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May 18, 2011

Secret Service Interrogates Seventh Grader Without Parents’ Consent 
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And in Tacoma Washington, school officials have acknowledged Secret
Service agents recently interrogated a seventh grader during school
without notifying the boy's mother. 13-year-old Vito La Pinta was
questioned after he wrote a Facebook message expressing concern that
suicide bombers would target President Obama following the death of
Osama Bin Laden. The boy described what happened in an interview with TV
channel Q13 in Seattle.

Vito La Pinta, seventh grader: "A man walked in with a suit and glasses
and he said that he was part of the Secret Service and he told me it was
because of a post that I made and it indicated as a threat towards the
president.”

Vito's mother Timi Robertson expressed outrage over the incident.

Timi Robertson, La Pinta’s mother: “I just about lost it. My son, my
13 year-old son, who is a minor, who is supposed to be safe and secure
in his classroom at school is being interrogated without my knowledge or
consent privately by the secret service.”



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