Posted on 12/22/2009 4:57:41 PM PST by SkyPilot
ENGLEWOOD, N.J. (CBS) ― Click to enlarge1 of 1 David Muneton, an eighth grade honor student, needed reconstructive facial surgery after being savagely beaten by a gang of 11 students on Dec. 18, 2009, in Engelwood, N.J.
David Muneton, an eighth grade honor student, needed reconstructive facial surgery after being savagely beaten by a gang of 11 students on Dec. 18, 2009, in Engelwood, N.J.
Police said as many as 11 students beat up the eighth-grader leaving him severely injured, and he may even lose his sight.
CBS 2 HD spoke with some of his friends about what led to the brutal attack.
The incident near a school soccer field was so violent that 13-year-old David Muneton needed reconstructive surgery to his face to correct several broken bones.
His friends at the Janis Dismus Middle School in Englewood are stunned.
"It's so hard. … I'm his best friend," Denise Melendez said before breaking down in tears.
Police have arrested seven students from both the middle school and high school, charging them with aggravated assault. The youngest one is just 12 years old.
Investigators said the teenagers jumped Muneton on Friday as he walked home from school to get back at him for an earlier incident during which the eighth-grader accidentally hit a girl with a basketball.
The superintendent said the girl, who has also been charged, led the boys to Muneton, saying "He's the one."
"We do know that after the girl made the comment one of the people, the boys, who was with him immediately punched him," Superintendent Dr. Richard Segall said.
Students at the middle school have made a get well card for the 13-year-old -- all of them outraged over what happened.
"He really didn't deserve to get beat up like that because he really didn't do anything and it wasn't intentional that he hit her with a ball," student Michael Bailey said.
"If I was there Ii would have told someone," student Emanuel Doughtery added.
"I wrote I hope he gets better soon," said student Katherine Saldarriga.
Muneton is recovering at Englewood Hospital. His brother told CBS 2 HD his condition is improving. The assistant principal said the youngster is a model student.
"He is a wonderful young man, actually one of our students who made the honor roll this quarter," Daniella Bailey said.
As these kids try to make sense of what happened all seven students arrested have been suspended. This coming as police was looking to charge four more teenagers.
Three of the students charged remain at the juvenile detention center in Paramus, while the rest have been released to their parents -- two of them required to wear ankle bracelets.
That’s just it. There’s no reason NOT to beat a kid to death in these communities.
No, feral kids.
I’m referring to your silly assertion that video games are the cause of this attack, of course.
Obfuscation isn’t a defense, it’s an evasion.
Show me where I said that. I’m still waiting.
I thought Dismus was the patron saint of thieves, not murderous mauraders.
Wouldn't Saint Horridus be a more appropriate name for the prison school?
The comments are, well... long low whistle.
We’re sitting on a powder keg. As always the questions are: who benefits form such a state of affairs? And do they realize just how fast and how far things will spin out of their control?
If it were my kid, there would have already been a population decrease in NJ, by at least 7.
You know full well where you said it.
Again with the obfuscation tactics. If you don’t want to admit your ignorance, that’s perfectly fine: it’s on full display as it stands.
So the fact that I didn’t say it is irrelevant to you. It’s the seriousness of the charge that counts. Got it.
I was born in '44 and I do not recall any instances of the vilification of comic books. Who did it?
I used to wrestle inner city kids from the suburbs of Cleveland.
A controlled level playing field does a lot to promote fairness.
But they would try to cheat all the time by putting Sulfa8 on their heads and crap. I would demand that the officials made them go wash that crap out.
Careful. You may be charged with a hate crime for asking.
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We’ve come full circle.
Keep digging that hole.
Either you mixed up your reference or you misread my post.
The victim is white....the animals who attacked are black. Nothing to see here...move along folks.
Are you ready to apologize for lying about me yet? Or are you going to just keep repeating the lies? Of course, you could always just post your evidence. ROFLMAO
One guy got do the match with the sulfa8 on his head after my protests. I head butted him right in the eye coming off a headlock. Whoops! I slipped!
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