Posted on 02/11/2023 1:59:26 AM PST by Morgana
The four teenage girls involved in the beating of 14-year-old Adriana Kuch, which her father says drove her to take her life, have been hit with new charges in New Jersey.
Kuch was found dead in her home in Bayville on February 3, days after an horrific video spread online showing her being set upon by a group of bullies in the hallways of Central Regional High School.
The four alleged attackers were initially slapped with third-degree assault charges and one also charged charged with disorderly conduct after they were also suspended indefinitely from school.
Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced on Friday that the charges against the teens had been upgraded.
One is now charged with aggravated assault, and could face court as an adult, one with harassment and two with conspiracy to commit aggravated assault.
Billhimer said: 'Each juvenile and their guardian was served with a copy of their complaint and are released pending future court appearances.'
None of the teens behind the attack have been identified.
The 20-second viral clip shows several students attacking the teen and hitting her with a water bottle as she walked with her boyfriend.
Bystanders are also seen laughing at Adriana after she was punched, kicked and had her hair pulled, while she lay in the fetal position on the floor of the school hallway.
One of the attackers could be heard yelling, 'That's what you get you stupid a** b****.'
According to New Jersey law, minors charged with more serious offenses, such as assault, can be tried in adult criminal court.
The decision on whether or not to charge as an adult lies with the prosecutor.
The penalty for a conviction of aggravated assault in New Jersey is anywhere between 18 months and 10 years in prison.
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Undoubtedly in response to the father that is intending to rain holy hell on thebschool board.
Bttt
As he should that Superintendent is a jackass.
BTW...Their website is down, it’s crashed but the wayback machine is working just fine.
Dr. Triantafillos Parlapanides, Superintendent
732-269-1100 x 206
tparlapanides@centralreg.k12.nj.us
That was a horrible thing to say about that child and her family. He needs to resign.
What did he say?
I know that it will be worse than I think.
The school board should hold a special meeting to fire him RIGHT NOW!
And if they do not, the people should elect new school board members in the next election.
To blame the juvenile thugs for Adriana’s suicide is idiotic.
Take the pensions from the scumbag “educators” in charge. Hell, terminate their jobs and sue them to an eternity of debt.
They both should share responsibility.
Our society should get some serious changes in the schools, and also in how we deal with violence.
I would have started by breaking up their little clique one way or another even if it meant the 4 of them not being able to be together on school grounds.
Which is abhorrible, yet which testifies to the fruit of deficient overall collective upbringing, both in such bullying and not interceding for them but also not having the strength to overcome such, which we all must, esp. as conservatives.
Too bad they aren’t hit with a low level murder charge.
“That’s what you get you stupid a** b****.”
Now who speaks like that? That language has a familiar tone to it.
Poor girl, but I blame her parents, as no one FORCED them to send her to a public school.
“Would seem the girls’ charges have been upgraded.”
Not high enough. Manslaughter.
I recall that girl who was on the phone encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself, which he did. I think she was charged with some degree of murder. I know she want to court but am not sure if she was convicted.
Appears to be a tu-tone attack
OMG... that’s terrible. Does that lump of a man understand that he’s digging himself deeper in the hole?
He’s a fine specimin. It’s good to see that the brightest and best are running public schools.
Flog the boyfriend for cowardice.
The WorldStar generation
This is a case where the governor should have already stepped in.
The superintendent should have been fired, all students identified in the video, who laid a hand on the girl, should be charged with assault.
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