I think that the owner of the house should also have to serve jail time. All the kids at the house should get the maximum sentence. I watched this on Grata, and it sickened me to see this. I have two daughters, and if one of them were the victim - and the ones on the tape did not get maximum jail time for this offense I would hunt them down and beat the living crap out of them and their parents. America is really going to hell in a hand basket. And we think we are the fix to other countries problems.

I think that those grils need to sirve max time! They set it up. they called the victim and ASKED her to come home. The girl who lived with the victim helped, the atackers. those girls need conuasling.

It’s sad to see that this happens so often. I have two children of my own and it kills me that this is the stuff they are growing up around. When this happens over something as small as MySpace and stuff like that, it makes me wonder how people are going to react to bigger issued such as race and gender. My children are mixed, and I often fear that they are going to catch hell in school because of it just because I saw alot of that growing up, and with teen violence getting worse and worse, it puts the idea of homeschool in my head. Those teens should not be let off easy at all. They should get maximum punishment with eligability for parole ONLY if they go through extensive treatment and counceling to remove those violent tendency. If they do get out of jail, they should be labeled just like they label sex offenders. There should be an assault and battery registry.

Like many of you, I agree with the punishment. There is nothing that will justify what these girls did to another young girl. My thought though.. where are thier parents? I know we can’t monitor every step but do you think thier parents should be questioned too? How are they reacting to this? One of the girls mother made a statement pretty much supporting her daughter saying if the victim was going to say bad things then she should have backed her story up! I was in shock!!!

The internet for sure gives us the freedom to do pretty much whatever we want. I think Congress needs to step in and do something about teen violence… zero tolerance regardless of the situation. You assault someone..an automatic year in a detention facility (considering the severity of course).

Come on guys this is rediculous. You all want to give the maximum penalty to a bunch of teenagers with raging horomones. Teenagers are violent!! They always have been and they always will be. They will be sneaky and underhanded. They are at the mercy of their bodies. The parents should have been more attentive. It seems funny to m that you want put teenage girls in prison during the most important years of their lives instead of getting them help and providing them with a better education. Make them do massive ammounts of community service or something and have them under constant supervision. Spend more time trying to jail murderers and child molesters than angry kids and we might get somewhere in this country.

I nt at least, do not se why.. well, according to the first amendment at least, anybody could NOT telll his/her side of his/her story… it SHOCKS some people ? WHY by Golly… may be it IS the pint NO?????? HOW else can WE express our dolences ??? THINK , if you still can… MY OPINION and my tale of it… after alll. that OIS what democracy is about… or did I get it WRONG ?

This more and more prevalent behavior reminds me of what the prophet Jeremiah said: “Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush.” (Jer. 6:15) People should not be surprised this is happening. It is obvious people have always been violent. But if, as one poster has said, the teenage years are a person’s most important, these viscious people are squandering them. I blame these girls’ parents as well. What is it with these parents who defend the abhorrent behavior of their children? They are also depraved.

This case is important because treating these kids leniently would set a dangerous precedent for youtube hoodlums everywhere - there are much more horrible acts than that could be done and filmed in the name of internet infamy. I don’t think they should be tried as adults but they need to serve to sit out the rest of the “best years of their lives” in juvenile. We can’t be soft on this kind of disgusting, voyueristic behavior.

It’s not just the crime (kidnapping, assault) but the fact that they didn’t feel any need to conceal their identities, and even more unbelievable they thought that by posting their crime they would gain status in the eyes of their friends. Incredible.

It’s not really incredible when you look at the violent, sadistic garbage on the shelves of our video stores. Combine that with a generation of parents who don’t supervise their kids, don’t monitor what their kids do on-line or send out from their cell phones (and I don’t mean occasionally, I mean all the time), can’t tell them “no” and let them think the world revolves around them. These kids planned this out and exececuted it completely unafraid that there might be consequences from their parents, so now law enforcement has to pick up where they left off. Part of self-control is resisting the basic urge to seek revenge.

