Crowd Beats Babysitter After Seeing Hidden Video

http://www.local6.com ^ | Updated: 9:27 a.m. EDT August 1, 2002

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Crowd Beats Babysitter After Seeing Hidden Video

Camera Allegedly Films Woman Hitting Children

A Brazilian babysitter who was filmed by a hidden camera allegedly hitting two babies was attacked by a mob of residents after a television station aired the video, according to a Local 6 News report.

Divina Elaine Leite, 27, was reportedly videotaped hitting a 2-year-old and 6-month-old baby at their home in Goianian, Brazil.

The children's father, Joao Batista Barbosa Da Silva, installed the camera after he realized that his children were unusually aggressive and had bruises on their bodies.

When Da Silva saw the video of Leite allegedly beating his children, he was shocked.

He took the tape to local police but did not receive immediate help. So, he then delivered it to a TV station.

When local residents saw the hidden video on television, they attacked the babysitter in the street.

An amateur video camera caught a man drop kicking the woman and several other people punching her in the face. Leite managed to run away.

Police later filed a complaint against the babysitter.

[SauronOfMordor]

I'd give him an 8 for form...

[Amore]

Good point on what a "drop kick" really is. I was sitting here wondering how exactly someone would do that. I mean, I know it's POSSIBLE, say, for someone like The Rock to do to a grown adult, but it certainly wouldn't be easy!

[Amore]

Ah, I guess the Rock really COULD do a drop kick easily. I suppose those of us who were raised on football and not wrestling were understandably confused.

BTW, anyone seen a post on the current highway stand-off in Columbus Ohio? I know there has to be a post here somewhere, but what with the new, improved FR I can't seem to find it!

[Tancred]

There's a martial art in Brazil called capoeira, developed originally by slaves (lots more brought there in the old days) where they use lots of kicks (since hands were usually shackled). It's pretty effective from what I've heard, although the guy in the picture may or may not be a practitioner.

[HELLRAISER II]

Ever hear of Capoera? I probably don't have the spelling right but it's a type of Brazilian Martial Arts. But I have to applaud the reaction by the people upon hearing what she had done. If it had been in America, some Psychiatrist would have been on the T.V. immediately taking up for and giving reasons why she wasn't responsible.

[mindprism.com]

But here in America we have no right to exact justice in this way. Too bad since this is the best way to fight crime there is. It's local and swift. Peer pressure so to speak.

What you say is 'true' but consider this:

Does justice or righteousness cower from threat of retribution?

If I do not recieve justice from the system, I retain the right to extract it myself and will do so REGARDLESS OF THE CONSEQUENCES.

True and heartfelt righteousness knows no intimidation and refuses to be put on a cost/benefit scale.

[blau993]

I had never heard of Capoera. I just assumed this guy was probably a good soccer player (lots of those in Brazil). He did give her quite a shot.

[Khepera]

Does justice or righteousness cower from threat of retribution?

I believe that many times it does.

[wallcrawlr]

Vigilante justice.

It warms my heart.

[Zack Nguyen]

I understand that in Brazil they do a lot of kick-dancing, particularly during carnival time. Looks like that youngster is an expert.

[Delbert]

Man thats a brutal picture...he's a real tuff guy...flying side kick on a woman....but she's a real tuff girl...betaing up on babies. Sometimes bad karma can be a beeeeyatch!

[HELLRAISER II]

I first heard of it in a movie called Band of the hand and I've also read about it in some of my Martial Arts & Kung Fu magazines. It's a little different from from your average Kung Fu, lot's of low spinning & kicks.

[ValerieUSA]

Group stomps man, 39, to death

Fri Aug 2, 7:36 AM ET
By DEANNA BOYD, Star-Telegram Staff Writer

FORT WORTH - A group of men in a "mob mentality" stomped a 39-year-old homeless man to death Wednesday night as onlookers stood by refusing to help the defenseless victim, police said.

"This is not your typical homicide," Sgt. Dave Stamp said. "It's sad that apparently there were people there who could have intervened and chose not to. Hopefully our investigation will determine why."

No arrests had been made by Thursday night.

The incident occurred about 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Ripley Arnold apartment complex after the victim got into an argument with one man and was attacked by several others, Stamp said.

[HELLRAISER II]

It's a shame that you & I both are thinking the same thing about Vigilante's. But quite honestly in todays society, justice doesn't always come from the law, sometimes if you want justice you have to take it yourself. Again what a shame.

[HELLRAISER II]

Again it's called Capoera, it's kind of funky. But it works.

[HELLRAISER II]

I don't want to give the wrong impression that mob mentality is the way to go, but in some instances I would have to say that if they want justice. It's the only way their going to get it. Look at O.J. Simpson or that lady that killed her own 5 children, those kids and O.J.'s wife scream for vengance & they have received none.

[mindprism.com]

Does justice or righteousness cower from threat of retribution?

I believe that many times it does.

And there lies the soil in which all evil grows:

Thinking is man's only basic virtue, from which all others proceed.
And his basic vice, the source of all his evils,
is that nameless act which all of you practice,
but struggle never to admit:
the act of blanking out,
the willful suspension of one's consciousness,
the refusal to think -- not blindness,
but the refusal to see; not ignorance,
but the refusal to know.
It is the act of unfocusing your mind and inducing an inner fog
to escape the responsibility of judgment --
on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it,
that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict "It is."
Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence,
an attempt to wipe out reality.
But existence exists; reality is not wiped out, it will merely wipe out the wiper.
By refusing to say "It is," you are refusing to say "I am."
By suspending your judgment, you are negating your person.
When a man declares: "Who am I to know?" -- he is declaring: "Who am I to live?"

"There is only one thing you can do when faced with a free man -- kill him."

People need to stop responding to threats in the fashion they do, once you start being pragmatic when faced with a threat you have begun to comply, and like blackmail you will comply again and again for you have sold your ethics.

If one is faced with a law they truly believe unjust, tell the judge you will not pay, for by doing so you have just sold your principles, tell him you will accept the consequences of holding those principles NO MATTER WHAT THEY ARE.

If fear of ridicule or retribution ties your tongue and keeps you from speaking the truth as you heart knows it -- you have just sold your ability to be righteous and you have tainted your loyalty to that which is good and right, and the next time you see someone ignoring their duty to the truth you are inclined to forgive them, for they are just like you, a sinner.

This is the soil in which evil grows, the threat and the silence and the guilt sweep the world into an apathy in which we absolve ourselves by gesturing to the whole and deeming it hopeless, condemning ourselves to insignificance.

Where once was a man, now slithers a worm, concerned only for himself and what he can grub out of the sewer he, via cowardice, helped create.

The venom begins to form, the disgust, the search for the 'evil ones' who are to blame, who have 'exploited the world' or 'sown lecherous thoughts' or 'those who hate'....

The holy war begins, the alignments of confusion and lies, the human sacrifice meant to eradicate the source of the intangible 'thing' the 'evil' that haunts and corrodes.

A perpetual folly, the excorcism of what cannot be extracted - a void within man.

That void is the insufficient respect for true courage, the lack of adherence to principles no matter the cost. Without that, man is forever on his belly, seeking the security of the womb, and the pleasant dream-state of sleep, of death.

[Khepera]

Great post.

I like it.