Nationwide — The household of Peter Brown, a 17-year-old African American teen from Clute, Texas, is outraged after their son was arrested and charged as an grownup for allegedly attacking a instructor at his particular wants faculty. His mother and father declare Peter, who has a psychological incapacity, doesn’t perceive the severity of the scenario.Peter, a pupil at Brazosport Impartial Faculty District (ISD), was arrested at school final Thursday and brought to Brazoria County Jail. He now faces a felony cost for assaulting a public servant. His bail was set at $100,000.
His mother and father, Brandon and his spouse, say Peter has the psychological capability of a 12 or 13-year-old and can’t grasp the authorized course of he’s now caught in.
“He’s 17 with a low IQ, and a incapacity not figuring out what sort of bother he’s in, not figuring out the place he’s at, not figuring out what the decide was telling him,” his involved father, Brandon informed ABC 13.
As a result of his situation, Peter hasn’t been capable of clarify what occurred, leaving his household confused and determined for solutions. Authorities, nevertheless, say they’ll’t share particulars with the mother and father as a result of Peter is legally thought-about an grownup.
“It’s scary for all events concerned,” stated Brandon. “It’s scary for him, and I do know it was scary for the instructor.”
Whereas the household agrees that their son’s actions might have penalties, they consider charging his son as an grownup is simply too excessive.
“He’s not a prison in any respect. He don’t know the very first thing about doing something prison,” Brandon defined. “He simply he simply has that psychological downside and the docs all the time stated that he’s going to have violent tendencies. We’ve been engaged on that with him for all of his life.”
The Browns consider Peter was having a psychological well being disaster when the incident occurred. They level out that the college has a disaster prevention group, nevertheless it’s unclear in the event that they had been referred to as in.
Peter has had frequent points at college and has been admitted to psychological well being services each few months. Nonetheless, his household says jail is just not the place for him.
“He must be dwelling together with his household. He must be 24 hours taken care of. He’s sitting in there scared, he’s confused,” Brandon stated.
