That is such a travesty!
It is. But it is what is happening in cities and towns across this country as the third world influence keeps creeping in. It is not only in the kids from the inner city and the hood, but it is happening to kids across the board as they become the wannabes. I owned a series of bail bonding offices for years and I saw it first hand.
The hood kids are hit the hardest, but they glamorize it, and the other kids, kids from good families who can afford the better life want to try it and you see the "good" little girls hanging out with the hoodrats and doing just what was going on in this news article in order to be cool.
This gang culture is pushed on them at school, and they either adapt to it or they are not cool. I speculate that this child was not forced into this but did it as a part of being accepted, I speculate that this might not have been the first time, and I speculate that any of your children of this age are vulnerable. It is becomming the norm even in the small towns and villages across this country. Anywhere they can get MTV, this goes on.
C