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Boy, 11, given CRASBO
11:27am Wednesday 30th January 2013 in News
AN 11-year-old Kidderminster boy has been given a two-year Criminal Anti Social Behaviour Order (CRASBO) for causing “misery” to residents in the Horsefair and regularly misbehaving in the town centre.
The CRASBO was granted by Kidderminster Youth Court following an application by police who presented a statement based on more than 50 incidents involving the boy which have been reported since January 2011.
The court was told the youngster, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had thrown stones at and kicked taxis and other vehicles, spat at and abused members of the public, disrupted activities in public buildings – on one occasion teasing people with learning difficulties.
He had also climbed on to the roofs of buildings, bullied and attacked other youngsters, ridden his bike the wrong way on roads and threatened to shoot someone with a BB gun.
The CRASBO stops him from using threatening, abusive or insulting words of behaviour, or disorderly behaviour in a public place.
He also cannot climb on the roof of any building or associate with another named boy in any public place apart from educational purposes.
The CRASBO was granted after he appeared at the youth court on Wednesday last week (January 23).
He was convicted of assaulting a police officer and a public order offence committed on the same occasion at his home on July 28.
He denied those offences but previously admitted a further charge of criminally damaging a car which he kicked during an altercation in Radford Avenue on June 4 last year.
He was given a 12-month intensive referral order incorporating anger management and victim awareness sessions along with a number of other conditions including a three-month curfew.
He will also be put on a placement to help people with learning difficulties as part of the order. A six-month parenting order was also made against the boy’s mother.
Wyre Forest District Inspector Paul Crowley said: “This boy’s appalling behaviour has been a cause of misery for people living in the Horsefair area and those using facilities such as St George’s Park. He has also regularly caused problems in Kidderminster town centre and has been responsible for many complaints to the police.”
Comments(60)
stourport2012
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12:24pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Respectable
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12:56pm Wed 30 Jan 13
I think Army Boot Camps are a bit over the top , but this whole situation needs a serious review.
Glad to see that the boys Mother is under scrutiny as well. She's the one that allowed this happen.
lovemonkey
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1:25pm Wed 30 Jan 13
I agree with the above comments, but, unfortunately, this badge of honour will possibly make him worse.
Bring back borstal.
walkerno5
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1:48pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Those posters who say that you should know 100% where an 11 year old boy is at all times, or that they're not allowed out alone.
Are you the same people who complain about kids having no life outside of computer games, and no idea of how to get by independently when they reach adulthood?
Because there is a connection.
I used to ride my bike around the streets in the evening quite often when I was 10 or 11, while my parents knew that I was out riding my bike, they wouldn't necessarily have known exactly where I was. Can you point out to me why this was wrong and why you wouldn't allow your offspring to do similar?
And no, I wasn't climbing onto the roofs of buildings. Not that often, anyway.
Respectable
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1:59pm Wed 30 Jan 13
This is about one particular child that is seriously out of control.
It's not about X-Box kids, past generations or differing parenting styles.
GGmommy
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2:01pm Wed 30 Jan 13
I am guessing that your parents and grandparents would leave their front door open whenever they were in or out? Also guessing that you dont do that anymore!
The world has changed and unfortunatley kids that age out on their own are either going to get into trouble or be put in danger.
I do not suggest they should play inside on the PC or be wrapped in cotton wool. I fail to understand parents that go to all the trouble to have children and then chuck them out on the streets not knowing or caring what they are doing or who they are with....recipe for disaster as far as I am concerned, especially when the kids fail to have any respect or consideration for others.
Parents are there to bring up their children in a safe and secure environment equipping them with the skills and respect for everyone and everything around them. Its not hard sometimes and society in general is installing a consequence free environment....but thats another debate! I can only say what I would do in my role as a mother and that is to know where my children are....til they are at least 40 ( :-) )
GGmommy
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2:22pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Yes I agree it is one family mentioned here, but it is not an isolated case, the way we bring up children is changing and unfortunatley its the parents job to make sure they have more influence over their children than friendship groups and antisocial gangs!
