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(News) Arrests Made in Disturbing Gang Rape of California Teen
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Arrests Made in Disturbing Gang Rape of California Teen
Are you seriously trying to blame the parents
for these young men who raped a girl at a school dance on school property. Where were the adult teacher chaparones? The school is totally to blame for this for not providing adequent supervision and protection. No group should have even been within one mile of this dance without someone running them off. I dont know, what else must happen before adults stop taking their kids to sex hell aka public school.
- TheLordrocks
October 28, 2009 7:39PM
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Do you live in the Bay Area?
I do.
And yes, I will blame the parents of these males (they are not "men" in my opinion) for not raising them better; but parenting is only part of the problem (many of the parents weren't well parented either).
Utimately, the perpetrators are responsible for their own actions. However, try driving around the "bad" parts of Oakland, Richmond,
Hayward, etc (CA Bay Area) and you'll see the results of the generational cycle of despair. We've got children having children (a by-product of poor parenting, sub-standard general education & sex education , poverty , lack of resources, etc). Then there's the whole Thug culture glorifying: drugs , crime , weapons, extreme misogyny, etc.
We've begotten a whole generation of souless creatures that prey on one another without conscience or empathy. It didn't happen in a vacume. The reasons/causes are many. It will take a truly concerted effort by society as a whole to turn it around (if it even can be at this in time and history).
You don't have to join the armed forces or go overseas to witness war zones. Every state, city and town has them now. It's great to be alive! (sarcasm)
- JBarnett
October 28, 2009 8:33PM
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my bad
Sorry, there shouldn't be a space between Richmond & Hayward,
sentence should read: (if it even can be in this POINT in time and history)
- JBarnett
October 28, 2009 8:38PM
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Where do we begin?
I agree with both of you. The school should have been more diligent with student safety. There is a cycle of poverty , poor parenting or lack of parents, drugs ....the list goes on. But sexually based crimes are in a category of their own. I worked with many inner city youth for years and only a handful were charged with these types of crimes. This is just my opinion mind you, but it has to be something more to than the above names things. Basic human decency and respect is non-existent for the people who commit these crimes. As a parent myself, I feel responsible for my children 's actions but ultimately know that I cannot control their behavior once they leave my watchful eye. I am interested in knowing where these kids come from (home life) and how their parents respond. I feel that I have a jumbled mess of feelings towards this crime that occurred that is difficult to express, so forgive me if I ran in circles. But, where do we begin?
- okwnewmom
October 28, 2009 9:07PM
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no supervision
If this girl was my child I would be furious with the fact this went on for 2 hrs and no adults were around to ck what was going on..why pay teachers? Why pay cops for security? why have chaperones???? that is the crime here as much as what was done...2 whole hrs and no one cked out this part of the school ??????? there would have to have been noise and no one cked....I think the adults at this event should be held accountable as much as you people say about the parents i agree the parents should raise their children better but teachers and cops seem to be absolutely useless....
- cbooh
October 28, 2009 9:32PM
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Sure
Sure, I blame the parents and the teachers and the security guards. But most of all, I blame the pieces of filth who did this terrible thing, and the other pieces of filth who stood and watched and jeered at this poor girl for 2-1/2 hours. How could human beings stand around and WATCH a poor child be brutalized in this manner and cheer on the filthy monsters who were doing it? How could they?
- Babaroni
October 29, 2009 10:59AM
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adults
you are correct but where where the adults for over 2 hrs????? that is a big question...
- cbooh
October 29, 2009 12:00PM
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because they're male
To all of the good decent men out there, my apologies for the generalization.
However, there are males in this world (I will not call them men) that have born without souls, and have been raised to only think of, and gratify, themselves.
It's a cancer that's killing our society and our world. In cultures where women /girls are not valued (or deemed equally human as men/boys), this is the type of atrocity that occurs. Crimes against women and girls is significantly more horrific in muslim societies (the world over).
and btw, I'm not a teacher. I work in the technology feild.
- JBarnett
October 29, 2009 6:51PM
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cheer
as you said cheer on the filthy monsters...if there was cheering going on then the adults would have had to have heard it and no one even cked..they are just as bad..
- cbooh
October 29, 2009 11:47PM
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Spoken like a true teacher
Let me remind you that the majority of these kind of crimes are not happening in homes but on or near school campuses while children are either on campus, just leaving campus or on their way to campus...even a teacher should be able to connect the dots on this mathmetical problem.
- TheLordrocks
October 29, 2009 10:11AM
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