Girl Attacked as Students and Parents Cheer, Take Video

[cali]

OAKDALE, Calif. (CBS/KOVR) Crowds of students and parents gathered around to watch an Oakdale High School freshman violently beat her classmate. Instead of calling 911, students whipped out their cell phones to record the attack.

Manita Hazlewood, the mother of the victim, told CBS affiliate KOVR that her daughter didn't have a chance to fight back. "This girl was on top of her slamming her head into the ground," she said.

The flight lasted about 30 seconds but the girl was already badly beaten and suffered a concussion. A mother, who wants to remain anonymous, says she stepped in to help as she witnessed parents cheering on the attacker.

"I was very shocked. These are grown parents. This girl had enough time, and these people were right next to it," said the woman.

The victim's mother told KOVR, "She's traumatized. Not only was she beaten, it was on YouTube; there's video. I got three different versions of it."

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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20001657-504083.html

[louis-t]

1. Teabagger mob mentality.

Republican values.

[RKP5637]

11. EXACTLY!!! This country needs to get a grip on itself or we are going to derail. n/t

[Odin2005]

19. GOING TO? We're already there!!!

:scared:

[RKP5637]

21. Yeah, I was on the edge of saying that, you said it, and I think you are quite correct! n/t

[KittyWampus]

25. Mob Mentality? Yes, Definitely. Not unique to Teabaggers

I deleted video on Youtube cause it had some ugly commentary added. Only just realized. Sorry.

[proteus_lives]

34. Human values.

Sadly.

[ixion]

2. Events like this make me sad.

:(

[Poll_Blind]

5. They should. It means you're psychologically healthy. While we can't...

...change how sick the world is, we can at least take some solace in the fact that we reject that shit.

I know it's an odd point to polish but it's one of the little stones of wisdom I turn over in my pocket as I shuffle through this bizarre world.

PB

[Odin2005]

16. Shit like this make me ANGRY!

:grr:

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. A friend who is a principal told me

a few months ago two 3rd grade girls got into a fight at school. Both were suspended. After school, one of the girls was picked up by her mother who followed the bus the other girl was on and when she got off, the mother told her daughter to get out of the car and beat the shit out of the other girl. And she did while her mother told her to keep hitting her harder.

The bus driver called the cops.

[RKP5637]

12. Isn't Kansas voting or has voted on allowing college students to carry concealed

weapons on campus (or was that MO), something like that... I can't recall all of the details now, but I was shocked to think the college environment might be coming to that... All of this nonsense in schools is insane... and IMO it points right to the parents.

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. Yes I think they talked about that last week

Don't know if it passed though.

[Recursion]

31. I think that's more about VA Tech NT

[Cid_B]

55. I have seen different versions..

Some were for all students of a certain age with a concealed permit. Other versions were for cops and Soldiers.

[sakabatou]

32. What happened to the mom?

[proud2BlibKansan]

41. I don't know

My friend was there too. The cops came and were still trying to settle it when she left. She went to talk to the bus driver and make sure the rest of the kids on the bus got home safely. I never found out if anyone was arrested. She did say that several neighbors also called 911 when they saw this 8 year old girl beating up another girl while her mom cheered her on.

[Liberal_in_LA]

35. Someone's going to jail

[47of74]

4. I hope the parent sues the piss out of the school district

[donco6]

36. It didn't happen at school. n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

42. Who cares? The teachers should all be fired!

[Regret My New Name]

53. FIRED? More like jail time for those teachers... From K to 12...

(not really though)

[Kerrytravelers]

6. What is this society coming to?

As a former classroom teacher, let me tell you, the excuses and behavior that was deemed acceptable by parents that I heard on a continual basis would make your eyes roll back in your head.

I am now an Independent Study Teacher and work with kids who are enrolled in a public school, but do not learn in a traditional classroom setting. Many of my students were harassed and bullied in school. Or, they witnessed it and were traumatized by what they saw.

It just breaks my heart.

[seabeyond]

30. i am continually told it is no different from yesterday. i dont believe it for a sec.

agree with poster, .... we need to quit dismissing all this disrespect. if feeds off everyone from politics, to culture, to cartoons, to religion, to internet.

[MattBaggins]

44. They really need to start going after parents and onlookers

If you cheer someone on who is assaulting someone else; you are an accessory to the crime.

[NotThisTime]

7. This is exactly why kids think it's okay to BULLY OTHERS, their parents are fine with it - no

consequence whatsoever...

[CBHagman]

8. Or, as we saw above, the parents encourage it.

What kind of sick, twisted, spiteful individual follows a school bus and then sics her child on another child?

[RKP5637]

20. Sadly, I think we have many of them. When I watch the teabaggers bully, for example,

I am constantly remained of how low our society has become. I have no idea where it is headed, but I am concerned about the future, especially if this place were to take a hard RW turn with republican majorities embracing the teabagger mentality.

There is nothing in this country that makes it immune from the violence and hatred we have seen throughout history in other countries, and this country when mob mentality starts to rule.

[CBHagman]

33. I'm as sickened by it as you are, but...

...I don't think society sinking low is anything new, including in the U.S. History shows a lot of appalling violence (Consider lynchings, for example).

