[businessprofessor]

These little animals must have some world class parents. But at least they raised them stupid, too, as evidenced by the decision to video their deeds and put it on youtube or myspace. That even outclasses some of the criminals who’d victimize someone, then use their cell phone for days.

I would not jump to conclusions about their parents. Teens do stupid things especially in a group setting. Group influence on a teen's behavior can be an enormous factor.

[maine-iac7]

Teens do stupid things especially in a group setting.

Lord of the Flies syndrome

[celticfreedom]

The mother of one of the suspects said the victim, Victoria Lindsay, had provoked the teens by threatening and insulting them on MySpace, while Lindsay’s father said the teens had been motivated by their desire to create a popular Internet video. Films of fights and other violent acts are not only prevalant online, but popular, he said.

obviously one parent believes it’s the victim’s fault...after all, how dare she say mean things about her precious angel???
God help us!!

[MediaMole]

Considering that the mother of one of the perps is on the video defending her precious snowflake, I will blame the parents.

[fightinJAG]

Yes, but it seems like this particular group would have given off warning signals to mindful parents long ago.

[Will88]

“I would not jump to conclusions about their parents. Teens do stupid things especially in a group setting. Group influence on a teen’s behavior can be an enormous factor.”

With behavior this animalistic and heartless, I think there has to be at least a lot of parental neglect that’s turning out daughters who resort to such brutal behavior over what someone else said about them. And, who knows, the parents might encourage such revenge taking. We had the recent case of a parent involved with the myspace or facebook hoax that led a fragile girl to commit suicide after being dropped by the internet boyfriend made up by the mother and daughter.

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