The unidentified girl had intended for the messages to result in school closures, police said.
“These are very serious offenses,” said Berks County District Attorney John Adams. “Our educational system can not tolerate the receipt of these types of threats. This is a disruption to the schools.”
Adams added, “We will not tolerate young people making threats towards schools.”
She is currently being held in a juvenile detention center, and has since been charged with the following:
- terroristic threats with the intent to terrorize another;
- terroristic threats with intent to cause evacuation of a building, place of assembly or facility of public transportation;
- terroristic threats with intent to cause serious public inconvenience or cause terror;
- criminal use of a communications facility;
- harassment;
- disorderly conduct engage in fighting or threatening, or in violent tumultuous behavior;
- and false alarms to agencies of public safety.
The recent arrests comes amid a spate of threatening clown sightings across the globe. What began in the Carolinas in late August has now made its way to Australia, Canada, and Britain.
