.
The girls emptied their backpacks in the principal’s office, revealing a pizza cutter and butcher knife. They planned on hacking unsuspecting people who walked into the bathroom.
“They noted that they wanted to kill at least 15 people and were waiting in the bathroom to find smaller kids that they could overpower to be their victims,” Bartow Police Chief Joe Hall said. “I believe that these two small children. I’m going to call them small children, they are only 11 and 12, seriously sat down and plotted to do bodily harm to another student at school.”
UNREAL.
To finish it off, the girls discussed eating the flesh of their victims, leaving random body parts around the school and then committing suicide.
“Killing all of these students was in hopes it would make them worse sinners ensuring that after they committed suicide … (they) would go to hell so they could be with Satan,” the arrest affidavit reads.
The Bartow Police released this statement:
This post is in reference to the recent incident at Bartow Middle School where two juveniles were arrested yesterday for a plot to harm other students. No students or staff were harmed.
An important message from Bartow Police Chief Joe Hall:
Parents and guardians of children in our Bartow Schools: I understand that the recent news of a plot to kill students at Bartow Middle School is troubling. In fact, it shook me to my core when I was notified of it. However, I want to make it clear that your children are our most precious citizens here in the City and we do everything we can, every single day to make sure our children are safe. We work very closely with the Polk County School Board and I want to assure you that I will do everything in my power to ensure safety.
I am very proud of the staff at Bartow Middle School and my staff at the Police Department for thwarting this plot from becoming a tragedy. There are several measures in place to make sure our children are safe and that ALL threats of violence are addressed. In this isolated incident, these protocols worked. I believe in these protocols and we will continue to follow them.
Remember, if you see something, say something. It worked in this incident.
Joe Hall
Absolutely horrifying.
If you SEE something, SAY something. It could save lives. In this case, it certainly did.
h/t ABC Action News