09:18 PM EST on Wednesday, November 16, 2005

By GLENN COUNTS / 6NEWS

6NEWS

Parents, students and teachers returned to Bible Baptist Christian school Wednesday after the arrest of two students who are accused of planning to murder students and teachers.

6NEWS has uncovered new information in a story about two teenagers accused of plotting to murder students and teachers at their school.

Church officials told 6NEWS that the students were expelled at the beginning of the last school year. Sources said the teens were on a field trip to Bob Jones University in Greenville South Carolina where they allegedly stole an item from the bookstore.

The item was returned after their classmates reported the incident. Certainly that's a minor mistake in comparison to what the teens are facing now.

In the 29 year history of Bible Baptist School there has never been a week like this one.

"It has been a distraction," a student said.

More than 130 children attend the school. Two of them, a couple of 15-year-olds are in juvenile detention accused of plotting the murders of teachers and students.

The case was a shock and has a lot of parents at this small school questioning what went wrong.

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"Anything is possible. Anything is possible. I don’t worry you just try and do the best you can," said parent Jamie Swanson.

"Children are exposed to everything else that anyone else in society is exposed to, as a result it’s easy to get into trouble and hard to get out," said attorney Phillip Penn.

Penn is an attorney with the Children’s Law Center. He has worked in the juvenile justice system for many years. Even though the teens face serious charges, he doesn’t think they will be tried as adults.

“My guess is that it is not one of those that they want to transfer unless something comes up," Penn said.

Ron Allen, the pastor at Bible Baptist, hopes that the teens get a second chance.

"I'd hate to see them endure some very heavy significant circumstances and consequences that would have a huge impact on the rest of their lives," Allen said.

If the teens stay in the juvenile justice system, they could be sent to training school until they are 19-years-old.

There is no word on if the district attorney intends to try the teens as adults. Their names have not been released because they are juveniles. They are charged with conspiracy to commit murder, which is a felony in the juvenile court system.