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Mesa victim speaks out about attack
09:36 PM Mountain Standard Time on Wednesday, April 4, 2007
For the first time tonight a Mesa girl speaks out after she said she was attacked by her classmate at knife point.
The same boy facing terrorism charges is accused of plotting to take his classmates hostage.
The county prosecutor has charged Brent Clark, 14, as an adult with terrorism.
They believe he might have tried to pull off a Columbine style attack at his school, but before that he's accused of attacking one of his classmates and she might have stopped a bigger attack from happening at Powell Junior High in Mesa.
A 7th grade girl walks home alone and when she gets to her apartment complex she said she was attacked by a classmate with a pocketknife.
"He said he was going to kill me if I say anything," said the girl who didn’t want to be identified.
The boy let her go and she ran home and called police.
But since that day two weeks ago she's been getting sick, loosing weight and this week didn't go to school.
She claims it’s just something she ate, but her mom thinks its something else, a bad case of nerves.
The accused attacker was a classmate. Clark and the girl had 7th hour Spanish together.
When police searched his home they said they found him wearing camouflage with a backpack full of weapons.
Apparently ready to take his class hostage.
As for girl who was attacked, she believes the boy might have done it, but she doesn't feel like a hero.
She just wants her old life back.
The lawyer for Clark said charging him with terrorism goes way too far.
Something that could ruin his life instead of teach him a lesson. He calls it politicking by the prosecutor’s office.
The girl who was attacked and her mother are expecting to be called to testify in court against him.
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