Posted on 05/22/2024 8:00:31 PM PDT by Morgana
The 15-year-old girl charged with brutally beating Kaylee Gain and leaving her in a coma will not be charged as an adult, a judge has ruled.
The decision followed testimony from a juvenile officer earlier this month, who claimed that Gain, 16, was a serial bully who tormented her attacker, Maurnice Declue, 15.
It was also alleged that Gain initiated the fight and threw the first punch, and was suspended for fighting another girl just the day prior.
On Wednesday, a St. Louis judge followed the officer's recommendation and decided that the case will remain in the juvenile court system.
Gain made national headlines and saw an outpouring of support after footage of her confrontation with Declue outside their school on March 8 went viral.
In the clip, Declue was seen slamming Gain's head into the pavement, which left her in a coma with severe brain injuries, and she only began walking again two months later.
Declue was charged with first-degree assault, and has remained in the juvenile detention system as she waited to hear if she would be tried as an adult.
But on May 10, months after the video circulated widely on social media, a judge heard testimony from the juvenile officer that went against the initial narrative of the fight.
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Your statement would have been close to accurate pre-2008. Not anymore.
The article gave the reason.
I can’t find a video that shows what happens before Kaylee is pulled to the ground, so I can’t tell who started it.
But, the video shows everyone fighting. These were two groups who met to fight each other. Kaylee was in one group.
Her own father said he found text messages between both girls. He said they both wanted to fight.
The girl who beat Kaylee took things too far. She’s 15, so she will be tried as a juvenile.
That is NO excuse whatsoever, for the kind of attempted murder the girl inflicted on Kaylee.
She should be tried for attempted murder, and she should be tried as an adult.
The slander against Kaylee Gain does not justify the assault on her. Kaylee will never fully recover from her injuries. The consequences to her assailant should be just as long lasting.
“ I saw the video, we all did. ”
No we all didn’t.
Never heard of it.
I hope she recovers fully. The other girl is facing charges - and rightfully so - because she got carried away, slamming Kaylee’s head against concrete.
But, it’s not slander to say that Kaylee was suspended for fighting the day before. It’s a fact.
It’s also not slander to repeat what her father told the news media.
Based on what her own father and other witnesses are saying, this case isn’t about a gang of teens jumping one teen. This was a fight between two groups.
The presentation of "facts" (some of which are not "facts") is character disparagement intended to justify or excuse the actions of the assailant. After all, if Kaylee was a "serial bully" as alleged then surely, she had it coming to her.
Except that she didn't.
Adolescents who deliberately inflict permanent, crippling injuries on others must be culled.
Agreed but one bad apple you know
This was not the trial- this was the proper place for this decision- the judge was only determining if she should be tried as an adult or not.
IF these accusation are true (that the girl was a serial bully, who actually started it) it would change the complexion of this case. [see what I did there?]
Shortly after the fight, I read a news story that Kaylee had been bullied, and her friends told her she "had to stand up for herself" by fighting this huge black girl.
So yes, Kaylee agree to fight. But no, she didn't really want to fight.
As for "her own father," like all good whites who are attacked by blacks, his public position is "This was not about race."
you don’t think that skinny white girl could possibly have been a bully in the past?
I figured as much.
Maybe this fight was over a shared Romeo?
Serial bully, black boyfriend. Her parents failed spectacularly.
2 thumbs up.
Hold on a moment. Lets forget about color, sex and age of the two fighting. As a man, if ever in a fight of this magnitude, I am going to fight to win and win overwhelmingly. No different if it was an armed conflict, shoot or fight until there is no more danger.In this instance, white girl bit off a bit more than she could chew and got her ass handed to her. If this was 2 adult males, it would be considered self defense. Kids have a right to self defense as well and it looks like both were willing participants. This was not an ambush assault if it had, then a crime would have been committed. AS it is, just a simple case of self defense.
KARMA
Another judge that needs a repeated introduction to a baseball bat.
Not necessarily. It is a mistake to take things people say at face value. "Fighting" the day before may simply involved getting hit by someone else.
When I was in school, it was a common practice for both parties in any dispute to get suspended.
I have twice punched people in the mouth right in the middle of class, and both of those guys got suspended too.
Both of them deserved it.
There was a third guy I should have punched in the mouth, but he got away from me.
However it began, it escalated to the point where one person was committing horrible felonious injuries on another, and beyond any excuse for it.
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