Respectable
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2:24pm Wed 30 Jan 13
My point was, we should focus on the offender not the people commenting on it.
Gobby Robby
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4:11pm Wed 30 Jan 13
All this 'things have changed' is a load of poppycock, your kid is in no more danger now than 40 years ago. The only thing that has changed is that English people have turned into a load of **** arsed chickens. Me and my friends used to roam miles and a lot younger than 11. In fact your kids are a lot safer now,outside the inner city, because kids hardly fight anymore
Gobby Robby
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4:19pm Wed 30 Jan 13
walkerno5
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4:46pm Wed 30 Jan 13
"What happened in the "good old days" of riding bikes round the streets in the evening is not comparable to this I am afraid walkerno5!"
I agree absolutely, riding bikes round the streets is fine, some of the things this kid apparently did are not fine.
This, however, is alarming to me;
"Things have moved on and I can guarantee that when my son gets to 11, I will know where he is! A boy who is 11 should not be on the streets by themselves or in a gang, its asking for trouble."
I find this attitude appalling. You should have educated your son to deal with the real world by the time he's eleven and allowed him to engage in and with it. It is not asking for any more trouble than eleven year old boys have faced through time immemorial. What you are doing is stunting his social development.
Even before eleven, I used to go out with my brothers and their friends on our bikes or to the park, this didn't make us a "gang". It's appalling that the language of criminality is applied so readily to any group of young people.
" I am guessing that your parents and grandparents would leave their front door open whenever they were in or out? Also guessing that you dont do that anymore!"
Lacking a time machine, it would be hard to prove, but I am pretty certain that any time since about 1955/1960 ish, that is, the time that people started owning expensive consumer goods and generally being worth robbing, most doors up and down the country would have been locked whenever the occupants were out.
This reminiscence about leaving the doors open is nonsense.
GGmommy
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5:07pm Wed 30 Jan 13
I have my standards and expectations of my children and their behaviour and it doesn't include some of the behaviour that you find acceptable, that's my standards! I had children because I wanted a family and to spend time together, not to throw them out on the streets at every opportunity!
Do you really think the behaviour of this boy is acceptable? If not then look at the reasons why it has happened - would it have escalated to this had his parents kept a tighter grip on his behaviour? I think not, therefore your argument is flawed!
lovemonkey
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5:15pm Wed 30 Jan 13
GlenFiddick
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6:07pm Wed 30 Jan 13
If this lad can can cause so much havoc against humanity ...what chance has a youngish single mother have?
Gobby Robby
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7:03pm Wed 30 Jan 13
He's pointing out the faults in your parenting, which on this occasion i'll have to agree with him on. Locking your kids up until they're old enough to be nannied at the state sponsored private school Holy Trinity will just ensure they become a menace to society later on. Like other mollycoddled kids when let off the leash they become willingly antisocial like Pete Docherty, the Bullingdon Club and numerous bankers.
"would it have escalated to this had his parents kept a tighter grip on his behaviour?"- obviously not, probably wouldn't have with Ian Brady either, yeesh, state the obvious!
Cynical Sid
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7:19pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Gobby ....you are a magnificant plank. Keep it up chump.
GGmommy
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7:39pm Wed 30 Jan 13
I bring my kids up with discipline, manners, thoughtfulness and consideration. They are amazing kids so get over it! Come back in 10 years time and see what they have achieved in your little time machine!
My comments were regarding parenting skills in general. Parents should know where their kids are and what they are up to. This is a kid of 11 we are talking about, not a 16 year old who is old enough and hopefully responsible enough to behave. If their parents cant cope they should get help!
There are no consequences for this sort of behaviour. As a child I would never have behaved in any way that would have let my mom down. The problem now is that some of these children's parents genuinely dont care...therefore, no consequences.
