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.
Looking over the comments at the news site, there’s a storm coming to New Jersey. It will not be pretty.
Pretty nearly so ..... although he never related everything that happened - in this new case it was a one-time thing, in his case it was on-going ....
Good to see by those comments there normal Americans living there. Those that beat that boy are savages and should be put down like the savages they are.
I posted my prior comment when I just looked over the first page or so of comments. I've since read ALL the comments at the CBS affiliate site.
When the average comment at a news site would get deleted at StormFront for being too inflammatory, you KNOW a BAD storm is coming!
Did you notice who the "artist" was?
He is a teacher at that school.
Holy race war Batman! The 88’s were thick on that one...
I always carry heat when I go anywhere near a high school, regardless of time of day. If any of them try anything violent, I unload. Then I decide if I should bother calling the cops.
I only wish shooting lessons were mandatory in high school. Or for that matter, military service.
I think what bothers me the most is the clear injustice of it all.
I have prayed to God, asking Him to put forgiveness in my heart. If I don't have a forgiving heart, I will not be forgiven myself.
But, I struggle with the injustice. There are 1,000 voices in the media and the "black community" that cry out and make a big show of every racial slight, perceived, or imagined.
For a white child, however, there is silence, or worse by the MSM and "black leaders" - - covert approval.
God hates injustice:
For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity” (Isaiah 61:8)
I guess that is why this bothers me so much.
I think the election of zero has emboldened a lot of people. That’s why my wife now carries concealed (deep south TX). I’m encouraging my secretary and office manager to get the means to protect themselves.
I bet 10,000,000 its a gang of blacks. Like the Chicago killing a few months ago.
My high school used to play in the same leagues as Englewood High, and we looked forwar to road trips to that school as much as we would have looked forward to road trips to Detroit.
Has Obamma invited them over for a beer yet?
I think, number 1, its pretty clear....uhhhhhhh.....that this 8th grader.......uhhhhhh.....David Muneton......acted STUPIDLY by touching that girls basketball. But....ahhh...uhhhh...see this as a "teachable moment" for white people.
Is this a middle class area? It seems to me that almost of these school outrage stories come from schools that would be considered “good”.
There are schools that are sooooo violent, dysfunctional, and abusive that it would be better for the child **never** to attend. I **seriously** mean it. It would be better for the child to have no education whatsoever than to every step foot in these cesspools.
This school is one of them....and.....when school opens after the Christmas STUPID parents will still send their kids.
By the way...No mention of the race of the attackers. That means they are black.
BINGO!
Cliques are nothing more than prison protection gangs.
So, you make a claim, and when pressed to substantiate it, you then say you never made the claim in the first place.
About what I’d expect.
I am afraid that if/when that storm does hit New Jersey, we all had best be prepared to either run for cover, or stand and fight. You are absolutely correct, it will not be pretty - anywhere.
An old family friend of ours used to tell me a story from back in the 1950s. He was a small, skinny white kid in a mostly-black school in New York City, and a couple of black thugs who had no business even being in the school (they were 15+ and were "students" in his 7th-grade class) used to bully him every day. His father had died at a young age and his mother was doing her best to raise him by herself, and there wasn't much she could do at all. The school administration was no help, either.
It got to the point where he would leave home in the morning to walk to school, but he'd wander around the neighborhood for a while and then walk back home after his mother had left for work. He was locked out of the house, so he'd hang around in his garage all day until school was out.
One day his older brother came home -- unexpectedly -- from the Army on leave. He had a friend with him from the Army . . . the guy was a redneck from Alabama or Mississippi. At first his older brother was mad at him for playing hooky, but when the young kid told him what was happening he was more understanding. The other guy, though, had a rather strange reaction.
"You gawt a couple a n!##ers beatin' ya up at school?" he asked -- almost delighted.
The two older guys grabbed bats from the family's pile of sports equipment in the garage, and the three of them marched over to the school. They walked right down the hallway to the kid's classroom and went in. The teacher got mad and tried to tell them to leave, but the older guys would have none of it. The older brother shoved the teacher across the room and locked him in the supply closet.
"Which are the n!##ers that have been beatin' you up?!" the redneck yelled.
The kid didn't even have time to answer, because the two thugs jumped up out of their seats and tried to climb out the window. The redneck Army dude beat the sh!t out of both of them with the bat he was carrying, and left them lying on the floor all bruised and battered as the three of them walked calmly out of the school building.
Nobody ever saw those two thugs again. And that kid never had a problem for the rest of his life in public school, either.
LOL - Are you referring to the claim that YOU made? I have no obligation to defend YOUR claim.
When did schoolyard spats or fistfights turn into cold-blooded gang attacks?
This is just pure, uncontrolled group rage, and disturbing on many levels...
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