As long as there is a public (even kids) to watch this, people will create and film these situations. What about the kids parents? What did they teach them (growing up) that this would be even remotely ok?

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Phrozen, judging by the viciousness of the attack and the fact that it was pre-meditated I think community service is ridiculous. Their behavior was criminal, not just reprehensible. Consequences change behavior, they need to pay a criminal price for their attack. They can get some counseling when they get out of jail.

i think all this talk about the ch8ildrens parents is ridiculous…these are teenagers and not totlers…

they are ld enough to go out by themselves and to suggest the parents should be held accountable is retarded..

the kids should get the max…and i agree with the first poster 100%…,if it had been my daughter…i am afraid those girls would have been hunted down and beaten like they were men…

To Phrozen: I’m a teenager. I’m not in any way, shape, or form violent or aggressive like that. Most teenagers are not. They are not at the mercy of their bodies. They had a choice, and they chose to wreck this poor girl’s life and face. There is simply no justification, no excuse for what they did. She’s humiliated and I doubt she’ll ever go back to school, return to her old friends, or get over the trauma of this. What about HER most important years? They gave up their important years when they decided to act like retarded animals. They need to be punished. Their parents are obviously morons or they would have seen this going on. The schools never care, let’s be honest. And community service ain’t gonna do it. The answer is jailtime to prevent escalation and make them pay for what they’ve done for some stupid YouTube video.

Phrozen, it is the very act of premeditated and intricately planned violence that is absolutely and utterly abhorrent. And, where do you get the concept that teenagers are violent? I was a teenager, and all my friends were teenagers. We did many things that were not necessarily considered within normal societal guidlines, but NOT ONE of them involved violence upon another person. None of us, ever. Strange, that you think this is NORMAL behavior, and belies the very root of the problem. Until violence for the sake of violence is looked upon with horror and disgust (which it should), then opinions such as your PROMOTE, CONDONE, and actually CREATE violence within others.

<<<<<<<<<<<<<Comment by Phrozen
April 25th, 2008 at 1:53 pm

Come on guys this is rediculous. You all want to give the maximum penalty to a bunch of teenagers with raging horomones. Teenagers are violent!! They always have been and they always will be. They will be sneaky and underhanded. They are at the mercy of their bodies. The parents should have been more attentive. It seems funny to m that you want put teenage girls in prison during the most important years of their lives instead of getting them help and providing them with a better education. Make them do massive ammounts of community service or something and have them under constant supervision. Spend more time trying to jail murderers and child molesters than angry kids and we might get somewhere in this country.

Phrozen, while I hate starting comments off with insults, it cant be helped in this case. Just how stupid are you? How long has it been since you’ve been a teenager? Oddly enough I can remember my teenage years pretty clearly and while I might remember a school yard fight or 2 in all of my time in Jr High and High School, none of it EVER approached this level of violence.

Teenagers arent at the mercy of their bodies nor are they inherently violent, what kind of friends did you have because I can’t think of a single friend of mine growing up that would of done anything even close to this level of violence.

You were a teenager once, did you and a group of your friends ever decide to lure someone over to your house, proceed to beat the crap out of them and keep them from leaving? How many teenage girls did you knock unconscious while growing up, hrm, let me count how many times I did that… Oh yeah, NONE.

when these 6 girls and 2 boys get before the judge, I feel they should all be convicted as charged.
They all knew what was happing, not one of the stepped in to stop it, not one of them called 911
for her help, a quick check would show all or most of them had a cell phone to do so, all kept
quiet about what happened. only a mistake made it public. They all are equally guilty!!!!

Not only reprehensible, but incredibly sad. Parents, teachers, others in authority - where were they? These girls didn’t decide to do this out of the blue. I’m sure there were signs that something was going to blow.

What about the absolutely destroyed trust of the girl who was the victim? This took place at a “friend’s” house!? Will she ever learn to trust someone to be a friend again?

The mother who “defended” her daughter’s place in this assault - what kind of denial is she in? If she is honest with herself there’s no way she can even begin to defend what happened. So how can this person be reached?

