Posted on 09/08/2006 10:35:37 AM PDT by Froufrou
It began with a crush, police said, and turned into one of the most shocking crimes in Milwaukee's long, violent summer: an 11-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by as many as 20 boys while a 16-year-old girl she was romantically interested in watched and coached her. The 16-year-old and a 15-year-old boy have been charged in juvenile court in the alleged attack, which authorities said took place Monday in a house on the city's north side. The teenage girl's 40-year-old uncle might also be charged, authorities said. The youth's names were not released because of their ages. Investigators are still attempting to identify and locate the boys who were in the house. "We're dealing with a lot of nicknames, so we're trying to track down these people," said prosecutor Matthew Torbenson. The 11-year-old girl told police she was interested in the teenage girl, who looked and dressed like a boy, authorities said in court records. She and two friends went to the teen's house, where the child performed oral sex on three teenage boys, the court records said. The teenage girl's 40-year-old uncle admitted he also had sex with the 11-year-old and told police that his niece was coaching the child, the records said.
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Thanks for pointing that out - I hadn't noticed. I could be that they are just following a policy of identifying neither the victim nor the accused by name, or it could be that the name might lead to profiling.
Clinton legacy.
Where, exactly, in California is Bonobo?
Very true and sometimes it has tragic consequences. Prayers for this little girl.
Sadly so...and even more sadly, I believe this happens in other inner cities as well, but goes unreported.
Absolutely.
There's a school of thought that big societal upheavals will occur every 4th generation or so. One look at the idea is in the book, The Fourth Turning.
I think the general idea is that:
* Generation 1 goes through hard times and learns to deal with it.
* Generation 2 is born into the hard times, and carries the lessons forward.
* Generation 3 learns the lessons, but has no direct experience with the hard times that spawned them ... and thus cannot pass the lessons along.
* Generation 4 has not learned the lessons at all, and engage in behavior that sets off hard times.
In rough terms, we're now into the 4th generation of people who've been living in the "Great Society" and the various liberal "root cause" ideas that go along with it.
My amtuer reading of the psychology behind an 11 year old acting out like this is the same. She was desparately seeking a loving relationship and mistook sex for love. Worse yet, it seems either her Uncle or the girl she admired misled her. Truly tragic.
The Uncle should be locked up for LIFE!
Apparently, "the village" was raping her. "It takes a village to rape a child"??? Yuck ... this whole business is incredibly evil.
That is such a travesty!
SOB, you made me laugh so hard I fell off my chair. Well, almost. My skirt was stuck in a groove of the bentwood and I ended up looking like a giant paddle ball game, with the chair smacking me repeatedly amidst the backwide. Whop, whop, whop...get the visual?
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.
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Standing in line with their pants down - kinda like Bubba in front of the interns in the Clintoon Whitehouse.
I share those speculations even though my daughter is grown; I still fear for my 11-yr-old step-granddaughter as if she were mine. If they lived in town, I'd be sure I could collect her from school and make surprise visits, do whatever. It's good to be the parents in the home all the kids hang at. We did and we're glad of it, despite the inconvenience at times. It was worth it. Most of the little ladies turned out fine.
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> Anywhere they can get MTV, this goes on.
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uh... i'll call 'slippery slope' logical fallacy on that one.
i.e. "If you don't like Slippery Slope arguments, you will do poorly in class, drop out of school, commit crimes, go to prison, and die of AIDS."
if MTV is available in your area ..., ..., ..., your eleven year olds are choosing to perform oral sex on gang members to be accepted by them.
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