Posted on 06/05/2016 6:55:21 PM PDT by MtnClimber
The following news video shows an unprovoked attack by five culture-enriching “youths” on a 14-year-old boy at a shopping center in Melbourne, Australia. The first blow was a kick to the head while the victim had his hands in his pockets.
A MELTON teenager has narrowly escaped serious injury after he was the victim of a violent and unprovoked attack.
A video shared to Facebook viewed more than 64,000 times, shows 14-year-old Haydyn Wilson being violently bashed by a group of five older teenagers in an unprovoked attack at Woodgrove shopping centre in Melton.
The incident happened last Wednesday evening around 5pm.
Eyewitness Joel Hamilton said he heard a racket which got his attention.
“I saw this group of teenagers holding the kid up against a window, crowding and circling him, he couldn’t get out of there,” he said.
“They were intimidating him. The kid had his hands in his pockets the whole time … he wasn’t going to attack.
“He tried to escape and ran 2-3meters away from the group before they got him again and started beating the sh*t out of him.”
“He was on the ground bleeding so much, his nose was all pushed back it didn’t look too nice.”
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As a teacher in one of Australia’s oldest and most prestigious Catholic schools, unfortunately I don’t.
The vast majority of Catholic kids wouldn’t do this, I’d agree - but this is 4 kids out of a school. It’s a tiny proportion. Any school can have kids who go bad. It’s whether they do something about it that counts. From what I can see locally, this school is trying to do what it can. The pupils will be disciplined. And the police are also involved.
Exactly what happened is still under investigation and that needs to continue. But I’m seeing people trying to paint this as somehow involving Muslim immigration and that’s a really long bow to draw given the kids involved and so far, there’s no real reason to think it likely.
Note - we do have plenty of problems with thugs from Muslim refugee backgrounds here - it’s just at the moment, this particular case doesn’t look like that.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/catholic-school-muslims_us_567161d1e4b0648fe3019517
etc. etc. etc.
Their being students at a Catholic school means nothing with respect to their religion.
The real problem is that politicians or police that go after the good guy never have their constituents pay them back in kind.
Locally, that’s not the case. The school does take a very small number of non-Catholics - these students do not seem to have been among that.
There are other places where Catholic schools routinely admit non-Catholics - including some other places in Melbourne. That particular school doesn’t because Catholic have priority entry and there’s a shortage of Catholic school places in the area, so the vast majority of the students are Catholic.
Understand I am a teacher at a Catholic school in the same Archdiocese and am also involved at policy level for the Archdiocese. I know the features of the school, and I’m involved in discussions at Archdiocese level about what went wrong.
Look up ‘Coudenhove-Kalergi’.
Here we were working ourselves into a fair dinkum frenzy, and you had go and get all reasonable.
And stuff. Grrrrr....
The pack that did this should be nutted.
Permanently.
So you’re OK with immigrant packs beating the shit out of other kids for ‘kicks’?
As long as those packs aren’t Muslim.
?
What is likely to actually happen is a long suspension from school, and referral into counselling. Do I expect that to work well? It has been known to, but my confidence isn’t high. We do have problems here and I’m not sure we’re equipped to deal with them - but we need to be clear on what the problems actually are, and not be getting them confused with other issues.
(And - to be clear - as I understand it, one of the boys involved is not a student at the school and I don’t believe they know who he is yet, so I know nothing about his situation or why he was involved).
Don’t be surprised if you find out the other boy is NOT a Catholic.
Any reason this group ganged up on the young boy and beat him?
That is still under investigation. I’ve heard a story that I don’t think is plausible but it is possible. At the moment I think the school and the police should be allowed to get to the bottom of it, if they can.
I will say that I’ve seen nothing to suggest the boy who was attacked did anything wrong at all and I would not be surprised if there was some racial motivation behind it.
I submit that the actions of those boys was sufficiently un-Catholic that they should be permanently expelled from the school. “Our students do not do that, and if they do that, they are no longer our students.” Over and above any criminal charges and civil judgements, both of which I think should be forthcoming.
Black on white attack. It’s that simple.
Expulsion isn’t impossible, but general practice is to try and keep the student in the school and teach them to do better next time - not just pass the problem on to somebody else knowing that nothing will be done to correct their behaviour at all if that happens - with expulsion only being used with repeat offenders. These may well be repeat offenders but if this is their first serious breach, suspension is most likely.
More than one kick and more than one punch was thrown. They are already repeat offenders. Not only did one of them kick him unprovoked, but the others kicked him repeatedly when he was down. Each of those is a separate criminal attack.
It will be treated as a single incident. Is that right? Honestly, I’m not sure. It if was my school, I’d have some say in it, and their previous record would count for a lot. So would the opinion of the parents of the victim, and the victim himself.
But expelling them from that school wouldn’t accomplish much (expelling them from my school would because of its particular reputation as one of the best schools - and we’d also feel more pressure to do so than a Regional Catholic College). It would not make them any less likely to do this again.
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