Philadelphia schoolgirl punished, called 'murderer' for having gun-shaped piece of PAPER...just keeps getting better and better

A mother is furious with her daughter's school after she was punished for taking a 'gun' made out of paper to school.

Dianna Kelly, of south Philadelphia, says staff at D.Newlin Fell School over-reacted when fifth-grader Melody Valentin was noticed taking it out of her pocket by another pupil.

She was scolded in front of the class, threatened with the police being called and even searched with other children watching the whole time, reported Fox 29.

Melody was given the folded piece of paper by her grandfather the day before and claims she only got it out to throw away as she had forgotten it was in her pocket.

A boy saw the crudely-folded piece of paper and called staff.

'He yelled at me and said I shouldn't have brought the gun to school and I kept telling him it was a paper gun but he wouldn't listen,' Melody said.

She added that her classmates had taunted her, calling her a 'murderer'.

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