Wednesday - April 09, 2008

How much rope would it take?

Today’s big story is about another sick crime committed by utterly heartless and moronic teenagers. It’s all over the news. It’s the story about the beating Victoria Lindsay was subjected to. It’s not “another Girl Fight video” as some channels have reported. It’s attempted murder purely for kicks. And for video fame. I really don’t give a crap what the charges are, this was an attempt to kill, for a minute or two of fame on YouTube. The talking heads on television are saying this young high school girl was beaten even after she was unconsious. By her friends. That’s attempted murder. Murder One too, as it was a fully planned conspiracy on the 8 “children” who took part in it.

Lindsay has bruises, a concussion and damage to her left ear and eye, although her family said she is expected to recover.
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The tape shows Lindsey being beaten and taunted as other teenagers shout in the background.

All suspects face charges for false imprisonment and battery. Three of them were charged with kidnapping because, the sheriff’s office said, they forced Lindsay into a car and drove her to another location after the beating.

The suspects were identified as 17-year-old Mercades Nichols, 17-year-old Brittini Hardcastle, 14-year-old April Cooper, 16-year-old Cara Murphy, 17-year-old Britney Mayes and 15-year-old Kayla Hassell. Zachary Ashley, 17, and Stephen Schumaker, 18, were identified by deputies as the lookouts.

The victim reported the attack after she was beaten so badly she had to be treated at the hospital. That’s when the sheriff’s office started looking into it and learned about the video. The sheriff calls it shocking, saying he’s never seen anything like it. It was a vicious attack all captured on home video inside a Polk County home. When 16-year-old Victoria Lindsay arrived at her friend’s house where she had been staying, six girls were waiting. Immediately, they started yelling and one girl began pummeling the victim. On the video, the girls can be heard encouraging the fight in the background, even taunting Lindsay to fight back, all while one of them held the camera. The victim’s family has said it was an elaborate plot to injure and embarrass Victoria Lindsay. Lindsay’s parents couldn’t believe their daughter had to endure the attack.

Police said Lindsay was attacked on March 30 by six teenage girls when she arrived at a friend’s home.  One of the girls struck her on the head several times and then slammed Lindsay’s head into a wall, knocking her unconscious, according to an arrest report.  Later, according to a clip of the video that was released by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, the teens can be seen blocking a door and hitting her.

Two males, Ashley and Schumaker, allegedly acted as lookouts, police said.

Polk Sheriff Grady Judd said the girls had such little regard for the consequences of their actions—while they were in the holding cell, one allegedly remarked to another, “I guess this means we won’t be going to the beach.”

Another asked, “Does this mean I’m going to miss cheerleading class?”

Principal Hatch says, in his 30-plus years working with kids, times are scarier now than ever before.  The girls told Polk deputies they were getting Tori back for talking trash about them on her MySpace page. Their plan—they say—was to stage the fight and post it on You Tube for revenge.

The trial should last about 7 minutes. The “alleged perpatrators” were so smart they videotaped the entire thing and then published it on YouTube. Game over. Guilty. Should these poor little kiddies who were just trying to embarass this girl, not really hurt anyone, be charged as adults? Without question. If you’re old enough to be in high school you’re old enough to know right from wrong. Even the two standing outside as lookouts, specifically put there to make sure the sound of screaming wasn’t too loud. Charge them with the real thing, conspiracy to commit murder, with a torture and kidnapping rider. Charge them all equally, find them all guilty. Then take them outside and hang them, and leave their bodies to rot in the wind. Film the whole thing. And put the video up on YouTube.

These “children” are complete and total failures as human beings. 3, 5, 10, 25 years in prison isn’t going to teach them a damn thing. They are soulless bastards without the slightest shred of compassion for another human being. I don’t give a flaming rat’s ass if they’re 14 or 45.

And for financial penalties? Now let’s turn things around and say that, because they were all under 21, the parents are fiscally responsible. Strip the parents of every last cent they have. Convert every asset they have to cash, right down to selling the clothes on their backs at a garage sale. And every penny goes to Victoria. Not a dime for the lawyers. Then throw the parents into solitary confinement for 3 years, with no human contact at all, no TV or radio, not even a book to read, so they have ample opportunity to focus on their utter failure as parents. Any other minor children these people have get thrown to Social Services forever.

Posted by Drew458     on 04/09/2008 at 04:57 PM   
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