Gobby Robby
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7:41pm Wed 30 Jan 13
FranOb
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7:41pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Cynical Sid
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7:50pm Wed 30 Jan 13
walkerno5
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7:56pm Wed 30 Jan 13
"I think it’s fair to say that this kid’s future is already mapped out"
Yet doesn't want the only public body that can possibly intervene to be involved. Good thinking Sid.
What's your suggestion then, write him off now and put him in prison for life? Or is life too good for him in those holiday camps?
Gobby Robby
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8:10pm Wed 30 Jan 13
"There are no consequences for this sort of behaviour" - err,yes there is, he's been given a crasbo. Don't you read the articles that you comment on? You seem to live in a cossetted environment where you can just go and give his mother a stern talking to and she'll go "OMG how bad of me, i'll be a better parent from now on". In reality, & I don't want to cast aspersions on the mother as we don't know anything about her, but it's highly likely that there's something a lot worse going on then 'parenting skills' judging by the fact that the kid is showing signs of being highly disturbed. Still I doubt whether you'd know about those sort of things in your cossetted world.
If you think that this type of thing is new why don't you read a bit of social history, there have always been feral kids from the ones that killed Jamie Bulger 20 years ago, to street gangs of the 1930's. If you think that every parent 'cared' for their kids in the old days you are even dimmer than I thought :-)
Gobby Robby
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8:49pm Wed 30 Jan 13
GGmommy
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9:07pm Wed 30 Jan 13
stourport2012
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9:19pm Wed 30 Jan 13
stourport2012
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9:53pm Wed 30 Jan 13
GGmommy
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9:56pm Wed 30 Jan 13
This is about that boy, his family, the lack of support and not your little agenda! Sad that you find any forum for your little rants regardless of an obviously tragic line of events for this family
Cynical Sid
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10:06pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Gobby Robby
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10:10pm Wed 30 Jan 13
As for my agenda it has direct relevance, if your campaign to remove money from the pot to pay for the private school fees of HTS parents it will lead to even less money for social services, more problem kids neglected, more juvenile delinquency. It is people like you who are ultimately to blame GGmommy!
Gobby Robby
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10:12pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Gobby Robby
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10:22pm Wed 30 Jan 13
daian76
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1:04am Thu 31 Jan 13
GGmommy
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7:14am Thu 31 Jan 13
What a pompous way of justifying your agenda, no wonder you rant on here, I doubt anyone else will listen.
The system is to blame for allowing families to get into this mess, and news flash it's been going on for a lot longer than the free school debate. Look back at all the failings in social care services taking place even when your precious Labour government were in power.
If you are naive enough to believe this is the fault of parents wanting the best for their kids through one single initiative to improve education standards than you just fester on that. The reality is that the wider system including police, social services and your wonderfully perfect education system have failed this family and all the victims. It's not just lack of funds, it's organisations not communicating with each other, it's about police not having the power to intervene earlier.
Get off your soap box and look at the bigger picture. I just hope now something will change for that family and all the people that have suffered as a result of the kids behaviour,!
gypsyman
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9:13am Thu 31 Jan 13
nikki09
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9:45am Thu 31 Jan 13
Primrose Coley
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10:53am Thu 31 Jan 13
However, this lad sounds to be very damaged. We don't know all the circumstances which led up to his behaviours. His home life may have been affected by a parent/parents suffering with mental health/alcohol or drug related problems, or worse. It certainly doesn't sound to be supportive.
I hope the powers that be, have put in place a long term support programme for this lad. Not necessarily soft options either if he doesn't toe the line. Tough love works too..... Otherwise this is another violent criminal in the future making.
walkerno5
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12:08pm Thu 31 Jan 13
There are plenty of comments above rushing to disclose detail that should not be in the public domain, or to condemn from that position of ignorance.
Shibdrift
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1:03pm Thu 31 Jan 13
Disgraceful behaviour if all as reported, whatever the reasons.
Still, why should we be surprised when there have always been halfwits who would - "hang off bridges gobbing on people, throw stones or worse at cars, we never had any respect for anyone!
Fine example.
