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Was watching the latest Zero Punctuation and saw this on the Escapist's OT forum:
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Article: http://www.winknews.com/Local-Florida/2011-06-01/Online-video-shows-Fort-Myers-boy-being-bullied
Escapist forum post: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.289254-8th-grade-Girls-Attack-Strip-11-Year-Old-Boy
FORT MYERS, Fla. - An online video shows a prank some would say went too far.
Three young girls from Dunbar Middle school videotaped themselves tackling an 11 year old boy and taking off his clothes. The group can be heard laughing at times and mocking the boy as he struggled to break free.
"He stopped to chat with his friend and they thought it would be funny," said the boy's mother.
The child who we are not identifying is a 5Th grader at Ray Pottorf Elementary. His mom says she only found out about the video when her older son, who goes to school with the girls, said his friends had seen the video online.
"You take his clothes off in broad daylight, in the middle of a busy neighborhood and then you post it on YouTube to tell all your friends look at what I did. Crime or not, it shouldn't happen," she added.
Fort Myers Police says the girl would have faced misdemeanor battery charges, but that the boy's mother has refused to press charges. She wants the girls' parents to hand out a punishment instead.
I find it pretty ridiculous that the mother of the boy isn't pressing charges and seems to be disregarding this simply as a prank that went a bit too far. I can't imagine not pursuing something like this to the fullest extent I have available to me if I were the parent. I've seen some arguments made that putting the boy through court proceedings would cause further trauma but I don't buy that. If I were the boy I'd look back on something like this and want to know that justice was done, or at least pursued.
There is discussion in the Escapist forum thread I found this on raised the point that if this were done with the gender's reversed this would be taking a very different route. I'm fairly inclined to agree, I think there would be much more outcry if 3 boys did this to a girl.
Lastly, I do find it somewhat entertaining that Anonymous seems to have taken an interest in this incident. The /b/ thread is linked in the Escapist forum OP.
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Belgium4985 Posts
Disturbing.
Also disturbing, the news broadcasting this.
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I like the mom's response though.
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TL truly is the 2 day late version of Reddit.
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Justice? punishment? they just took the kids clothes off lol
if anything in 5 years he'll look back on how lucky he was.
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just saw this on 4chan.... pretty em-effing scary
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The world gets worse everyday 
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Wow.... that's all I can pretty much say.
Corruption in the youth? Most likely bad parenting, I'd say.
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On June 05 2011 14:43 HazMat wrote:
TL truly is the 2 day late version of Reddit.
Quit taking Digg's title!
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Don't know what's wrong with the mother, but people these days are just too nice. I would have hated my mother and given her shit for a long time if she didn't press charges.
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On June 05 2011 14:43 Hakker wrote:
Justice? punishment? they just took the kids clothes off lol
if anything in 5 years he'll look back on how lucky he was.
Yeah. So happy he was molested in broad daylight as he was stripped of his clothes while someone knee was over his throat. Yeah.
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On June 05 2011 14:43 Hakker wrote:
Justice? punishment? they just took the kids clothes off lol
if anything in 5 years he'll look back on how lucky he was.
3 14 year old boys forcibly restrain and remove the clothes of an 11 year old girl, and they go on the sex offenders register.
3 14 year old girls forcibly restrain and remove the clothes of an 11 year old boy, and its a harmless prank that maybe got a little bit out of hand.
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On June 05 2011 14:46 vetinari wrote:Show nested quote +On June 05 2011 14:43 Hakker wrote:
Justice? punishment? they just took the kids clothes off lol
if anything in 5 years he'll look back on how lucky he was.
3 14 year old boys forcibly restrain and remove the clothes of an 11 year old girl, and they go on the sex offenders register. 3 14 year old girls forcibly restrain and remove the clothes of an 11 year old boy, and its a harmless prank that maybe got a little bit out of hand.
Exactly, thought this is the result of bad parenting more than these kids actually having problems imo.
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On June 05 2011 14:46 vetinari wrote:Show nested quote +On June 05 2011 14:43 Hakker wrote:
Justice? punishment? they just took the kids clothes off lol
if anything in 5 years he'll look back on how lucky he was.
3 14 year old boys forcibly restrain and remove the clothes of an 11 year old girl, and they go on the sex offenders register. 3 14 year old girls forcibly restrain and remove the clothes of an 11 year old boy, and its a harmless prank that maybe got a little bit out of hand.
this man has a point.
im a fan of the lack of charges though.
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Dang I wish that happened to me rofl. No, but seriously, it's kinda pathetic to be bullied by girls LOL. The weak always get bulled; its Nature's way. Still, bullied by girls hahahaha!! just man the boy up for a lil while and he will be fine.
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I'm blown away by how stupidly the boy's mother is acting. If I were abused like that and a video of me getting abused like that were posted on youtube, I would make the girls' life a living hell and use every shred of legal I had to get them into juvie. I bet the boy's life sucks because everyone at school is making fun of him and teasing him and taunting him and harassing him. I would hate my mother for not pressing charges.
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It's right if this was 3 14 year old boys and an 11 year old girl. they'd be facing sexual assault charges. People should stop needlessly messing with other people, pulling pranks on your friends is one thing, but strangers makes for over-complex situations. I'm not a fan of saying stuff should go to court over child hijinks, it was a one off thing that wasn't pre-planned (well not on a particular kid) but they should definitely be suspended and given a police warning or something.
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This situation pisses me off, everything from the what those 3 bitches did to the mother not pressing any charges... seriously? I just can't comprehend how she takes this as a prank at most, I bet those 3 girls parents aren't going to punish them to the extent they deserve or at all for that matter.
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On June 05 2011 14:46 vetinari wrote:Show nested quote +On June 05 2011 14:43 Hakker wrote:
Justice? punishment? they just took the kids clothes off lol
if anything in 5 years he'll look back on how lucky he was.
3 14 year old boys forcibly restrain and remove the clothes of an 11 year old girl, and they go on the sex offenders register. 3 14 year old girls forcibly restrain and remove the clothes of an 11 year old boy, and its a harmless prank that maybe got a little bit out of hand.
This is exactly what's wrong with the world -_-
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