A simple message to those kids....
Posted on 04/12/2008 11:50:59 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
BARTOW, Fla. -- One of eight teens accused of taking part in the notorious videotaped "animalistic" beating of another Central Florida teen snickered while a judge issued bail on Friday.
April Cooper, 14, giggled and attempted to hold in her laughter as she was told that she was being held on $36,000 bond, Local 6 News reported. It's not known why Cooper giggled.
A judge set bails ranging from $30,000 to $37,000 for each during their first court appearances.
They also were ordered to stay away from their high school and Internet social networking sites, such as MySpace. The judge also ordered them not to have any contact with the victim or each other.
The accused range in age from 14 to 18. The state attorney's office said all will be tried as adults on charges that include kidnapping.
The judge has ordered everyone involved in the case not to talk to the media. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd called the incident "animalistic" attack when he released the video on Monday.
The videotape of the beating has been viewed widely on national TV and the Internet this week.
Families Seek Protection
Families of the teens accused in the beating have received death threats from across the country after their addresses and phone numbers were posted on the Internet, inside a YouTube video.
The new YouTube video calls out for the public to take action, saying, "let your voices be heard."
The video then posts the girls' names, their phone numbers, addresses and other information.
Local 6 reported that some of the families have spoken with deputies about the possibility of getting protection for their safety.
The six girls are accused of luring Victoria Lindsay to a home so they could videotape her beating over some apparent online "trash talk."
Stephen Schumaker and Zachary Ashley are accused of acting as lookouts during the attack.
Schumaker, the only one of the eight arrested to be released from jail, told Local 6 that his family is receiving death threats from all over the United States.
"I don't see why I'm even in this whole situation," Schumaker said in an interview for Local 6.
The videotaped beating was seen by more than 500,000 people as of Thursday night and prompted e-mails to Local6.com from all over the country.
It was the most-viewed video on YouTube at one point Thursday, Local 6 reported.
Wrong Information Posted Online
Meanwhile, an innocent family was targeted by angry callers after their information was mistakenly posted online.
The couple said they got around 300 angr
y, abusive calls from all over the country Wednesday.
C’mon you are stretching a psychology of a demented Serial Killer to couple of teenage girls trying to be gangsta. This behavior doesn’t make them future serial killers. At worst its lack of adult supervision, combined with media perversion and extreme ADD.
The deserve to be punished, but I hope its not something stupid like 12-15 years. That is doing permanent damage to them.
Unfortunately Florida will try them as adults and while its the adults in these KIDS life who should be on trial.
Florida gave a 12 or 13 year old retarded kid who killed his playmate mimicking WWF life sentence. I think later on they changed that after their was outrage.
A simple message to those kids....
Well, that is definitely a point, but the way things are going these day, judges seem to apply more mercy on the perpetrators than the victim enjoyed. Time will tell. I don’t suppose either one of us would like to run into this pack after they spent 10 years being educated at Greybar U.
All six girls are led up to a door where 12 of the meanest, ugliest, smelliest bull dyke prisoners they could find are waiting for them. The first one is led in while the other 5 watch. The female prisoners slap and beat the living tar out of the girl for 2 minutes. Then the next one comes in, and so on so forth. Hell, bring the two guys involved along for the embarrassment. Maybe then they will see why the nation is outraged at their violent, stupid and evi acts.
Throw the book at them!
They need to be made examples that this is not tolerated.
I don’t care how young they are. There is no remorse and one in particular finds setting bail funny.
Sorry, they are evil kids. They are ALSO extremely stupid.
“You won’t believe this:
On the noon news here in Orlando, they said Dr. Phil bailed one of the girls out and will pay for her attorney.”
I would.
Dr. Phill likes ratings and probably has a deal with the freak. He’s a leftist. For awhile he was Oprah’s shrink. Dr. Phil sees $$$$$$$$.
I'm voting both evil and extra-stupid.
If they are “evil” then what category does Hitler fit in? Or are these kids at par in evildom with him?
A few months ago in Florida, two teenage girls stole money from Girl Scouts selling cookies at a Publix. They returned to the scene of the crime the next day and got caught. One of the thugs said on TV I’m not sorry I did it, I’m sorry I got caught.
The kids deserve to be tried as adults. I hope they get a long sentence. They obviously aren’t taking this seriously. They need to be b1tch-slapped hard now to have any hope of them becoming decent people and decent citizens. To even think about planning this, but actually going through with it, shows what bad individuals they are. Plus they are extremely stupid (and therefore even more dangerous) kids.
Don’t need anymore limp-wristed apologists for young criminals. It’s because nothing is expected of them and that people have made excuses for them their entire lives, is how they get to be the way they are.
Did she also spin her head around while vomiting pea soup?
If you are thinking of the case I think you are, it was a 14 year old boy who killed a little girl while doing “wrestling moves he learned on TV”. The boy was released after Jeb Bush interferred, and was arrested a few years later for robbery with a gun.
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(Revelation 17:1-18)
As long as you are Hot and can make a story, about anything, you are destined for ‘Celebrity’ in this F’d up, oversexed, mass cultured, amoral, self-serving and no consequences Society. (There, I got that off my chest! /rant)
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He wasn't "retarded," and I believe he has since violated his parole/probation, and is back in the care of the state. Like we didn't know THAT was going to happen.
Your apologetics for violent teenage criminals is disgusting.
Looking at the tape, it appears that one of the girls is wearing a Hustler t-shirt (the red shirt).
“The deserve to be punished, but I hope its not something stupid like 12-15 years.”
What if the victim was your kid?
Remember - the victim was beaten unconscious. When she came around again - they resumed the beating.
They could easily have injured her brain.
The victim is lucky she didn’t suffer a fatal injury.
“That is doing permanent damage to them.”
They have damaged their victim, and if the damage isn’t permanent - that is very fortunate for the victim (no thanks to her attackers).
Just because they were lucky enough not to have managed to kill her does not mean they should be shown any leniency.
You’re an absolute liberal idiot. Liberal always bring up Hitler when they don’t know how to argue. SUrprised you also idn’t bring up the tired “It’s My body, I can do what I want with it” and “THis will turn back the hands of the clock” crap.
Moron, I will spell it out for you. What they did was evil. Comparing it to Hitler is idiotic. What, if some bad act doesn’t rise to the level of Hitler’s atrocities, we cannot call it evil?
The degree of evil is not the same, no kidding. But what they did was evil, it was evil intentions and evil actions.
Wow, you just completely stun me at the stupidity of your argument. I did not think it existed to this degree on FR.
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