See April Cooper in the top row? She’s only 14 years old and she may be going to prison for the rest of her life. Five of the other seven juveniles shown here range from age 15 to 16, and the two boys are 17 for the doofus with the mustache and 18 for the goose on the lower right.

These excuses for young adults videotaped their kidnapping and revenge beating of 16 year old Victoria Lindsay, who apparently “trash-talked” the others online. Then these geniuses posted the video on MySpace and YouTube. She suffered a concussion, permanent hearing loss in her left ear and blurred vision in her left eye.

The parents of these young monsters are making it very clear why their kids act that way. “Look at their ages, they’re not adults,” said Christina Garcia, the mother of Mercades Nichols. “They still have a teenage mentality.” Garcia has denied that her daughter beat Lindsay even though it’s on videotape.

Lindsay (the victim) “embarrassed these girls,” Garcia told News Channel 8 on Sunday. “She said she was going to kick their you-know-what’s,” and called them “slutty.”

Oh. Well sure, then. Any 16 year old girl who says things like that deserves to be imprisoned and beaten senseless for over a half hour and suffer permanent injury. With a mother as stupid and selfish as Christina Garcia is, it’s no wonder her daughter is a callous, vicious monster.

“Grady Judd (the Polk County sheriff) is a big showboater,” said Robert Schumaker, the father of Stephen Schumaker. “He’s got this blown out of proportion.” Earlier, Robert Schumaker had denied his son’s involvement, saying neighbors told the Schumakers that Stephen and Zachary Ashley were not at the house acting as lookouts.

What? Did he just apologize for his sons help in brutalizing that girl? No? I’m mistaken? Well why the Hell didn’t he, then?

Brittini Hardcastle’s grandfather, Charles Platt, said his granddaughter gave a different version of events than Lindsay did.

Therefor Lindsay, the victim, is lying?

Not one of the parents of any of these eight miserable excuses for young Americans has made the slightest sound of apology that I’ve heard of yet. All that’s coming out of them is denial. When these kids were arrested, they were laughing in the holding cell and one of the girls was asking if this was going to make her late to cheerleader practice. They showed no concern for the seriousness of their acts.

I know that most kids don’t behave like this. I know that most kids aren’t that socially maladjusted and dysfunctional, but some are. Some take guns to school and kill everyone they can shoot.

This isn’t some new phenomenon, or a “sign of the times”, the result of violence on TV and blah blah blah. Kids have been doing rotten stuff and ganging up on others since forever. The difference is that the victims of these bullies are finally getting some justice instead of being told that “it’s part of growing up”. If getting beat up by bullies is part of growing up, then being prosecuted for bullying should be, as well.

The reason bullies have been getting away with it is because we let them. It’s a simple proposition that when kids know a harsh penalty is certain to follow such behavior, they’ll turn aside and unclench their fists whether they want to or not.

I’m glad to see this prosecution. Maybe we’re finally becoming a truly civilized society? It would be kinda nice for a change to see us protecting our kids from each other instead of letting them brutalize each other and calling it “part of growing up”.

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