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Old 04-29-2005, 07:04 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Girl Sticks Schoolmates With Used Needle

24 minutes ago

PHILADELPHIA - A third-grader stuck 19 schoolmates with her mother's diabetes blood-testing needle this week, and one pricked students tested positive for HIV on a preliminary test, officials said.

Health officials said the virus could not have been contracted from the needle stick, and they noted that preliminary tests can yield false positives. The risk to students who were stuck after the possibly infected child depends on factors including the depth of the stick, health officials said.

The 8-year-old stuck her Taylor Elementary schoolmates Wednesday at the school's breakfast, at lunch and in the classroom, using a needle that was about one-third of an inch long, on the end of a device that looks like a pen, school officials said. They were unsure why the girl did it.

She was suspended and will probably be moved to another school, said Paul Vallas, the school district's chief executive.

Most of the students involved were taken to a hospital for testing and treatment, school officials said.

According to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, the risk of HIV infection after a needle stick is low, with an average of one in 300 cases leading to infection.
Wow, just wow. I can't imagine an eight year old potentially being given an uncurable disease by another student. I can't imagine what the parents must be thinking right now. Granted we dont have all the information yet, but how did the girl manage to stick 19 kids before being caught!
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Old 04-29-2005, 07:20 AM   #2 (permalink)
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It's a little pin-prick. I doubt any of the kids realised what was going on, really. But still, holy crap!
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Old 04-29-2005, 07:20 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I cannot imagine what is going thru the minds of thost 19 sets of parents...I'm sure the chances of an infection are nil, but what if the 3rd kid who got stuck, had HIV, it's not outside the realm of possibility, then the other 16 kids now are exposed to it...
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Old 04-29-2005, 07:33 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Wow. I cannot even imagine what is going through the minds of those parents. I would be so scared and upset, and angry and mad, etc.
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Old 04-29-2005, 07:57 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Wow - odd. I can't imagine what an 8 yr old would be thinking about this and why she'd do it. Probably simply for attention.

One more reason I'M homeschooling.
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Old 04-29-2005, 08:13 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Youch, thems the breaks. Hopefully the one positive test was a fluke, or else they need to do more looking (where did the infection come from, who else has HIV?). As for the child, I am sure there was very little thought involved. She probably had not considered the danger of disease, but still... thats a pretty mean thing to do even if perfectly safe.
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Old 04-29-2005, 08:14 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Wow - odd. I can't imagine what an 8 yr old would be thinking about this and why she'd do it. Probably simply for attention.

One more reason I'M homeschooling.
One more reason I'm not having kids.
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Old 04-29-2005, 08:30 AM   #8 (permalink)
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I'm reluctant to jump to conclusions, so I have to just wonder how she got ahold of her mother's testing supplies. Used testing sticks are a biohazard, and there are very specific methods you're supposed to use for disposal. No 8-year-old should ever be anywhere near a diabetics supplies, used or not.

But we shouldn't be surprised. We're living in a time of 1st graders bringing a gun to school to kill a classmate.

I would also like to add that, despite the above bit of cynicism, school is one of the safest places for a child to be in the US, and incidents like this make the news because they are rare.
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Old 04-29-2005, 08:56 AM   #9 (permalink)
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I'm reluctant to jump to conclusions, so I have to just wonder how she got ahold of her mother's testing supplies. Used testing sticks are a biohazard, and there are very specific methods you're supposed to use for disposal. No 8-year-old should ever be anywhere near a diabetics supplies, used or not.
I think it is reasonable to jump to the conclusion that the child did not know the depth of the danger with what she was doing, and the the parent did not intend for the child to get into her stuff. There are plenty of things that are "biohazards" that are used every day, and we should not be really surprised that kids sometimes get into places they should not be.

