Delinquents in tears after shoplifting spree

[Andrew49]

Schoolboys from an notorious Catholic-run school have gone on a shoplifting spree.

* Stole $6k of goods from seven shops
* Teachers paid for damaged garments
* Students weren't charged

A bag search by teachers and store staff uncovered a variety of stolen garments and souvenirs - many damaged where security tags had been ripped off. Police Sergeant Steve Watt said today the teachers paid for the damaged garments and the boys, some of whom were crying, were made to call their parents and report their deeds. The school has attracted negative publicity in the past, including the entire Year 12 group being suspended in 2008 when end-of-year antics led to one student being taken to hospital amid public complaints of students' drunken, violent behaviour.

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Let this be another salutary lesson to them - next time they'll be slapped ... quite hard.

[The Field Marshal]

Yawn.
More scandalmongering from a rabid anti catholic poster.

[Andrew49]

Yawn.
More scandalmongering from a rabid anti catholic poster.

Come now FM if these were kids from the local council estate we'd have lurid tabloid headlines bemoaning the lack of parenting of the welfare class.
The broadsheets might be more thoughtful - some Indo reports:
13 June 2010 | Opinion | Irish Independent
Alarm over number of crimes committed by those out on bail

22 May 2010 | Entertainment | Irish Independent
Delving deep into the city's grimy underbelly

06 May 2010 | Opinion | Irish Independent
State negligent over child crime

04 May 2010 | Opinion | Irish Independent
In fear of our child gangsters

04 May 2010 | National News | Irish Independent
Courts ban teens from head shops

04 May 2010 | National News | Irish Independent
Huge surge in child crime as numbers before court double

04 May 2010 | Opinion | Irish Independent

[The Field Marshal]

Come now FM if these were kids from the local council estate we'd have lurid tabloid headlines bemoaning the lack of parenting of the welfare class.

Why do you spend what looks like most of your time trawling the internet to find specific instances of catholic misbehaviour and then posting special threads to highlight it as some type of triumphalist sectarian gesture.

That is the way the very worst type of orange sectarian Northern bigots behave.

Are you one of them by any chance?

[Andrew49]

Why do you spend what looks like most of your time trawling the internet to find specific instances of catholic misbehaviour and then posting special threads to highlight it as some type of triumphalist sectarian gesture.

That is the way the very worst type of orange sectarian Northern bigots behave.

Are you one of them by any chance?

The newspaper the story is from is my web newspaper of choice - it is the News Website of the Year as well - and I delve in there ever day and I have posted stories from it here and elsewhere - not many of those have a Catholic connection.

The fact that these delinquents are from a Jesuit school does add a bit of spice to the story but the main flavour in the story is the fact that the delinquents are the 'children of the elite' and they have suffered no sanctions under the law.