Posted on 06/07/2010 2:16:35 PM PDT by Enterprise
"A jury this morning found two Fresno Bulldog gang members not guilty of aggravated mayhem for inking a gang tattoo on a 7-year-old boy during Easter break 2009."
(Excerpt) Read more at fresnobee.com ...
The two men were accused of holding the boy down, and giving him a bulldog tattoo against his will. They were on trial for aggravated mayhem, and had they been found guilty, they would have been given a life sentence.
The testimony of the little boy was that he did not want the tattoo.
The two men said that the boy wanted the tattoo, and the father said the boy begged him for the tattoo, and he said he loved his son and would never deliberately hurt him.
The Bulldogs are located in different areas. I can't remember all the gang names, but there are the Park side Bulldogs, East side Bulldogs, and others. They engage in the usual: murder, robbery, drugs, vehicle thefts, residential burglaries, and occasional rapes.
Even if the kid ‘begged’ for the tattoo, 7 isn’t old enough to make that kind of decision.
What in the world are the particulars for “aggravated mayhem”?
“and the father said the boy begged him for the tattoo”
Kids need parents, not “cool big friends”.
do you give the thugs a life sentence for a tattoo that the 7 year old probably asked for then changed his mind after he found out it wasn’t a lick and stick tattoo...
mitigating circumstances, but still wrong... however, not life sentencing... this is the problem with zero tolerance and mandatory sentencing... they should do time...
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we need to take back this land...and the dirt and filth of society needs to be unceremoniously dumped.
Agreed. No one under the age of 18 should be able to get a tattoo without the permission of a parent or guardian, and no one should force them to get one.
As if life isn’t hard enough, without branding “Loser” on a kid before he has a fair shot at life.
Putting Daddy behind bars for life would possibly be the best thing that could possibly happen to this kid. As-is; he doesn’t have a chance, I wonder how many innocents this predator is going to beat, maim and rob, before he winds up behind bars .... just like Dear Old Dad.
Whatcha going after me for? I just asked a legal question.
gang members on the jury I bet
PC 205. A person is guilty of aggravated mayhem when he or she unlawfully, under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the physical or psychological well-being of another person, intentionally causes permanent disability or disfigurement of another human being or deprives a human being of a limb, organ, or member of his or her body. For purposes of this section, it is not necessary to prove an intent to kill. Aggravated mayhem is a felony punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for life with the possibility of parole
My understanding of aggravated mayhem is that is a very violent crime. An example would be slicing someones ear off, or severing a limb. That being said, it appears that the DA used the words "unlawfully, under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the physical or psychological well-being of another person, intentionally causes permanent disability or disfigurement" to charge the men with this section.
They may have filed the charges so heavily because of the gang membership and/or possible past criminal felony convictions. Regardless, I suspect that the jury did not want to send them to prison for a life sentence for the tattoo. Just a guess though.
Upon first hearing of this case, that was exactly what I was thinking. The kid has a tattoo used by a very violent gang. No decent father would do that to his kid. I too suspect that this will not be the last we hear about the kid’s father.
Seriously, I really doubt that there were gang members on the jury. :)
That’s uncomfortably close to common sense. It would never fly in liberal la-la land...
I don’t doubt anything anymore.
And Fresno has 26 murders this year to date (last year, at the same time there were 13 murders). Gangs are out of control.
“Not guilty” sends the wrong message entirely.
These thugs should have been punished severely. Informal authority must not fly here; we need the rule of law to speake more loudly than ever.
These men should have been convicted and punished severely.
The testimony is clear as a bell.
Sounds like the jury blamed only the father, who wasn’t on trial.
And Fresno has 26 murders this year to date (last year, at the same time there were 13 murders). Gangs are out of control.”
To think that Fresno used to be a nice quiet agricultural town.
Disgusting.
No wonder over 500,000 WORKING PRODUCTIVE citizens left California for other states last year.
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