An 11-year-old Florida girl might be facing criminal charges for cutting a peach at school with a childproof knife, according to reports.

Ronald Souto’s daughter, an honour roll student at Silver Trail Middle School in Pembroke Pines, Fla., used the knife at lunch so she could share the fruit with her friend, according to news channel WPLG.

That’s when a school official asked her to leave the lunch area and consequently suspended her for six days.

"This is a set of a spoon, fork and knife for toddlers -- one year old," her mother, Andrea Souto told the news channel. "It is made for children to learn how to eat properly. She's used it since she was baby."

The school district said the girl violated the county's weapon policy meanwhile the Pembroke Pines Police Department have turned over their investigation to the State's Attorney's Office. It is unclear if prosecutors will file charges, according to WPLG, but the girl's family is furious and has hired an attorney.

"She's afraid now of the educators. She's afraid of people at school. They need to change the system," Ronald Souto told WPLG adding, "There's no one there trying to educate and to be reasonable to say, 'Let's work this out.’”

The school district spokesperson couldn’t give specific details to media citing "student privacy," but said, "The school followed district policy regarding this incident and continues to work with the student and parents involved. It is the district's priority to maintain safe and secure campuses for students and staff at all times."

The family’s lawyer says the school board needs to do more to ensure incidents like this don’t happen again.

"It is tragic that a school that this little girl loves sees fit to prosecute and suspend her -- the epitome of a model and honour roll student -- for using a child-proof utensil that could never be construed in any form as a weapon in order to share part of her lunch with a fellow classmate” lawyer Larry Meltzer told WPLG.

According to the Daily Caller, there has been an increase in incidents where U.S. schools react harshly to "weapons" due to zero-tolerance policies.

One of the most head scratching stories is the now infamous “Pop Tart” case. In March of 2013, a 7-year-old Maryland boy was suspended from school for two days because he shaped his pastry like a gun and pointed it at nearby kids saying, “Look — I made a gun!”