Story out of Athens, Georgia:
An 11-year-old Athens girl was arrested for bringing to school a knife she said was needed to fend off clowns.
The arrest occurred Friday at Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle School, amid recent news reports about unsubstantiated claims that clowns have been terrorizing children in Georgia and other states.
The girl was taken by the principal to the front office where she was questioned by a police officer.
“She said that the reason she had the knife was for protection for her and her family because she had heard the stories about clowns jumping out of the woods and attacking children,” the officer wrote in an Athens-Clarke County police report.
According to the report, police contacted an official with the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice who instructed them to release the girl to her mother on a charge of possession of a weapon on school grounds.
The knife incident at the middle school in Athens occurred the same day Athens Banner-Herald reported local police were investigating a report that some children were chased by a group of clowns as they were leaving the East Athens Community Center. Cont.
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