This situation was very dangerous and could be severely damaging, but biological waste occurs. Heck, have you ever seen a kid alone with a Sharpie?
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Old 04-29-2005, 11:19 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Everything has the potential for danger if used incorrectly, even certain toys. The fact that the child used it as a weapon is not uncommon either. I've seen a lot of kids using toys as weapons (and I would imagine she thought the needle to be a weapon). The only thing I don't understand is how she managed to do it so much (as crazybill already said).
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Old 04-29-2005, 11:42 AM   #11 (permalink)
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frightening... but without further information its hard to form a real understanding.

I am baffled that the authorities would make public the results of a HIV test on one of the children also.

From what I know, that chances of re-infection are very low... but of course it was be terrible for all the families and childen (insofar as they understand) involved. Questions also need to be asked about how a 8 year old gets hold of diabetes testing equipment (I know what these pens look like, my mom is diabetic).. certainly I would investihgating if this girl should be taken into care, not just moved to a different school.
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Old 04-29-2005, 12:06 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Old 04-29-2005, 01:02 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Of course the hows and the whys of this need to be looked into, but I can't see why some people would use this as a reason/excuse to home school their kids. A point for another thread perhaps, but the world won't get any nicer while people lock their kids away from it for a few years.
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Old 04-29-2005, 01:15 PM   #14 (permalink)
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I am baffled that the authorities would make public the results of a HIV test on one of the children also.
If they revealed that only one returned a positive it is likely that they revealed the results from them all, it is just that the others were all negative. Privacy is good to preserve but not if it causes a danger to others and this would be a case where hiding a positive test could be deadly.
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Old 04-29-2005, 03:20 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Not that surprising why she might do it. When my mom was really young she found a razor blade and sliced up her sister saying "Oooh pretty red" while she did it thinking she was painting. (Her sister let her do it for a couple minutes before she noticed any pain)
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Old 04-29-2005, 05:42 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Bad parenting: HOw did the kid get a hold of her mom's needle? She obviously got the idea of sicking her classmates by watching her mom stick herself.

The mom should have been extra careful especially since she has AIDS or HIV positive...
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Old 04-29-2005, 06:56 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Bad parenting: HOw did the kid get a hold of her mom's needle? She obviously got the idea of sicking her classmates by watching her mom stick herself.

The mom should have been extra careful especially since she has AIDS or HIV positive...
Umm, where did you get the idea that the mother had HIV?
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Old 04-29-2005, 09:47 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Umm, where did you get the idea that the mother had HIV?
I had the same question. I also find myself much less eager to accuse others of "bad parenting," now that I have seen how fast an 8-year-old can get into something he/she isn't supposed to.
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Old 04-29-2005, 10:32 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Umm, where did you get the idea that the mother had HIV?
Hmmm.... I must have read it wrong. I thought the mom had HIV and was a diabetic - then the girl took her needle and stuck other kids with it so on and so forth. So you can see where my thought process would lead.

So, where did the HIV come from?
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Old 05-01-2005, 04:40 PM   #20 (permalink)
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I'm wondering if this girl just walked around stabbing kids, or if they were 'playing' with it, pretending to test their blood? I'mm assuming it wasn't an attack, because after one shrill scream, the teachers would have aprehended that needle fast. I get the impression that nothing happened until a kid inadvertantly mentioned to their parents what happened.
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Old 05-01-2005, 08:59 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Those things look like a pen with a botton on it, you pull the top out to cock it and press the button to engage the needle which comes out about a 64th of an inch and goes right back in, quite fun to play with...

i had an experience close to this back in 7th grade in 97.

a friend left hers at my house, so i took it to school to return it to her, where some dumb fuck pulled it out of my binder and poked the kid next to him a few times and the kid across the way...I got in trouble for it, it was a ridiculous mess...and eventually (among many other cuases) led to my expullsion,
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Old 05-01-2005, 09:26 PM   #22 (permalink)
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For this child, my bet is that the actions taken was a cry for help.
For many, attention is still attention whether it's positive or negative.

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Old 05-01-2005, 09:32 PM   #23 (permalink)
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For this child, my bet is that the actions taken was a cry for help.
For many, attention is still attention whether it's positive or negative.

