Posted on 03/17/2010 9:14:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A 14-year-old girl was severely beaten outside a Broward County middle school.
The sheriff's office reports that a 15-year-old boy attacked the girl Wednesday afternoon while she waited for her bus outside Deerfield Beach Middle School. The boy, who attends Deerfield Beach High School, was reportedly angry about comments someone else told him the girl had made.
Deerfield Beach was also the seen where Michael Brewer was attacked by classmates and set on fire late last year.
"My heart goes out to the parents of both of these children. This is another tap on the shoulder that says wake up. We need to start paying attention," Brewer's grandmother, Reenie, said after hearing about the attack. "How many more children are going to be hurt before we start tackling this problem head on?"
Broward Sheriff's Office spokesman Mike Jachles says the boy punched the girl, knocked her to the ground and then stomped on her repeatedly. A teacher had to pull the boy off her to stop the beating.
The girl was taken by helicopter in critical condition to a Fort Lauderdale hospital. Jachles says authorities are planning to charge the boy with attempted murder.
Horrible. It is hard to believe how evil and cruel some people can be.
“Deerfield Beach was also the seen where Michael Brewer was attacked by classmates and set on fire late last year.”
Seen? This is the problem with spell check and not teaching spelling.
These people need to get their kids out of this school. What is wrong with parents? It’s like sending their kids to a war zone.
Perpetrator as victim. That value sickens me. It's a typical liberal value.
This leads me to believe there were many bystanders - what were their reactions? Cheering him on? Rushing to the girl's rescue? Taking pics with their camera phones instead of calling 9 1 1? Is this attack on utube yet?
Schools are rumor mills in part because students are usually the last to know, just like in prison. I’ll bet that this disgusting perp has done things like this before. Nothing less than expulsion and assault charges would be appropriate.
Agree.
Police said Treacy was dating a 13-year-old girl who was using Ratley’s cell phone to text him. According to police, Ratley texted Treacy something about his brother’s suicide, which set him off. Police said Treacy then came to Deerfield Beach Middle and almost beat up the wrong girl before his girlfriend led him to Ratley.
According to Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti, the girl led 15-year-old Wayne Treacy to Josie Lou Ratley, 15, after the two older teens had exchanged increasingly combative text messages.
The 13-year-old girl and Treacy had been dating, but broke up, Lamberti said. Treacy was trying to reach the girl, who did not have a cellphone, and contacted her friend Ratley.
She told him in text messages that she did not approve of the relationship. At some point, she made a comment about Treacy’s older brother, who committed suicide last year.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/18/1535690/deerfield-beach-teen-attacked.html#ixzz0iZAheHwY
“Lamberti said Treacy became enraged, put his (steeltoed)boots on and headed to the school. He met up with the 13-year-old there,”
Definitely premeditated. If the girl dies (and I pray to God she survives), it will be Murder One.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/18/1535690/deerfield-beach-teen-attacked.html#ixzz0iZFJnxkD
As a dad to two girls, I can tell you - ain't going to happen.
UPDATE: Today she is still in a coma and if she comes out of it, brain damage is likely. Tragic.
And per my post #34 and this:
“I’d bet my house that this is a single mother home. Can we please put a punitive tax on single mothers and the fathers that abandon their children for all that they cost society?”
Someone owes me a house! Sure enough the boy is being raised by a single mom. Probably a contributing factor to his older brother’s suicide.
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