Today the prosecutors referred to 18 separate disciplinary incidents form the teenager’s two schools.
According to News 27 this afternoon, prosecutors said they had not made the decision to file charges against the 14-year-old African American boy, who is only being identified as Edwin.
The boy was not at the hearing in Orange County when the prosecutor, Terry Mills said that “Three of (the incidents were) of a sexual nature.”
The teen’s defense attorney Anita Shorter disputed the amount of sexual nature charges held within the school system.
What has happened?
The judge lifted a home confinement punishment that was ordered when the teen attended court for the first time.
Edwin was arrested on the June 10 at the Burlington Coat Factory on West Colonial Drive.
He is accused of trying to abduct a 3-year-old girl. The stores surveillance video shows the teen talking with the girl, walking her out of the store and returning with her hand in hand. He is met by her mother and store security.
The mother decided to press charges and Edwin was placed under house arrest. The teen and his lawyer continue to claim he is innocent.
The NAACP are closely monitoring the ongoing investigation.
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