Police: Boys Rip Classmates' Clothes Off, Snap Photos

Local6 ^ | 9/27/05

[LibWhacker]

Four Central Florida middle school students were arrested Monday for allegedly ripping off the clothes off classmates and then snapping photos with their cell phones, according to a Local 6 News report.

Investigators said the boys, ages 12, 13 and 14 years old, attacked the girls Friday at Tavares Middle School in Lake County, Fla., in the back of a school bus. The boys then allegedly groped the girls and took pictures of them.

Cell phone video allegedly showed one of the girls screaming for help while the boys touch her breasts, according to the report.

Police said the attack continued after the boys got off the bus when they pulled another girl by her hair. When she fell, detectives said they put their hands up her skirt.

Detectives said it is a crime that comes close to being rape, Local 6 reporter Jessica Sanchez reported.

"You forcibly hold someone down, you remove their clothing, you are fondling that person -- if these children had been adults, this is a crime, if convicted, they would be labeled sex offenders for the rest of their lives," Lake County sheriff's Sgt. Christie Mysinger said.

Police said two of the boys have confessed to taping the attacks with their cell phones, Local 6 News reported.

Also, police are looking at surveillance video from the school bus.

All of the boys face felony charges.

[CodeToad]

My sister had one of those. She stayed good for 15 years but is now back to her belligerent self.

[IamConservative]

Since these hoodlums don't know how to treat women, perhaps involuntary separation from their testicles should be part of the punishment.

[rattrap]

I'll bet you dollars to donuts their moms don't know.

[stopsign]

This story reminds me of others i have read in the past, but the poor girls were raped by several guys, while riding the buss. And another time the girl was given a note to go to a room and was held down by another girl while her friends raped the poor girl, these things are sad... : ) <<< me

[Shalom Israel]

Would your attitude change if one of the girls were your daughter?

If I read it correctly, "boyz will be boyz" wasn't meant to dismiss what they did, but instead was a back-handed reference to the fact that they are black. Note the "z".

[rattrap]

Canadians?

[conserv13]

rap is degrading, disgusting, anti-social, violent and has no place in a balanced society

My grandparents said the same thing to my parents about rock and roll.

My great grandparents said the same thing to my grandparents about jazz.

[conserv13]

Canadians is slang for black people.

[R. Scott]

You forcibly hold someone down, you remove their clothing, you are fondling that person -- if these children had been adults, this is a crime, if convicted, they would be labeled sex offenders for the rest of their lives," Lake County sheriff's Sgt. Christie Mysinger said.

But it’s not a crime for kids?

[R. Scott]

Boyz will be Boyz

Way back when my daughter was in high school she was groped while stepping up into the bus. She beat the pervert severely.
I was called to the schools to pick her up and take her home – she had been expelled for violence!
When I walked into the office she was setting near a large boy with a great shiner and bloody nose. She told me what happened before the suits could intervene. The suits told me no violence would be tolerated (“0 Tolerance” policy). I asked to see the police report and was told that no report had been made. “Boys will be boys ha ha.”
When I stated I would make the call myself they quickly changed their mind. My daughter was not suspended, and an “investigation” was conducted.
Nothing came of it – except that the boy changed his attitude toward girls.

[rattrap]

Canadians is slang for black people.

Never heard that one. How in the world did that terminology come about?

[conserv13]

I am not sure but I have heard it before, usually derogatory and used in mixed company.

[little jeremiah]

later pingout.

[albee]

see my post #77.

[BenLurkin]

"(plus I'm) rollin with two Glocks"

That part, I can relate to. As for the rest -- yikes!

[little jeremiah]

Moral Absolutes Ping.

Here's what Star Parker, a noted black conservative writer, has to say:

"Consider that black households that are headed by married
couples have median incomes almost 90 percent that of white
households headed by married couples. The problem in the black
community is that far too few black households are headed by
married couples. Black social reality in New Orleans at the
moment when the floodwaters started pouring in was fairly typical
of black inner-city social reality around the country. Upwards
of 70 percent of the households were headed by single parents,
mostly women. When I discuss social statistics with audiences
around the country, I invariably hear gasps when I point out
that the out-of-wedlock birthrate today among young white women
(30 percent) is higher than it was among black women 50 years
ago. There, of course, remain residuals of racism in America
today, and it's news to a lot of whites that black families were
relatively intact, headed by married couples, in the '40s and
'50s. Today's out-of-wedlock black births and single-parent
households are triple what they were then. The collapse of the
black family took off when big government programs, particularly
welfare, were launched, compliments of black and white liberals,
after the civil-rights movement."

What more needs be said?

Except read the whole thread, near the end are lyrics (actually, they aren't lyrics, they're barely words) to a rap - well, it's not a song, either. A rap screed. Read it.

Freepmail me if you want on/off this pinglist.

[Cobra64]

Geld them...

I agree. Simple solution and a deterrent to future actions.