If anything “positive” has come out of this, it’s that we’re now aware that teenage violence has incredibly escalated since the time I was a teen in the 70s. AND that it’s not limited to boys. Now that we know, what can we do?

Something like monitor our own children more carefully when they’re young, talk with them about what it means to direct anger and frustration in to acceptable and positive outlets. Stay close to them as parents not “older friends”. Let them know there are limits and you’ll enforce them whether or not the child likes it. Consistency, empathy, understanding, compassion for the child along with discipline when required makes for responsible, compassionate, sane adults.

Had this horrible beating occurred during my teen years and before then, the savage girls would have been jailed and no bail set. Upon conviction, they would serve hard time and their parents would be so ashamed that they would leave town or hide their heads when leaving their homes. The school where I attended would also be ashamed that their curriculum did not include decent, moral behavior.

I make no excuse for the girls savage behavior, but I believe many parents and schools are also responsible. I especially think the parent that defended her daughter in such an unbecoming manner should be very aware that she placed her child in danger of being physically damaged and/or killed by her daughter’s next victim — yes, I believe beatings shall again occur if her daughter and the other girls aren’t severely punished via other than community service and/or counseling — which all the girls need as well as severe punishment — the parents need counseling also.

The girl that was beaten should be the one Phrozen “moans” for. Where is his is concern for her?

If that were my daughter who was attacked like that, I would definitely press charges and advocate for the stiffest sentence posible. But at the end of the day, I would turn this into a learning experience for my daughter. What did you learn from this? Did you learn not to antagonize a bunch of idiots? Did you learn that words (as silly as they may be) can land you in a bad situation?

I am not condoning the behavior of these bullies in any way, shape or form. However, these kids need to realize that trash talking can get you beat up. I have a thirteen year old daughter and this scared the crap out of me. When my daughter and I discussed this, I pointed out to her that she cannot leave herself open to this kind of retaliation by encouraging it. If you talk trash about beating someone up, there is a chance that your target may be a thug and come after you with evething she has.

Instead of focusing on the end result, we, as parents, need to get to the root cause of this problem and take steps to keep our children from getting caught up.

Kant aneeone spell theese day’s,just reading any posts on the net these days tells me the real problem might just be a total lack of education.It’s absolutely pathetic to me that nobody can even spell simple words,but at the same time try to come off as intelligent….sad,really really sad.

My 21 year old son has said he’s seeing this alot in both teenagers and young adults who are gangster wannabes, Instead finding positive ways to resolve their problems, the video games are teaching that violence works best, but those who use it most are really just bullys who are a fraid of an honest fair fight. I fully agree with my son when he’s pointed out that most of the crap that starts fights are just bullies looking for an excuse to take their anger out on some one who either dose not know how to fight or is too scared to.. But this crap needs to stop now.

My comment is in response to the teenager who wrote the comment above. Your comment was very refreshing to read. I agree with you wholeheartedly. You also have great grammar compared to all the other postings, which I am so happy to see that not all teenagers are allowing text messaging to dissolve all grammar and spelling lessons.

All of the girls involved should be punished, maximum sentence, period.

I think that at the age these girls were at should know what is right and what is wrong. like others i do wonder where were their parents in all this? why werent they with their children and showing them and teaching them how to be good human beings. what they did was calculated and totally discusting. and i dont think help would do any good for them. they probably think that they were right and nothing will change their minds. even of of their mother’s stated ”. . .well she should have been able to back up what she wrote on myspace. . ” now i wonder why the girls turned to violence. if this is what their parents were teaching them, then no wonder that girl got beaten.

If teens had parents they could respect, they would respect them and do what they’re told. I know when I was a teen I had fearful respect for my parents and I would have feared their punishment worse than any legal repercussions. To this day I have the utmost respect for my parents and value their input above anyone else’s even though I’m an adult.

If parents were first-of-all respect-worthy and secondly demanded respect, crap like this wouldn’t happen. The problems that are surfacing with this generation began with the prior generation and their complete lack of respect for authority dating back to the 60’s.