The assault of a group of six girls on a classmate has people shocked around the U.S., as video of girls brutally beating a classmate, allegedly because she posted some things on the Internet about them, has generated unbelief at the pure hatred and lack of remorse or feeling at all - not only while being carried out, but afterwards as well.
The video below doesn't even show the worst of it, as before the beating being shown, the girl had been knocked unconscious by her assailants.
“The beating you’re seeing is the second beating,” said Florida Sheriff Grady Judd. “She was knocked unconscious prior to this video clip.”
Judd also said the victim, who is 16-years-old, "suffered a concussion, and has hearing loss in her left ear and some loss of vision in her left eye, Judd said.
He has recommended they be tried as adults, although he added it was up to the prosecutors to make that decision.
The charges against Mercades Nichols, 17, Brittini Hardcastle, 17, April Cooper, 14, Cara Murphy, 16, Britney Mayes, 17, Kayla Hassell, 15, Zachary Ashley, 17, and Stephen Schumaker, 18, are for kidnapping, false imprisonment and battery.
After the incident happened, and the assailants were in custody, their response was one of indifference to what happened, according to Judd, “When we had them arrested and in detention, they were laughing and joking, ‘Guess we’re not going to go to the beach on this spring break.’ One girl actually asked our detective, ‘Am I going to be released in time to go to cheerleading practice tomorrow?’”
Hopefully the prosecutors will hit this one hard, and the word gets out that this type of behavior will never be tolerated in our society. Young people and people across America need to be sensitized over this brutish behaviors, and battle against this cancer spreading across the country.
Judd agreed saying about the entire scenario: “Our goal is not only to deal with this issue, but to try to educate parents across the state and across the nation that this is what your children are watching,” he said. “This is what some children are participating in. And we as a society have got to say, ‘This has to stop,’ because if we desensitize our children to this today, then what’s next tomorrow?”
The answer to that question should stir people that really care.
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