Orthodox 16-year-old arrested in Long Island for bomb threat
School says it won't press charges against Jewish teen for his threatening Facebook post
An artist's rendition of Mesivta Ateres Yaakov campus (photo credit: Mesivta Ateres Yaakov/Facebook)
A 16-year old Long Island high school student has been arrested for threatening to bomb his Nassau County school in a Facebook post, the New York Post reported on Tuesday.
The student, an Orthodox Jew who reportedly attends the all-male Mesivta Ateres Yaakov school in Lawrence, New York, was charged with making a terrorist threat, which is a felony.
The police said that the teen “had some personal problems” but that the incident had “nothing to do” with the Monday bombing at the Boston Marathon.
Despite the threat, a rabbi at the school told the Post that the school wouldn’t press charges. “We still care about him. We actually said a prayer for him today,” assistant principal Yossi Bennett said.
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