Gobby Robby
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1:27pm Thu 31 Jan 13
Respectable
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3:21pm Thu 31 Jan 13
Respectable wrote:And my point is spectacularly proven..
Wouldn't disagree at all.
My point was, we should focus on the offender not the people commenting on it.
GobShite Robby and GSpotMommy dominating another thread with personal insults and another "Smart Arseing" competition.
Meanwhile the subject matter is left flailing in the breeze.
Wish you'd take your ego's and class war somewhere else.
stourport2012
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4:07pm Thu 31 Jan 13
9:13am Thu 31 Jan 13
my god shuld bring the kid to us down our traveler site we would teach him some manners, and his perents
That sounds like a good idea.
stourport2012
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4:34pm Thu 31 Jan 13
I have sympathy for what this child has been through but even with the issues that the child has, his parents should not have let him out on his own to cause all of this upset to so many people.
Gobby Robby
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5:43pm Thu 31 Jan 13
"That sounds like a good idea"
GGmommy
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7:04pm Thu 31 Jan 13
Gobby Robby
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7:18pm Thu 31 Jan 13
Respectable
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7:57pm Thu 31 Jan 13
hhhhhh
GGmommy
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8:00pm Thu 31 Jan 13
emjaypee
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10:12pm Thu 31 Jan 13
Respectable
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7:29am Fri 1 Feb 13
emjaypee wrote:And who made you the boss of free speech and opinion ?
Let the above post be the final word since none of us can comment in the way this person has from bitter experience. Well said anon.
gypsyman
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7:43am Fri 1 Feb 13
Respectable
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9:06am Fri 1 Feb 13
gypsyman wrote:I think your right fella. Looks like it's been removed.
think that may be a fake profile and not realy the brother lol
Guess we'll never know the truth.
walkerno5
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9:40am Fri 1 Feb 13
It's been removed because it's not really fair to put these pieces of information, which are about a real human being, on a website that can follow that person around for the rest of their life.
Removing posts here has also got nothing to do with free speech, it's about protecting a child who already has enough on his plate.
This article should probably not have been opened for comments at all in hindsight, given the natural tendency shown above to rush to judgement despite knowing very little of the circumstances.
emjaypee
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10:11am Fri 1 Feb 13
walkerno5 wrote:Totally agree with walkerno5.
It's nothing to do with it being a fake profile.
It's been removed because it's not really fair to put these pieces of information, which are about a real human being, on a website that can follow that person around for the rest of their life.
Removing posts here has also got nothing to do with free speech, it's about protecting a child who already has enough on his plate.
This article should probably not have been opened for comments at all in hindsight, given the natural tendency shown above to rush to judgement despite knowing very little of the circumstances.
Let the widows who sit knitting at the gallows find another bandwagon.
anonymous2013
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10:22am Fri 1 Feb 13
Respectable
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12:35pm Fri 1 Feb 13
"The CRASBO was granted by Kidderminster Youth Court following an application by police who presented a statement based on more than 50 incidents involving the boy which have been reported since January 2011."
As tragic as this is now appearing to be. Offences that have been deemed to be unreasonable and unacceptable have been committed and the LAW has been used to curtail the lads exploits.
You simply cannot allow society to run riot whether your a victim, millionaire or pauper.
stourport2012
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3:04pm Fri 1 Feb 13
Tamtheman
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7:12pm Fri 1 Feb 13
Tamtheman
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7:24pm Fri 1 Feb 13
comberton hill questions
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3:12pm Sat 2 Feb 13
The fact is this child needs help if this pattern is going to be halted and that is what should be being provided people obviously know who he is and reference made to things that have happened well help my reverse the decline in this childs behaviour instead of just writing him off or putting him in care or giving him a kicking.
GGmommy says...
11:43am Wed 30 Jan 13
Referral order? Anger Management? HE IS 11, how does it get to the stage that an 11 year old needs this? Enforced residential boot camp resided over by Army officers.....learn some discipline and respect!