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I didn't see that anyone had made a post about this, and it's something that has really upset me, so I thought I would.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=207100417

Has anyone heard about this?
A 16 year old girl was lured to the home of a former friend and was then ganged up on by six girls who held her in the house against her will and took turns beating on her.

This severely disturbs me. I've already made one ridiculously long blog about it tonight so I won't do that here. But I was just wondering if anyone else has heard about it and what your thoughts on it are.

Oh, I'm not very good at putting in internet links so I hope I did right.

My sister and I are literally sick over this. Six girls just because they didn't like something she said on myspace.
I hope they all get tried as adults(or at least as many as can be)and I hope they all go to jail.

This actually does nothing more than send me into a fit of rage. I HATE how pathetic teenagers are becoming and how petty their fights are. No one deserves to be ganged up on like that, no matter what has been said about who. And you're right it is sickening and nothing's going to change. Unlike most people I would never blame media/television/internet for this sort of violence all this kind of violence is is sheer stupidity. Everyone of those kids deserves what they did to that girl being done back onto them. I know that may sound harsh but that's the only way they'll ever get any sense of what they really did. They won't be tried as adults because of their age. Maybe if they were close to turning eighteen yes, but otherwise their going to get sent to some juvenile detention center where a pathetic third-rate counselor attempts to make them "understand their anger." Aside from that, the only people who will actually get into trouble are those who threw the punches.

I think the only way to solve this problem is to beat some sense into the little twats. It really irritates me that the teenage population has degraded so much. Recently there was a video in a town not far from where I live of a fight and some kid had a friggin' gun. I regret ever bringing a child into the world where this could very well be her in the future.

The main difference is, though, I'd crack some little skulls if they tried to beat my daughter like that.

UGH. This also reminds me of a movie I saw where a group of "athletes" in a small town basically got away with raping a mentally-challenged girl with a broom, bat and something else just because of who they were. It's disgusting to know this kind of stuff can happen and no one can really think of a good way to get it under control.

-fumes- I'm too irritated to even look for typos.

I totally agree with you. Especially about the movie :blanches: That just makes me want to throw up. You here so many stories about violence among teenagers today, and there are so many reason why, in my opinion.

First, they're exposed to this stuff from a very early age. I'm not blaming the media, but when practically all there is on TV has some sort of sexual or violent undertones, it causes problems.

Second, is the degredation of the family unit. Kids are doing things unmonitored because they're parents are mostly too busy to deal with them.

Third is the rediculous amount of freedom kids are allowed nowadays. When i was a little kid, we had something called ::chores:: and ::rules::, and we respected them.

Fourth, not to sound like a threapist, but young kids today just don't know how to deal with their issues n a reational, constructive manner. The swo site of the argument on myspace should have been able to work it out without resorting to any sort of violence.

:sigh: sorry about the wall of text.

I have no hope for the future if this is any indication.

Whoah, I didnt hear of it before so I read the article and looked up some news reports on youtube.. That is so fucking horrible.. O_O

thats the dumbest thing a person can do xD shit.

Estrella-yeah, I learned of it hours ago and I'm still going off about it.

Arkeyla-that is actually how the cop described it, something about a pact like beast mentality.

Did you guys catch the part about how they actually knocked her unconscious, moved her to the couch in the other room(there was more room to beat on her in there), WAITED for her to wake up, and started beating on her all over again.
Oh, and who caught the part about the mom defending her daughter and the others because the girl(the one beaten)should take some blame for writing crap on myspace. She even says something along the lines of 'you shouldn't say something if you can't back it up."

The girls actually thought it was a fair fight because only one of them would beat on her at a time. I'm sorry, but there is nothing fair about being beaten on by more than one person, even if it is only one at a time.
...my heart goes out to that girl. She didn't even try to fight back, she just wanted to leave. I get not wanting to fight, I'm not a fighter. But survival instincts would have kicked in when I realized they weren't going to let me out of that house.

My boyfriend is studying law and he thinks that there is a good chance that they will all get off. I guess Florida is a really horrible state to live in law-wise. I think they should all be punished, if it is to different degrees. They have permanently effected this girl's life and they should be held accountable.
I know this sound horrible-I am not a violent person-but I hope that girls gang up on them in jail(or juvy, where ever they are)and show them how it feels every single day that they are in there.

That's terrible. I can't understand why people would want to do that...and I certainly can't understand why they'd want to show other people. That's just showing people what monsters they are. If I did something like that(which I wouldn't) I'd be ashamed and wouldn't want anyone to ever know.

The idea was that they were going to put the video on myspace and youtube. It was a ploy to humiliate the girl. I don't know how they thought they could beat her up, record the beating and then display it online, and somehow didn't think they would get into any trouble for it. It's not like they were playing pranks or hazing like they do for college sororities/fraternities; they did physical damage to her and it was serious, permanent damage. The only thing accomplished by recording it is that now it is being used as evidence against them.

Wow.. That's pretty messed up.

I think its complete crap that someone would do that just because they could. Then procceed to post it online where other people are going to watch it and think its fake. But in reality some girl went through somuch for them to make that video. Just think this is the next generation of kids. But nobody wants to get old now. It just greatly saddens me that the next generation has lost its respect for one another. You see little six year olds cussing and flipping older people off. Saying all this cruel stuff. Its just really said that the youth today is so messed up. BTW THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO ALL OF THE NEXT GENERATION. I am part of the next generation, but I still have respect where respect is do. And all the kids that have that same respect I give you major brownie points. Don't forget what good parents try to teach you.

I don't understand why she couldn't just push her way out of the room
o.o

I saw a video clip of it, and found it terrible disturbing. Poor person, having to go through that. People really overreact over such small things, like posting bad things about each other on the internet.

Utterly ridiculous.