This Is Child Abuse

After a school briefly suspended a 13 year-old boy for twirling a pencil and “making gun motions” with it, New Jersey’s Department of Child Torture And Familial Disenfranchisement Children and Family Services intervened and subjected the boy to mental exams and psych testing. Great job, anti-gun nuts, for infusing society with your bitter nectar of ignorant hysteria. This is the result:

In April, The Libertarian Republic reported on the case of Ethan Chaplin – a 7th grader who was suspended from school, required to submit a blood sample, and made to undergo a battery of psychological tests because a classmate said that he had twirled a pencil “like a gun.”

Though the school backed off in the face of media scrutiny, the faceless, unaccountable bureaucrats at the Department of Children and Families did not.

Ethan’s father, Michael Chaplin, got on the Department’s bad side when he initially refused to take his son to be physically and psychologically tested. Michael relented after the Department sent the family an ominous letter labeling Michael’s noncompliance “an incident of abuse or neglect.”

A subsequent letter from the Department said that no problems were identified during the evaluation – but demanded that Ethan return for even more tests.

If Michael does not return his son to the Department, the letter threatened, officials will seize Ethan and put him up for adoption.

Should you want to civilly stick up for the kid, here’s the school’s contact page. The superintendent sounds like a peach.

“I don’t want to be the one who failed to act when there were warning signs being demonstrated or displayed,” Maranzano told the site.

Ethan Chaplin was asked to come back to school on Friday, according to his father, Michael Chaplin.

Michael Chaplin told NJ.com he thought the superintendent’s comments to the Huffington Post were “disturbing” and likened Ethan to the Sandy Hook shooter.