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No I don't think its to sever...They desirve every second of it!!! That poor girl will probably never be able to trust anyone ever again, and not to even mention her face, and your worried about the other teens... no they should stay in there...what they will go thru in jail is what they need to get... Oh and by the way where were the parents, i mean come i don't really know about everyone esle but i was taught not to fight just to turn the other way, and yes i do, i got in a fight in 8th grade, the girl came up to me hit me one and i walked away and as my back was turned the second time she hit me again, i still didn't fight back, let alone start one... Anyway when i watched this it made me sick...how can anyone be so heartless... I would think that someone would have stoped it or let her go...they took this too far, who is to say that lifetime is too long...honestly have some common sense!!!

lwhi, I concur. When they get out of prison, they'll probably just come out wanting to do worse crimes. A judge can persecute them to the fullest extent of the law, which is maybe 15 years tops (I say this with no knowledge of law), but enough to get them into harder stuff.

What we should do is try to solve the problem so we try to stop people from acting like this.

I hated my school, but when I heard what the district did with the money Prez Clinton gave after the columbine massacre, i couldn't help but have respect for them. Other schools planted rose bushes or built higher fences around the school perimiter. Yeah. . . that'll solve the problem. Our school initiated a peer reasource program.

They're still young, they can still turn their lives around.

I just don't know how you can rehabilitate people that are this mean to the core. The prisons seem to be filled up with drug offenders at least as much as violent vicious criminals like these teens. There is little effort that I see to actually try and rehabilitate human garbage like this, other than the hope that prison life will. Unfortunately, if they get out after too much time, they would really be dangerous. I still would like to watch them get beaten pretty bad, maybe like a caning that hurt beyond bad, but didn't do brain damage, or permanent physical damage. More mercy than they showed this girl.

I dunno, it's not so much about having sympathy for them.

Locking them up for life isn't solving the problem - our prisons will become too overcrowded and people will continue to exhibit this kind of deeply anti-social behaviour.

While effective in the short-term, killing them isn't really very humane - and it's not going to help create a healthy, caring society. Personally, I don't believe in the death penalty full-stop.

Which leaves rehabilitation; I think that someone who's capable of this kind of violence is ill. I'm not trying to build a case for them, they don't deserve sympathy - but we need constructive ways for dealing with people choose to hurt others in such a deplorable way.

Well, we all know that they will not be rehabilitated, and at that age they are a write off. Certainly lwhi has the better and more humane thought than I did. I have little to no sympathy for these monsters.

these kids are nuts

I don't hope that they're raped and beaten.

I hope they're rehabilitated, so they can re-enter society without being a threat.

Maybe a life sentence is too much, but I hope they are r aped and beaten during the time they do serve.

The sad thing is with all the media attention their video is getting, these teens are getting exactly what they wanted: fame.

OMFG what the HELL r u htinking if u beat up someone let them have a few peple 2 help them better yet DONT GET IN TO A FIGHT!!!!!!!!! the peo[ple who did this decerve a adlet tril its cruel to not only lure the girl into the house but almost kill her what r people thinking these days?

I think if youre going to piick a fight make sure its fair otherwise u desuerve what they give you and if any of the fighters r reading this U R SOOOOO MEAN!!!! IDOITS!!!!!!!

sherrell, iono about that other stuff, but i agree with you on that sentence. They'll come out of prison probably commiting more crimes, they should work with victims of abuse instead.

THIS CHILD WILL CARRY THIS BEATING WITH HER FOR A LONG TIME AND I THINK WHAT WILL MAKE THE PARENTS START BEING THE PARENTS IS WHEN THEY START GETTING THE HOSPITALS AND DOCTOR BILLS FOR THIS PREMEDITATED ACT!!!!!!!! PARENTS SHOULD STOP BEING FRIENDS WITH THEIR CHILDREN AND START SHOWING SOME PARENTAL GUIDANCE. THEY COULD HAVE KILLED HER BUT I SAY IM GLAD SHE IS DOING BETTER BUT ONLY TYME WILL TELL. TO THE GUYS THAT STOOD OUTSIDE AND CALL THEMSELVES THE LOOKOUT CREW ........ YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A WOMAN BEATER YOURSELF AND U SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES.

