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Teenage Caregivers Laugh, Film Themselves Beating 98-Year-Old Woman
Big Government (Breitbart) ^ | March 16, 2014 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 03/17/2014 5:44:09 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Two teenage nurses laughed and filmed themselves as they beat a 98-year-old nursing home resident in St. Charles, Illinois.

According to the Chicago Tribune, Chemyra Barnett and Jacqueline Santos – both 18-years old – struck an elderly woman with dementia, took video of the attack, and shared the video with friends.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: beating; chemyrabarnett; jacquelinesantos; nursinghome
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Both were charged 'with one count of aggravated battery of a person older than 60... and one count of illegal video taping.' They were released on a bond of $15,000 each.

I wonder if they'd been caught abusing animals if the punishment would have been harsher...

41 posted on 03/17/2014 8:14:08 PM PDT by Bon of Babble (Don't want to brag...but I can still fit into the earrings I wore in high school!!)
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To: sarasmom

Cameras are exactly what is needed.

In the schools, we have cameras in all of the halls and outside areas, on the buses, in the cafeteria, etc. and it helps...a lot.

Day cares have cameras on the kiddies 100% of the time to ward of claims of child abuse. Even the kennel my dog goes to when we’re on vacation has 24 hour cameras that I can call up on my phone or computer to see what my pooches are doing and how they’re being treated.

All that’s left is to put cameras in the classrooms — which I’m for, BTW, and I’m a teacher. Bring ‘em on in!! Let the parents and community see what goes on in a typical high school classroom every day...


42 posted on 03/17/2014 8:17:45 PM PDT by Bon of Babble (Don't want to brag...but I can still fit into the earrings I wore in high school!!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Too stupid to live, let alone reproduce: execute with extreme prejudice in the town square.


43 posted on 03/17/2014 8:25:00 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A major problem with today’s kids....lack of empathy. comes from seeing too much violence.


44 posted on 03/17/2014 8:30:33 PM PDT by huldah1776
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“A major problem with today’s kids....lack of empathy. comes from seeing too much violence.”

Also comes from being raised for much of their lives by people other than their parents (with both parents working, broken homes and such).


45 posted on 03/17/2014 10:03:39 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Bon of Babble

I have thought cameras would be a good idea, too. The only problem is the privacy issue. Cameras would also protect workers from being falsely accused of something.


46 posted on 03/18/2014 3:44:55 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I probably would not laugh if I WAS there.

I take things too seriously, I guess.


Me neither. The subtle message of the ol’ “I guess you had to be there” line is that it’s not funny. ;-)

Now, if I was a ferel yout and utterly amoral, I could develop an attitude where it would be hilarious. And this is the real issue. These people are dangerous, not least because when you see them in public you think they are domesticated like the rest of us. They are not. They are like a pack of wolves roving through the neighborhood picking off the household pets.

They should be treated as such.


47 posted on 03/18/2014 5:16:10 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Bon of Babble
Glad at least one other person agrees!

Violence against helpless and/or mentally ill elderly people in care homes is not “new”.

Sick, evil individuals gravitate to the places they can indulge their sick, evil, deviant urges.
Just as kind, good people also gravitate to positions where they can indulge their own urges to be kind and helpfull, and make a positive difference in life through their work.

I'm not advocating cameras everywhere...but where people are in the most vulnerable positions for potential abuse, yes I think cameras can prevent a lot of the evil that has been allowed to fester unreported and unacknowledged, for lack of legal proof.

Add all prisons,hospitals and government offices to the list.

The people paid to supervise, aren't supervising anymore.
Scatter a few concealed cameras around and see what really happens....

48 posted on 03/19/2014 7:17:01 PM PDT by sarasmom (Extortion 17. A large number of Navy SEALs died on that mission. Ask why.)
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