On the tape you see the girls pummeling their victim while taunting her, cursing at her and telling her to fight back. The girl never struck back. Instead she tried to protect herself with her arms and hands. The victim has bruises all over her face and body, a concussion and damage to her ear and eye, but she is expected to recover.

The assault took place in the home of one of the attacker’s grandmother (who was at work at the time). The grandmother said this has been hard on all of them because her home has been vandalized and their family has been threatened. All I can say to that is, “would you like some cheese with that whine?”

I hate to be so callous towards a grandmother, but you’ve got to be kidding me. Maybe if the families came out and apologized for the actions of their children and took responsibility for this tragedy, people would be more sympathetic to their situation. But the families aren’t doing that. In fact many of the parents of the attackers are basically making excuses for their kids. And that is just disgusting.

One of the mothers had the nerve to say the victim provoked the attack by threatening and insulting the girls on My Space. Seriously?!? There is not one single thing a person could write on MySpace that deserves a beat down like this girl got.

The mother of the eighteen-year-old young man said, “[The boys] weren’t really involved, I don’t know. I’m just overwhelmed by all of it. I don’t know why the girls have them involved.” But the boys were involved. They stood outside as the lookouts. The girls didn’t twist their arms. They could have left at any time. They could have called the police at any time. They could have gone to a neighbor for help at any time. They did nothing to help that girl. Granted they didn’t hit her themselves, but they sure didn’t stop it.

Another mother said her daughter warned the girl not to go in the house. When asked if she thought her daughter should have also called 9-1-1 she said, “My daughter should have picked up the phone and called the police. Yes, she did warn this girl not to go in the house, but I do believe my daughter should have called the police,” Notice how she got another dig in about how her daughter had warned the victim? She might as well have said, “Yes, she should have called the police BUT she did warn her and the girl went in anyway.”

Heck why don’t the parents just come out and say what they’re really thinking. They are really thinking the girl deserved it because she was being mean to their daughters on MySpace. Plus she was warned and went in to the house anyway.

This mother continued on saying the incident is being overblown by the police. She said, “First of all, the tape that was released is only three minutes long. That was the worst of it. My daughter is the one who turned the video tape over to the sheriff’s department for evidence. My daughter turned it over to them.”

The police said the beating lasted for 30 minutes. Prior to those three minutes the girl was ambushed in the bedroom where she was punched and had her head slammed in to the wall until she was unconscious. That sounds pretty bad to me. I seriously doubt the three minutes released was the worst of it.

Plus there goes the mother again saying her daughter turned over the tape, like her daughter is some hero for that. This was not something that happened in the heat of the moment. This was a planned attack. It was her daughter’s grandmother’s house. The daughter obviously was part of the planning. She was not some naive, young girl who was at the wrong place at the wrong time. She knew exactly what was going to happen and did nothing to stop it.

And these teenagers are not at all remorseful. When they were arrested they joked about not being able to go to the beach this spring break. One girl asked if she would be out in time to go to cheerleading practice. They clearly have no idea how much trouble they are in.

Since this happened many news outlets have asked if MySpace and YouTube are to blame for this violence. Would the girls not have done this if there was no YouTube for them to post the video to? Would this have never happened if there was no MySpace for the victim to post insults on?

Girls have been insulting each other for years. Long before the internet entered our homes. There’s always a girl who is prettier, has more friends, gets better grades, has a better boyfriend, or whatever else. There is always a girl who looked at another girl’s boyfriend wrong or touched his hand or smiled at him and a girl who doesn’t like it. Girl fights have been around a really long time. There were several girl fights when I was in high school. There would be fights today without MySpace and YouTube.

It’s ridiculous that the media keeps trying to find somebody to blame for tragedies like this. In my day it was heavy metal. Then it was violent movies. Then video games. Now it’s MySpace and YouTube. How about blaming these eight kids. And possibly their parents who obviously struggle with what’s right and what’s wrong.

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