14 DAY TRIAL // A 16-year-old student was arrested after he published a clip on YouTube, asking other members of the online video sharing service to kill his math teacher. The Staten Island boy encouraged users to shoot the teacher in the neck and even posted her name and the home address. The main reason? He failed a test and he decided to take his revenge by asking other YouTubers to shoot the teacher. The police arrested the student and keep him a night in the jail, Matthew Pacelli facing a sentence of up to one year in prison. His mother had to pay $1.500 as a bail but the boy is still investigated for aggravated harassment.
"He's very sorry about this whole thing, but that's no admission of guilt. He means the teacher no harm," said Robert DuPont, his attorney according to WCBS-TV. "He would write suicidal notes himself saying that he wants to kill everybody, kill himself, kill the world and everything. He was like crazy in the head," Port Richmond student Michelle Mafaro told CBS 2, the same source reported.
This is not the first case when somebody gets arrested after some clips are posted on YouTube. In the past, several students were charged after the police found multiple videos on the Google video service showing them assaulting other kids. The authorities were also trying to resolve important cases using the Google tool and posted some surveillance clips on YouTube to require users' help. After the members offered important information about the suspects, the authorities arrested them and resolved the cases. As I said, YouTube is more and more used with a different goal than the one presented by Google, most users trying to promote their stories using the online video sharing service.