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CLEARWATER — There was a Jeykll and Hyde quality to Thursday's court proceedings, where three 15-year-old boys pleaded guilty to beating a 13-year-old student on a school bus last month. The boys appeared remorseful and respectful, their heads sometimes bowed. It was all “Yes, sir” and “No, sir,” sometimes in unison, as Circuit Judge Raymond Gross painstakingly asked them a series of questions after their attorneys announced the trio would be pleading guilty in the July 10 beating. But then Assistant State Attorney William Schopper asked that the video of the attack — the one that's gone viral and turned...

Here is video of Fox News' Megyn Kelly and a panel weighing in on the vicious beating of a student on a school bus in Belleville, Illinois. Kelly was very strong that the kids who beat the boy should be punished to the fullest extent of the juvenile laws, not just receive a suspension. She also felt the students on the bus who did nothing to help the boy should receive a stiff penalty as well. . . . (VIDEO)