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Posted By TechnologyExpert 1 year, 7 months ago in Science & TechnologyThe six teenage girls accused of beating a classmate and filming the attack for the Internet made their first court appearance on Friday, looking down and occasionally covering their faces with their hands and hair to avoid a gaggle of cameras.
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Rihana3651 year, 7 months ago
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The latest research on female gangs and female arrest statistics indicate a rise not only in violent offenses but also in the willingness of law enforcement to view women as violent offenders. This shift in attitude by law enforcement within the last decade is a long-overdue awakening.
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1-2-Oscar1 year, 7 months ago
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The girls and their parents seem eager to assign "responsibility" for the attack to anyone or anything except themselves. I suggest that this is the crux of the social problem this incident typifies--that many do not (and are not expected to) accept responsibility for their own actions. I hope that the judge can find some way to demonstrate to these young people, and to their peers, that this attitude is unacceptable.
The evidence of the video is damning. This was a premeditated, coordinated, and vicious attack. The behavior of the group, regardless of their motivation, was contrary to all accepted standards of civilized society.
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nostalgia1 year, 7 months ago
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We have been watching this go on for more than a decade
Ask any teacher. Parents refuse to make their children accept responsibility for anything. In fact, these parents rush to "protect" the kids and make up excuses for them
There is no discipline and the kids have never learned self control
The "new" child rearing philosophies have been an abject failure
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nostalgia1 year, 7 months ago
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This just happened in Baltimore:
Baltimore Teacher Beaten by Student, Caught on Film
An art teacher at Baltimore's Reginald F. Lewis High School was beaten by a student and a fellow classmate caught the attack on a video phone and posted the images on MySpace
Jolita Berry said that she had told a student to sit down and behave last Friday and moments later the student jumped on top of her and began throwing punches. According to Berry other students cheered their classmate on and the abuse continued until teachers were able to pull the student off.
http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id...
When I was in school, this would have resulted in being expelled. I can't even imagine what the reaction of my parents would have been! I know it would not have been a pleasant experience
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jmopinion1 year, 7 months ago
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Be curious to see what sentence these kids get. I remember the recent brutal more violent racial attack by a gang of black teens on three white girls in Long Beach, Calif. and the perpetrators who denied everything ended up getting probation.
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toph19731 year, 7 months ago
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Hopefully they all get the maximum. It's time to send a message that this juvenile high school mob beating will not be tolerated. Its about time that his country get a handle on it's obsession with violence. Otherwise this will keep happening. This country needs to be as outraged at violence as its pathetic outrage at Janet Jackson. Things like this show how damaging violence is to people.
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vor1 year, 7 months ago
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This stuff used to happen all the time when I was growing up. Usually it was a group of guys beating the sh*t out of someone for any number of reasons. The worst fights I ever saw were when groups of black girls did this, metal picks, nails and hair pulling. Now in the age of YouTube there is national outrage over what used to be local matters. A disgusting story for sure but not one of the signs of the impending Apocalypse as the media portrays.
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lvrofwolves1 year, 7 months ago
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Tweekerchick- true but groups of people who do things like this are COWARDS and I highly doubt they would be brave enough to risk the wrath of the group turning on them instead.
All 8 were not initially remorseful??? sicko kids!! I'd beat the holy crap out of my child if they had been involved in anything like that, I guess I don't understand the parents of these kids either.
these people do not know what empathy is...I would like for them to experience first hand how that girl felt, then maybe their dim light bulb brains would light up.
and almost just as disturbing...did Dr Phil actually bail out the attacker????
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nostalgia1 year, 7 months ago
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Dr. Phil Show Blames Low-Level Staffer for Bailing Out YouTube Teen
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351206,00.html
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nostalgia1 year, 7 months ago
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Some related information:
Gloria Allred to represent videotaped beating victim
The father of Victoria Lindsay, the Lakeland teen whose beating was captured on video, says the family has hired famed attorney Gloria Allred.
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.a...
Classmates react: They are not bullies!
Who are the six girls and two guys accused in the beating? Brittni Hardcastle is the one in the white tank top and pink sweats. Her grandfather told us by phone "We support her."
But one student says not only are many people shocked about the video they're also shocked about the main person throwing punches in it saying Brittni Hardcastle is one of the nicest people you'd ever want to meet.
The mother of Brittany Mayes says her daughter is "A good girl."
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.a...
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Mutainia1 year, 7 months ago
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You'd think if they had any brains they wouldn't record themselves, yet, they do. A couple of years ago, a guy in a classroom I was subbing in, was showing his friends victims on his cell phone he recorded getting knocked out by some of his other bully friends. On the recording, some timid guy would be walking by himself on the high school campus, one of the guys' friends would run up to him, get his attention, he'd turn, and, get knocked out. All captured on digital camera phone. I don't know why the idiot would think I'd remain silent about it. Maybe because I was silent while watching it? Well, when the shock wore off, I reported it, and, reported it with much glee and enthusiasm.
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tkyrchncs1 year, 7 months ago
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It is objectionable that this is called "internet beating" when in fact it was a real physical beating in which this girl was injured. It is impossible to "beat"someone in such a way on the internet, and such inexact language leads to all kinds of misinformed speculation and ill feeling toward the internet, and possibly to censorship laws and other crap like that. We of all people should be more careful.
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kritikit1 year, 7 months ago
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they reason they did that is because they mothers and fathers coddled them till they tried to rip apart that girl like a **^^up puppy.
I was not really bothered by bullies b/c i would just be meaner... and not take it to heart. but a gang of girls and a few boys watching and laughing... lets see how many of them catch a beating over socks, pads and tampons, while they get laughed at for being a punked in jail or prison!
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Tango571 year, 7 months ago
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Now that everyone knows who they are and what they did, imagine any of those girls getting a job, respect or pitty. They will be shunned and despised by their peers and elders. That'll take care of them...oh and the lawsuits against them and their parents and jail time. There done for all ready. Had the parents paid attention to their behavior, and the road they were headed on....
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lvrofwolves1 year, 7 months ago
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Really! and that girl will have emotional scars most likely for the rest of her life. I wonder how their schools are handling this? anyone know?..I know it didn't happen at school, but they knew each other from school. It's terrible these kids screwed up their own lives for god knows how long. I'd send them all to boot camp!
As far as the parents go, there are some parents (maybe not in this case) that are good parents and no matter what, the kids go down the wrong path, I think kids need to be taught earlier in life you must take responsibility for your actions and THINK!!! The ones who truly feel remorse and regret will be the ones who will make it as responsible adult human beings, lets hope they all grow up and realize this and take full responsibility for their actions.
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lvrofwolves1 year, 7 months ago
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I'm not so sure jail time would do them any good, yeah it's a good punishment, but they obviously need to learn respect, empathy amongst many other things...does anyone think they will learn that in jail? Of course they shouldn't go without punishment, my vote is for a very strict BOOT camp!! and at the parents expense, and while they are away, the parents should have to go to parenting classes-at least the ones making excuses for their punk as s kids.
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