Posted on 02/21/2006 12:12:26 AM PST by BobDobbs9911
Girl Charged With Battery After Dodge Ball Game
POSTED: 6:08 pm PST February 15, 2006 UPDATED: 7:06 pm PST February 15, 2006
ALTA LOMA, Calif. -- What started as a version of the schoolyard game of dodge ball has apparently become a legal ordeal for a 12-year-old girl and her family.Complaints by the parents of a student injured during a game at Hermosa Elementary School prompted authorities to charge Brittney Schneiders with battery.
Five other students also accused of battery stemming from the May 8 playground game opted to take probation, but Brittney Schneiders and her parents refused.
"I don't think I did (commit a crime)," Brittney told NBC4's Mary Parks. "I thought I was just playing a dodge ball game. I never thought it would come up to this level."
For seven years, Schneiders made the honor roll and received good citizenship awards, but the teen soccer star is in a legal mess over a game of "Wall Ball."
"Wall Ball" is a game where a team throws or kicks a ball in an attempt to hit other players.
Schneiders kicked a ball that hit a boy who wore braces, giving him a fat lip.
The district attorney, probation and sheriff's departments agreed with the school that the boy was repeatedly and unnecessarily hit with the ball and they filed charges against the students.
But Brittney's father, Ray Schneiders, believes the law has gone overboard.
"We are not parents who see our princess can do no wrong," Ray Schneiders said. "It is all about power and the manic egos of those who possess and abuse it."
David Hidalgo, supervising deputy district attorney for San Bernardino County, told NBC4 that although it is illegal for his office to discuss specific cases, he notes that there is always the option of community service or a letter of apology to resolve a case.
"When parents refuse to cooperate under those circumstances and they refuse to hold a minor accountable for their criminal conduct and insist they go to court to refute the allegations, then we have no choice," Hidalgo said.
The district attorney's office also is frustrated by not being able to legally and publicly divulge all the facts in the case, Parks reported.
The case is set for trial in March.
My reply posted anonymously says (feel free to post your comment):
What is the world coming to when a huge group of one (1) girl bullies a gang of boys and bloodies one of their lips?
What can we do about this one girl bullying all of these boys?!?!?!?!? This girl needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for proving that girls are more manly than those boys.
This needs to be stopped immediately to keep the self esteem of these boys from being destroyed. A fact-finding commission needs to start a witchhunt to go after these little witches across the whole nation!
Stop the brutality. Stop dogdeball, soccer, and kickball. Balls used in the wrong manner by the wrong people only destroy lives. Girls with balls are worst offenders! # posted by Anonymous : 12:04 AM
She should have him him below the belt since he obviously has no huevos.
welcome to the politically correct nanny state where dodge ball is considered attempted murder.
You know the old saying that starts, "When you outlaw balls..."
Starts with the letter P and ends with Y
Maybe the little metal mouthed baby shouldn't have been playing such a "dangerous" game.. I'm surprised his mommy let him out to play with the other kids.
I always put him out first, unless he managed to catch the ball (about 20%).
I was small, fast, strong, and vicious at dodge ball. I loved it.
I took a lot of hard hits. I lived.
/johnny
PansY - the effeminization of the American male
And who defined this as a "crime"?
When I was growing up if you were a smaller boy you had three choices:
1. Ridicule
2. Have an outgoing personality
3. Be a damn good fighter
2 didn't work for me and 1 was never a good option
I have to present the other side of the coin.
Years ago, my son was playing dodgeball in a group of kids, some that were bigger than the others.
One kid, who was a year older and quite a bit bigget, got the ball - he turned around and whaled my son with it in the face from maybe a foot away as hard as he could.
My son complained all afternoon, and when I examined his mouth, he had split his front primary tooth vertically. I took him to the dentist and it cost me $400 to repair. When I told the mother what happened, she struck an attitude and told me that's what happens in Dodgeball.
Now it seems the tooth is going to need a root canal, which should be another thousand. This kid was a bully and he took advantage of a game of ball in order to beat up on a smaller kid. In the meantime, my son is going to have a broken front tooth the rest of his life. I get mad whenever I think of it.
My best revenge is knowing that the mother got stuck with one rotten kid. I've already heard she is paying big time for coddling that little rat.
When I was a kid, a well-aimed dodge ball hit me in my feet while I was jumping, knocking me off my feet! I never forgot that and that knowledge of how fragile it was to maintain my balance helped me throughout my life.
Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger! Boys who grow up without scars make weak men.
I'm assuming your post was sarcastic but, with ideas like that, you'd make a heck of a candidate for a democratic seat in a state senate somewhere.
These folks are raising this boy to be a sissy man. Great way to have the boy get his butt kicked daily.
Hear, hear. 5'6. As a little kid (little as in elementary school) I had to learn how to be good at dodgeball.
And the outgoing personality, which I had, only went so far. Ridicule was bound to happen at least once or twice. Just never twice from the same mouth (often bloodied to prove a point). Me and my friends aged well, despite the violent nature of our sex through the eighties. I don't know, maybe we were the exception to the rule and "girlying" up boys today is the answer. Well, I guess that the way I'm raising mine is the wrong answer, then. (Y'know..don't start a fight, but be sure to end it.)
The article is pretty vague about what happened. I see two possible extremes:
1.) The boy was hit by a kicked ball in the mouth and went down and whined about it. In this case, the kid is obviously a sissy and needs to be tough.
2.) The kid got hit and went down, and the other kids in this group started taunting him. They repeatedly picked up the ball at close range, and in turn, threw it as hard as they could at the kid's head while he cowered. The girl placed the ball on the ground several feet from the kid's head, then wound up and kicked it as hard as she could at his head (because she is, after all, a "star" soccer player...) The kid looks up for a second and gets hit square in the mouth with a well kicked ball. Blood flows.
Now, I will bet money the scenario is much closer to the second scenario than the first one. The kid is still a sissy in scenario two, but there is more to it. What I find sad about this is that the girl probably kicked it into the kids face just to show she was as tough as the guys. At that age, she could probably kick it harder than any one of those guys, too.
That is just one of the piles of bullshit feminism has given society, women the "right" to be as much of an a$$hole as any guy.
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