I agree with huntre - the authorities must be trying to make some kind of example from them, life is a hell of a long time.

What happens if you take youtube out of the equation?

You get a fairly standard (though admittedly, particularly violent) gang beating. The people involved are listed in the CNN article as between 14 to 18, which is actually verging on adulthood. We're not talking kindergarden. Maybe I'm wrong, but imagine lots of teenagers viciously beat up other other kids - even in gangs - a lot, all over the world. and that such violent behaviour is probably not that new.

I think the things which make this newsworthy are myspace and youtube involvement - and that it was filmed.

I was brought up to believe that standing by and watching a fight in the playground is worse than fighting. It seems like the news media are at the side of the playground, taking bets. In the CNN article, the writer even goes as far as showing the reader which search terms are required to view similar clips on youtube. The layers of irony are dumbfounding ... CNN is actually helping to spead the idea of fight videos as a current part of society.

I agree with huntre - the authorities must be trying to make some kind of example from them, life is a hell of a long time.

What happens if you take youtube out of the equation?

You get a fairly standard (though admittedly, particularly violent) gang beating. The people involved are listed in the CNN article as between 14 to 18, which is actually verging on adulthood. We're not talking kindergarden. Maybe I'm wrong, but imagine lots of teenagers viciously beat up other other kids - even in gangs - a lot, all over the world. and that such violent behaviour is probably not that new.

I think the things which make this newsworthy are myspace and youtube involvement - and that it was filmed.

I was brought up to believe that standing by and watching a fight in the playground is worse than fighting. It seems like the news media are at the side of the playground, taking bets. In the CNN article, the writer even goes as far as showing the reader which search terms are required to view similar clips on youtube. The layers of irony are dumbfounding ... CNN is actually helping to spead the idea of fight videos as a current part of society.

This wasn't just a "hey let's be teenagers and make a video" event. They severely beat this girl. They could have easily killed her. She has very serious physical damage that may never heal.
I say let them face whatever penalty any adult would face, even life. They lured her into the house and trapped her (they face kidnapping charges as well) and nearly beat the life out of her. These people shouldn't be walking the streets.

life sentence doesn't make any sense.
the most important thing is to know how these teens could have grown up so ignorant and lost. Probably their parents deserve more such a strong penalty ...

I intially thought this was a joke. I believe that these girls should receive a strong, yet reasonable, penalty for their actions. To suggest a life sentence is like saying to the world, "We will make these girls the ultimate example of consequence to put fear in the hearts and minds of Teens everywhere. This could happen to YOU!" Should they receive such a harshly overblown penalty, there may be a backlash of rebellion set in motion the likes of which can't be measured.

Good. Try them as adults. Cruelty begets cruelty. Their cruelty towards the girl they beat up will show them the cruelty of the judicial system. That'll get them reconnected with reality real fast. I'm suprised the prosecutor didn't add mob action to the charges. To me, this is a glaring example of what happens when parents let other things besides themselves do the parenting, plain and simple. Another thing that disturbs me is the voyeuristic nature of the crime. Even more disturbing is that there are people who want to watch something like this. Kind of a scary turn in society isn't it? I'll never watch the video, just like I will never watch the Daniel Pearl beheading. I know that's old news, but it's for the same reason. I don't enjoy seeing images of human suffering, and I just don't understand the psychology of cruelty.

I have a young child and this freaks the hell out of me. Times are so different from when I was in school that I can only imagine what it will be like in 8 years when she is in high school.

