Sunday - March 01, 2009

Violent attacks by teenage girls treble in seven years.  (Gosh, can anyone guess why?)

I’m posting this story for a couple of reasons, knowing perhaps not many readers in states will care about crime and kids here in the UK. 

It surely is a sorry ass situation when things come to this and my guess would be that the states aren’t much better with regard to this group.
Being away from home the past 4 and half years means I’m out of touch with things there.  But let me tell ya, this kind of story hits home.

While lucky enough not to have been confronted by anyone so far, I have passed any number of foul mouthed, slovenly and generally sober “youths” on some of my travels here.  And they damn well are intimidating.  Both sexes but to be honest I think maybe it’s my generation too that looks at young women who resemble guys in their attitudes toward mayhem, with some shock and disappointment.

I’ve seen and heard them on buses here, and nobody says a word to them.  You might be taking your life in your hands if you do.
These slags,sluts and thugs care nothing about civility and will be very quick to kick and stab. As in, to death.  And they are NOT necessarily on drink and drugs at that moment.  To them, it’s sport.

A couple of years ago one young teen age girl along with three guys, attacked people at random and in one case the girl used the victims head as a football while her life’s major achievement was being shot on a video phone.  The victim died.  None of the group is serving life!

What I described above is sadly not an isolated story.

But whenever there’s a story originating from the states about a gun crime, you can ALWAYS read the comments by readers here (UK) saying things like; Well what do you expect from a gun happy culture like America?  Of course is pisses me off no end because I can’t speak directly to our critics, who speak oh so knowingly about the USA and guns and crime there. 

Frustrating on two counts of course because I can’t answer our critics AND ... I’m not armed.  And I don’t care what anyone tells you.  To be unarmed here is to be a sitting duck.  Same back home I would imagine.  But being armed isn’t any guarantee either as more often then not you won’t see the attack that floors you coming.

Violent attacks by teenage girls have more than trebled in the past seven years, new figures have dislcosed.

By Richard Edwards, Crime Correspondent
Last Updated: 1:54PM GMT 01 Mar 2009

The Youth Justice Board found that girls under 17 were behind almost 23,000 violent attacks in England and Wales last year - more than 60 every day.
The researchers found that Britain’s binge-drinking culture was partly to blame for a rise in so-called “ladette” violence. Approximately one in three girls aged 15 to 16 admitting that she binge-drinks in the a survey.

Though young men still carry out far more crimes, the gap between the sexes is closing.
The total number of offences by girls aged ten to 17 resulting in court action in 2007/08 was 58,500, a ten per cent rise in two years.
Nearly four in ten crimes committed by girls involved violent assault. Nearly one in three involved handling stolen goods.

While the total number of offences by teenage boys is still much higher – 120,000 – the number has fallen by six per cent in the same period.
The findings came from research conducted by the Youth Justice Board based on cases in 2007/08 which led to courts imposing a community or custodial sentence or a supervision order. It included a MORI survey which asked young people how much they drink and whether they have broken the law.
Last month a report written for the Ministry of Justice also found mounting evidence of increased violence among girls.

In 1998, only 11 per cent of women between ten and 25 admitted committing a crime. That figure has now soared to 17 per cent, while the number of boys who admit law-breaking has stayed steady at 26 per cent.

Recent figures for arrests showed violent attacks by women ranged from street brawls and assault to grievous bodily harm and murder. Racially-aggravated attacks by girls more than doubled, from 351 to 748, and public order offences such as drunkenness rose nearly 40 per cent, compared to 2003/04.

BAD GIRLS

Posted by peiper     on 03/01/2009 at 02:04 PM   
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