I’d love to know the background for this story…had he done it or tried to do it before? Had she complained to a teacher and was ignored?
Note that they both were charged by police.
Sounds like self-defense to me. “Only playing”–the boys will be boys defense.
Good for her. If my son came home injured from a scissor stabbing because he was pulling up a young girls dress, he’d be one sorry young man. I am vehemently disgusted by the “boys will be boys” mantra that allows this type of behavior.
I truly hope all charges are dismissed that the girl faces.
Yes, definitely sounds like self defense.
I have this image of this boy doing something similar, her complaining to the teacher, and nothing was done about it. I hope we find out more of the background.
The boy should definitely be severely punished but I do not think her stabbing him can be forgiven and I hope it is not.
Wish I’d thought of this 45 years ago when it happened to me. I was 10 and I have never forgotten the humiliation.
If it is true that complaint was made to the teacher and nothing was done about it, the girl probably would have taken the scissors to the teacher as well.
I am surprised that sharp-pointed scissors are still allowed in classrooms.
I’d also like to know if they were alone or whether other students or a teacher were in the classroom. Stabbing seems an overreaction. A slap or kick would have sent the message without risking serious injury.
Maybe she already tried those things. We don’t know.
I feel the need to quote my mom here “he’s lucky it was a kid that came after him with the scissors and not ME!” (she would’ve said that to nearly any situation like this 
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Boo hoo. Bet he’ll never do THAT again.
If she had swiped at him with the scissors and missed, he just would have mocked her further. We all know the type.
I don’t care if it was the first time or the 100th time. I don’t care if anyone else was there or if she’d ever told anyone else before. He sexually assaulted her, she defended herself. Since I am doubtful that this girl has ever received any training in how to physically defend herself from a sexual attack without going too far, I’m going to say that she should not be punished in the least.
D. Not enough information.
I’m quite ok with the girl defending herself with scissors.
However I do hope charges against both kids are dropped. I think they’ve both learned a lesson. The boy has learned not to mess with girls in that way, and the girl has learned to stand up for herself but hopefully next time with less lethal means. Jail time for either wouldn’t add anything, and I don’t know the boy but am going to presume that he doesn’t deserve to be on the sexual offender registry for the rest of his life due to this incident.
This is one of those “it depends” situations. If the girl thought she was going to be raped right then, she is entitled to defend herself with lethal force. Otherwise, if she was just angry, embarrassed, you aren’t entitled to try to injure/main/kill another child.
I spend a lot of time in Memphis. It is a very violent city in areas, plenty of impoverished people, families with no dad in sight. People will kill each other for any imagined slight. Life is not valued, gangs flourish. Killing someone for very little is par for the course.
Most of the city and surrounding areas are pretty safe, but there are areas and groups of people who are highly at risk, I suspect this school is in one of those areas. I wouldn’t be celebrating violence in any way.
Rape or not, this is still sexual assault.
Here’s the school’s profile: https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/tennessee/districts/shelby-co/central-high-school-18088
What if she cut an artery or stabbed him in the eye, would you still say it was a reasonable self-defense?
^^ I suppose that if you are going around lifting girls’ skirts you’d better be prepared for whatever they do to defend themselves.