I don't think they should get life but they should be given community service. I feel they should be an anti-gang spokes person. Talking to children about gangs and how to avoid putting things on the internet for publicity. Just like moms against drunk driving, these kids face should be broadcast at least twice a week showing the country how their actions affected their life. They will be getting their 15 minutes of fame.

i blame are goverment for the way are children act today .
why are kids are taught at a very early age if mom and dad touch u (spank ,or sendsu to bed with out dinner or something of that nature),u can tell someone and they will investagate it and parents get charged with something they take to much control from the parents . But when a child dose something wrong then the goverment will push blame back on the parents .u know a spanking dosent hurt and dosent mess thier minds up and dosnt cause them to want to beat others. As far as i am concerned the goverment did this the goverment should fix it by giveing back parents rights.because are kids are way out of control. when i was going to school didnt hear about kids bringing guns to school drugs kids killing kids or blowing things up .thats because parents had control on us we would darn to do this kind of crap because if we did are parents would smack u up beside the head or send us to bed take are tvs phones ect.... way from us and that would be then end of it . i thank god evey day for my parents they taught me the diffences between right and wrong and how not to judge others unless i want to be judge by them.

There can be no greater or more productive punishment for these kids and those who take pleasure in or are merely indifferent to the suffering of others, than to awaken their conscience so they can fully understand and accept responsibility for the consequences of their actions. Throwing them into prison to be brutalized in the same manner as their victim may seem like justice, but even if they receive life sentences, sooner or later they will get out and then they will be hardened criminals, perhaps even murders. Give these kids a year of community service assisting the police who document child abuse. Have them assist the photographer who documents the injuries of infants and children who have been beaten and neglected, sometimes to death, or to work as file clerks for that department. A few years ago I worked in a photo lab that developed photos for the local police child abuse unit. If being exposed to the consequences of the most brutal and meaningless cases of physical violence doesn't arouse their dormant sense of empathy, enable them to feel genuine remorse for their actions and turn them around, they are beyond redemption.

THIS STORY JUST BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES FOR THE SIMPLE FACT THOSE YOUNG LADIES AND GENTLEMEN DIDN'T HAVE TO GET INVOLVED IN SOMETHING AS BAD AS BEATING THAT POOR CHILD. JUST FIVE MINUTES ALONE WITH EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM AND THEN THEY WOULD REALIZE HOW MUCH PAIN THEY CAUSED THAT YOUNG LADY! ESPECIALLY THAT ONE IN THOSE PINK SWEATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! remember what goes around comes right back around it might not happen directly to u but it will happen to someone connected to u!!!!!!!!!!

The girls didn't post it on YouTube - if you read the article, towards the end it says "The suspects didn't have a chance to post the video online before police moved in and seized it, Judd said. The Sheriff's Department made it public, and it wound up on YouTube anyway. Judd recognizes the irony."

Any girl in public school knows how cruel other girls can be- especially in packs. It's a sad truth that such anger and hatred can exist at all- but it makes an even sadder statement about the society that nurtured them to this state.

1: The girl who got beat shouldn't of been talking smack in the first place thats what happens thats her own damn fault.
2: Who ever the idiot is who posted this shouldn't have. They just ratted them selfs out.
3: MILLIONS of people get JUMPED everyday what makes this story so special?

Myspace is poisoning this generation.

IT DEPENDS ON THERE PAST BEHAVIOR. THOSE GIRLS KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING.AND DIDN'T THINK THEY WOULD GET CAUGHT. WHERE WERE THE PARENTS OF THE HOME WHERE THIS WENT ON?
ANGER MANAGMENT WONT' CUT IT FOR THIS ONE. I BET THEIR SORRY NOW. THAT'A A BITCH FOR YOU WHEN YOU CAN'T TAKE CARE OF YOUR OWN BEEF.

Reminds me of the great show "Escape to Chimp Eden"

i fail to see the thought process in putting a beating on the internet. what do you gain from it except for the elevated chance that you will be caught and persecuted.
is the teen population really growing in stupidity to the point of more or less turning them self's in for violent and criminal acts?

These teenagers are no better than terrorists. Just because they are Americans from Florida doesn't make their actions any less heinous. There was a lot of premeditation on the part of the guilty teens. Prosecutors must use this case to send a message to prevent "even worse things to come."

kill them all, too many american idots anyway...

Send them to one of those "Scared Straight" programs

Yeah but remember these girls were between the ages of 14-17. Personally I don't think they are that mature to be tried as adults. Also her mother said "The victim's mother says her daughter has a black eye and several cuts." I'm not excusing the actions however whenever media is focused on a case it seems a prosecutor wants to go to extremes to save face politically.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=6073700

The result according to the victim's father:

His daughter, who suffered a concussion, has permanent hearing loss in her left ear and blurred vision in her left eye, he said.

