The stepfather of the teen accused in was arrested on drug and firearm charges, according to police.
Andrew E. Piper of the 8500 block of Bradshaw Road in Kingsville was charged with marijuana possession and illegal firearm possession. He is currently free on $500,000 bond. A preliminary hearing in the case is scheduled for Dec. 3.
Piper was arrested Monday during a police search of the family's Kingsville home that was related to the shooting earlier that day. Piper is not charged in connection to the shooting allegedly carried out by his stepson, 15-year-old Robert Wayne Gladden Jr. Police said the weapon that was used in the school incident came from the Middle River home where Gladden's father lives.
Police say Gladden, Piper's stepson, entered the Perry Hall High cafeteria and shot one 17-year-old student in the back before being subdued by school staff. He is charged with attempted first-degree murder and first-degree assault and is currently being held without bail at the Baltimore County Detention Center.
Patch Associate Regional Editor Bryan P. Sears contributed to this article.
The original version of this article misstated Piper's bond.
Having kids should be a privledge, not a right, same as driving. You have to take tests to make sure you can be trusted on the road. When you adopt a child, you go through an interview process to make sure you are capable parents, but when it comes to people having kids, oh, it's just "free will". BS, people should have to prove that they are capable of raising a child before they are allowed to legally have them. You want less criminals in the world? Start setting guidelines for having children and stop letting criminals and psychopaths have kids. Why does no one have anything to say about that? People are fine with this?
Also, to B, agree. This kid was bullied, no doubt about it both at home by his family and at school. Kids don't just "do" this kind of stuff for no reason. People don't have that ability to "snap" unless trauma set them up for it earlier in life. I'm sorry, I know it's not popular opinion, but having kids should be a privilege, not a right that any 13 year old can do. You have bad quality parents raising kids and what do you get? Bad quality children and bad quality adults. Simple little equation.
The price of freedom? If that price is increased crime, child abuse producing violent criminals and people like you endorsing 13 year old GIRLS, not women, GIRLS, CHILDREN having children because once in a blue moon, it works out while the rest of the time, we have criminals, rapists, murderers, burglars, child molesters and violent crime, then that price is too high. It's insane thinking, INSANE! The price we pay? Would you be saying that if Gladden shot one of your children too? "Oh well, that's the price we pay for freedom." I bet you wouldn't, now would you? Child abuse stats speak for themselves and the resulting conditions from that abuse do as well. 84% of people in prison as of a few years ago were victims of child abuse. Most abuse deaths are kids under 4 years old. How old you think those parents were?
From the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychology: "Babies born in the U.S. to teenage mothers are at risk for long-term problems in many major areas of life, including school failure, poverty, and physical or mental illness. The teenage mothers themselves are also at risk for these problems." "Babies born to teenagers are at risk for neglect and abuse because their young mothers are uncertain about their roles and may be frustrated by the constant demands of caretaking." ................ "Some teenage girls drop out of school to have their babies and don't return. In this way, pregnant teens lose the opportunity to learn skills necessary for employment and self-survival as adults." A 2012 article! You're thinking is completely irrational on this topic, COMPLETELY.
As for you claiming it being "immaterial" if if was your child that was shot, I guess that answers my question. You wouldn't be shrugging it off as a "price of freedom", no good parent would. We don't let victims of crimes determine laws? Well, why do we have speed cameras popping up all over the place since that old lady was killed on Seven Courts? God, there are many examples of victims determining laws even if only a single occurrence is present! However, using your (false) analogy, we should not let exceptions determine the rules either. Endorsement of teenagers throwing away their childhood, education and once-in-a-lifetime experience of being a child by having children is insanity and proven to cause a hell of a lot of social problems within these groups of people. It's proven fact, you can think whatever you want, that's the price we pay for freedom, I guess. Ignore the facts and just make up your own instead.
It depends how bad Daniel's down syndrome is. I'm sure there are ways to determine that, but I have a hard time comparing someone who was born with down syndrome to a criminal family. Daniel isn't a criminal nor does he even seem like he was known as a bad person, so it would depend on how severe his disability is considering the nature of down syndrome. It's certainly not impossible, that's for sure. For Gladden? The next step is forcing them into therapy and getting treatment for their problems until their condition is satisfactory enough that the committee can say "Ok, they are now capable of raising kids." If they refuse that treatment, then, if they do have a child anyway, it should immediately be put up for adoption to go to a better family. Why shouldn't people have to qualify to be parents? We're talking about children here, child abuse and the increased likelihood that they will become abusers and criminals as adults or teenagers. You're saying "Ahh, let them do what they want, we'll deal with the casualties later." Why even have people get a license to drive a car too? If a 13 year old wants to drive over to a friend's house, just let him jump in the car and go. Free country and all.
There is so much evidence these days of all the things I've talked about both here and in my child abuse blog. The evidence is there, it's there, but we're saying as a society that it's not a big deal? We have free will? An alcoholic doesn't have free will because he has a disease called "addiction" which you need treatment to overcome. The same kind of damage is caused by child abuse. What about the collateral damage of teens having kids? The rates of child abuse and the damage done to the mother especially since I doubt many 13 year old boys want anything to do with a child. Hell, plenty of 20-30 year old men make children they want nothing to do with. Why can't we try to do something about this in a proactive way? Kids are being damaged and killed every day from child abuse and more and more teens are losing their youth because they get pregnant and drop out of school and hardly even know what they're doing in most cases based on reports and the evidence from these kinds of things. There is something very wrong with this picture. I want kids to have better lives and better parents. Child abuse needs to be stopped.
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