[RKP5637]

38. Yes, quite true. And the Salem witch trials, lots of things come to mind. I guess

what really gets to me today is the over abundance of hate-media and its popularity. I think it feeds the fires of hatred, etc. It is in many ways historically quite a violent country, now some in the media stoke it for obscene profits.

[CBHagman]

48. And I think it discourages empathy.

If someone's free to make as many attacks as he/she wants, and without consequence, then you get cyberbullies, flamers, and worse. And there's distance as well, and the ability to dehumanize the object of those attacks.

[RKP5637]

50. Very good point!!! n/t

[tblue37]

46. The same sort of person who taunts and berates a man with

Parkinson's. The fact that the victim is vulnerable just makes the bully more determind to abuse him or her.

[xchrom]

9. Modern American life. -- this really is what it looks like.

YouTube and everyting!

[asdjrocky]

10. Why do you always have to post stuff that makes me so sad? nt

[AsahinaKimi]

13. This is really sad ..

People laughing and cheering a guy to jump to his death from a five story building, and now Parents encouraging a teenage brawl. It used to be just obnoxious parents at a little league game, but now this??

This country has some serious issues.

[Odin2005]

14. OMFG. What. The. Fuck? There are NO words...

WTF us wrong with our society? :grr: :cry:

[RKP5637]

23. Frankly, explanations pale to explain it... it has become one F'ed place. One of

my friends was saying recently are we reaching the stage of having to all pack guns to feel remotely safe, are we going back to the wild west days... Each day it becomes a more bizarre and hostile place to live a peaceful and fair life IMO.
:grr: :grr: :grr:

[Hello_Kitty]

15. Another one to add to my bookmarks

Parenthood Makes You A Better Person^TM

[mrs_p]

17. and how are we different

from those that conduct honor beatings/killings in the middle east and afghanistan? this makes me so sad and cynical about humanity.

[stranger81]

22. The girl doing the attacking was on local news last night proclaiming just how much she's NOT sorry.

People watching the video don't know what really happened, she said. She also complained about how unfair it was that this video is being watched all over the country, and that people are trying to make her look bad.

Girl needs a serious reality check, it sounds like.

[KittyWampus]

26. deleted cause of commentary on video

[Initech]

24. WTF is wrong with people???? I'm sick of this crap happening!

[Codeine]

27. This is a daily thing now.

Kids - girls especially - attack smaller or weaker kids with their friends present for the sole purpose of making a cameraphone Youtube video. It's instant middle-school celebrity. My niece says that many of the kids show their parents!

[Beako]

28. That's "All-American values" depicted right there. >_>

Blame the victim. Pick on the weak. I just can't help but tie this to an increasingly conservative country.

When I was growing up in the Seattle Public School system, there was Zero tolerance for bullying, and most of the children would actually defend each other if someone was bullied.

[Greyhound]

39. Lemme guess, pre-Raygun?

We're so sick...
:thumbsup:

[seabeyond]

29. my son was talking about a girl fight the other day, that went a lot like this. made him sick

the girls head was being slammed on ground. he says guys arent so vicious. also said he was amazed nobody (students) jumped in to stop it. he says he talked to friends not there and they said they would have....

he was pretty sick by the whole thing.

way more girl fights than guy fights at his school

[donco6]

37. We have 2nd generation gangs here.

When the kid gets in a fight, the parents rally their siblings and come circle the school parking lot looking for the kid. We have to call the police all the time to shoo them away. Then we have to warn the kid and THEIR parents call THEIR siblings and go looking for the other group.

It's just . . . I dunno what to even say.

[proud2BlibKansan]

43. We had an incident in one of our schools

Two girls got into a fight. Teacher broke it up and sent them to the office. Principal sent them back to class. One of the girls pulled out her cell phone and called her family. 20 minutes later, they came up to school, walked into the classroom and proceeded to beat the shit out of the other girl. Two grown men. The rest of the family stood there and cheered them on. Teacher called 911 and later took a stress leave.

I can't even imagine grown men walking into my classroom and beating up a little girl.

Also the principal was fired a few weeks later for several things, this fight being one of them. (Why the FUCK would you ever send kids back to class after a fight??)

[Odin2005]

51. Jesus, I thought we had advanced beyond justice by blood feud...

:puke:

[Hekate]

40. If the cops do their job those cell phones can be confiscated as evidence of ...

... who was there and who was doing what.

This is beyond disgusting.

Hekate

[proud2BlibKansan]

45. Found the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS52kObHcEY

[tblue37]

47. Damn! Did you see this in the article?

KOVR says the victim was suspended even though the video allegedly shows her to be the recipient of the attack. The other girl has reportedly been expelled.


Police are investigating. No word yet on what the fight caused the fight.

I hate that the only way schools now know how to deal with attacks is to blame both the attacker and the victim. They suspended the victim.

[HuckleB]

49. Too many schools simply don't bother to try to get the facts, it seems.

[tblue37]

54. They had the video, though, and what is going on in the video is pretty darned obvious!

The victim is not fighting back at all--she is just being viciously beaten.

[The Gunslinger]

52. the attacker should be removed from public school.

and the mother arrested. I shouldn't have to pay taxes to let violent criminals ruin others education. I couldn't bring myself to watch the video.