Boy, 14, arrested after making threats with large knife at school
A 14-YEAR-OLD boy has been charged with threatening fellow students with a knife during class at a Sydney high school.
The boy took a large kitchen knife to school and made threats against three other 14-year-old boys at a Cherrybrook high school yesterday morning, police alleged.
He was arrested and charged with carrying a knife visible in a school and three counts of common assault.
"The boy is alleged to have produced the knife during a morning class and made threats before the matter was reported to teachers," police said.
"No one was injured during the incident."
The teenager was granted conditional bail to appear at Parramatta Children's Court on March 9.
His arrest followed a string of alarming similar incidents across NSW and Queensland in recent days.
In a crime that shocked the country, 12-year-old student Elliott Fletcher died after being stabbed at Brisbane's St Patrick's College on Monday.
A 13-year-old fellow student has since been charged with murder.
That same day, Huong Nguyen was stabbed, allegedly by another mother, while waiting outside Sefton Infants School in Sydney's south-west.
On Tuesday, an 11-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly confronting a fellow Claremont Meadows Public School student with a knife.
NSW Education Minister Verity Firth yesterday tried to reassure parents by denying there was a surge in violent crimes in schools.
"Please keep it in perspective - schools are still probably the safest place in the community for our kids to be," Ms Firth said.
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