Kentucky high school teens charged with

Three Kentucky teenagers have been charged with terroristic threatening after taking part in a TikTok problem, Oldham County Police mentioned in a information assertion on Friday.

Investigators mentioned that three separate incidents at Oldham County Excessive Faculty on Aug. 14, 15, and 17 have been associated to the TikTok problem, which inspires college students to document a video of themselves telling a trainer there was a bomb or gun of their backpack as a “joke.”

Two 15-year-olds have been charged with terroristic threatening within the second diploma, police mentioned, and one 15-year-old was charged with terroristic threatening within the third diploma. As a result of the kids are minors, their names and any additional figuring out particulars weren’t launched by the police. 

Oldham County Colleges despatched out a warning the earlier week saying in a letter to households college students will face “critical penalties,” in the event that they take part within the TikTok problem, reported Louisville CBS affiliate WLKY.

Authorities have warned mother and father and youngsters about quite a few TikTok challenges previously years, together with ones during which chewing gum contained the identical ingredient as pepper spray, pranksters who kick in doorways, and automobile thefts. 

In current months lawmakers, faculty districts, states, and the Federal authorities have reacted by banning or limiting TikTok. In April Montana grew to become the primary state to ban the app.

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