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A cry for help? Why can't a kid put thumbtacks in a chair just because they want to see people jump, rather than "calling out for attention"?
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Old 05-01-2005, 09:40 PM   #24 (permalink)
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A cry for help? Why can't a kid put thumbtacks in a chair just because they want to see people jump, rather than "calling out for attention"?

Wanting to see a reaction from another human being and being the cause of said reaction, wanting people to know you are the cause.

How more simple can that get. A call for attention.
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Old 05-02-2005, 11:46 AM   #25 (permalink)
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I had the same question. I also find myself much less eager to accuse others of "bad parenting," now that I have seen how fast an 8-year-old can get into something he/she isn't supposed to.
I'm not that surprised it happened. I used to open the "child-proof" bottles just to prove I could, and I have a harder time opening them now than I did when I was 9.
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Old 05-05-2005, 09:36 AM   #26 (permalink)
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I would beat that little girls ass. And you could throw such a guilt trip on her later in life. "carol ann, why did have to infect me with HIV?" HA.
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Old 05-05-2005, 10:40 AM   #27 (permalink)
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She is 8, old enough to understand right and wrong, throw the book at her if she has actually infected someone otherwise just 19 charges of assault with a deadly weapon.

/me did report assaults at school, stuff got done, just because its at school or the kid is too stupid to understand does not give them the right to ignore the law. As a note I never misbehaved at school either, right and wrong were known from a very young age.
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Old 05-05-2005, 10:56 AM   #28 (permalink)
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She is 8, old enough to understand right and wrong, throw the book at her if she has actually infected someone otherwise just 19 charges of assault with a deadly weapon.
That may not be neccessarily true. Does anyone remember watching the episode of E.R. wherein two young males were involved in a shootout over a pair of shoes? The kid who shot his friend (at the end of the episode) really and truly could not tell right from wrong; he really didn't know what the consequences were, and he did not know that his friend actually died because of what he did (although IIRC he was told later in the episode).

It all comes down to your upbringing and your environment. This girl may not have known the consequences of her actions.
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Old 05-05-2005, 11:24 AM   #29 (permalink)
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Some of you people must have never seen one of these testing needles... you make it out like she went on a bloody knife rampage.

Hell, I bet the other kids were letting her do it.
Each taking their turn to see what it feels like.

And I really doubt the HIV claim, just something to heat up the story.
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Old 05-05-2005, 11:42 AM   #30 (permalink)
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I'm calling BULLSHIT on this one. What HIV test can you give that detects it the same day you get infected?
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Old 05-07-2005, 08:29 AM   #31 (permalink)
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I'm calling BULLSHIT on this one. What HIV test can you give that detects it the same day you get infected?
Obviously the child was previously infected, however, I would imagine there is some concern that those chioldren pricked after the HIV+ child may now become infected.

On another note, I don't recall seeing any updates on this storyin the news. Has it dropped out of existance? Can anyone fill me in.
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Old 05-07-2005, 09:13 AM   #32 (permalink)
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Obviously the child was previously infected, however, I would imagine there is some concern that those chioldren pricked after the HIV+ child may now become infected.
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...noted that preliminary tests can yield false positives.
In answer to clavus, the kind of test that gives results the same day as infection are probably inaccurate. If I recall correctly tests for HIV are done several times over in order to make what might be a 98% correct test yield a highly accurate result. Such a quick test probably errs on the side of caution and gives a false positive now and then, much more often than it will give a false negative.

It is not obvious that any of the children are infected as the only source of information was published on the same day of the incident, which is too soon to get any accurate test results. I would predict that none of the children had HIV after all the tests came in, and so there was nothing worthy of being reported.
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Old 05-07-2005, 09:34 AM   #33 (permalink)
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I'm reluctant to jump to conclusions, so I have to just wonder how she got ahold of her mother's testing supplies. Used testing sticks are a biohazard, and there are very specific methods you're supposed to use for disposal. No 8-year-old should ever be anywhere near a diabetics supplies, used or not.

My thoughts exactly, the kid is eight, shes curious. But why would it be her fault when a needle shouldn't be laying around for her to bring to class.
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