The young boy was questioned by Secret Service for his Facebook posting.
Dana Rebik
Q13 FOX News
6:36 p.m. PDT, May 16, 2011
TACOMA— A Tacoma seventh grader faced federal interrogation at school for what he posted on his Facebook page. His mom said it all happened without her knowledge or permission.
Timi Robertson said she had just finished lunch with a friend Friday when she got a phone call from her son's school.
"I answered it, and it's the school security guard who's giving me a heads up that the Secret Service is here with the Tacoma Police Department and they have Vito and they're talking to him," Robertson said.
After Osama bin Laden was killed, 13-year-old Vito LaPinta posted an update to his Facebook status that got the Feds attention.
"I was saying how Osama was dead and for Obama to be careful because there could be suicide bombers," says LaPinta.
A week later, while Vito was in his fourth period class, he was called in to the principal's office.
"A man walked in with a suit and glasses and he said he was part of the Secret Service," LaPinta said. "He told me it was because of a post I made that indicated I was a threat toward the President." FULL STORY
Their comments page isn't working. It's pretty interesting that they are so agitated about the FBI doing this, while CPS does it routinely and nobody thinks a thing of it. I guess it's because when it's CPS, it's "In the child's best interest". Yeah.
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