Boy pleads guilty to bringing knife to Naperville school

An 11-year-old boy, who brought a knife to Naperville's Hill Middle School last spring, pleaded guilty Monday in juvenile court to a misdemeanor count of aggravated assault.

Prosecutors said the boy, who is not a student at Hill, flashed a knife at another boy with whom he got into a fight around 8 a.m. April 8.

Witnesses told police they saw a knife in the boy's possession at the school at 1836 Brookdale Road, which led to him being charged by the DuPage County state's attorney's office with assault and aggravated assault.

The knife was never recovered.

He now faces up to 30 days in the youth detention home and up to 24 months of probation when Judge Blanche Hill Fawell sentences him on March 14.

School officials came under fire in May, more than a month after the event, when they sent an email to parents and mentioned a "rumor" that a knife had been brought to the school.

"I am aware there are rumors circulating of an alleged knife being brought to school," reads the email message sent to parents from Hill Principal Mike Dutdut and Brookdale Principal Mary Howicz in mid-May. "School administrators became aware of allegations that a student brought a weapon to school and immediately contacted the Naperville police. No weapon was found."