OK Life is a way too harsh we don't need to make an example out of these girls. However probation and community service is appropriate. I wouldn't be opposed to the weekend jail sentences imposed by courts completing maybe a 10 day jail sentence on saturday and sundays'. I am sure these girls know they did wrong, maybe a public apology to the girl should be noted too.

I wrote out a whole long text about how stupid locking them up would be and we need a societal shift in values and yada yada but really it just comes down to my last sentence.

"sheesh its sad that our national mentality has been so warped that "throw'em in jail" is the best answer we can come up with."

ya'll are as bad as these kids, overreacting just like they did (and basically sentencing the younger ones to be victims of violence and sexual abuse for years), yea go feel good about your righteousness in locking them up.

The things people will do for YouTube fame.

Unbelievable, that makes me wonder about their upbringing... What is wrong with kids nowadays, it seems like they are filled with such anger and not that anger has never existed but it seems like it is consuming kids at a younger age.

I heard in the new a few months ago about a 5 yr. old attempting to commit suicide. It's sad what is happening.

Punish the parents, re-program their kids; and - most of all - make sure to stop talking trash so you aren't next.

Exactly... This is hilarious that it even turning into news.. Its ridiculous that anyone even bats an eyelid at this sort of thing. I used to get "roughhoused" the same way when I was younger. Obviously not by a crew of lackeys but shite. Its young people biz. You talk crap you get your ass handed to you. The parent and the cop are twice as bad trying to get their media coverage, splurging generalisms and personal beliefs.

I think they should get a sit down and a warning, maybe community service. Let em work with gang members and stuff see if they think they can run with those people.. Hahaha America.

I think they're getting life because they weren't sorry about what they did. They thought she deserved it, since she said bad things about them on myspace. Truthfully, I don't think life is a fitting sentence, they just need enough for them to gain maturity. I really think the courts are trying to make an example out of them. This isn't the first fight that has been posted on the internet; and I'm sorry to say but it probably won't be the last.

Thank you "HeadNtheClouds" and "RuffRev"...Preach Preach!!! Each one, teach one....It takes a village to raise a child...Treat other's as you would want to be treated...Love thy nieghbor......

Seriously, these sayings may be a bit cliche, but does that take away any of their validity....NO!!

WAKE UP PEOPLE!!

They all knew EXACTLY what they were doing. There are no if, ands, or but's about it. If she would have died from a blood clot in her brain or a spinal injury during this fight, this beating could be considered pre-meditated murder.

But thank God, the victim did survive. When are we going to stop making excuses for our "juvenile's" and start giving them consequences to their actions.

Come on put your self in the shoes of the victim and her family. Would you want these people to just get away with almost killing you and then next Monday be sitting behind you in Chem Lab or worse in the caf. or recess.

This is equall to a gang jump-in, except she had no awareness of what was going to happen prior to her attack.

Yes, they are adults!!

the courts should sentence them to join the army, they need to learn some respect and boundary's.

What could they possibly charge them with that carries a life sentence. LOL
i love CNN.

These girls will probably just end up with some detention at school.

I don't so much mind harsh penalties for "pack mentality" stupidity. It's sort of a double lesson. Hopefully next time they'll think on their own. We all do need to police ourselves and think about questions of morality and ethics kind of on our own when we're growing up. Unfortunately... they won't be living normal lives anymore if they get a life sentence. The prison system won't really help distance them from that classist mentality... probably more like the opposite. Hmm. I do think a life sentence is a bit TOO harsh, however.

haha life.

some people don't even get life for killing people.

a girl got her ass beat.

if they wouldn't have filmed it, it wouldn't have been news. if anything they should get life for being stupid. have you people never seen a fight before?

This kind of behavior makes me sick. I hope the girls get enough time in jail to the point to where they get the point, even if that means life.

I love kids and I work with inner-city and troubled kids but I say let them go to Jail. I wouldn't say life, but maybe 50 years.....That was a helluva beat down! don't know how many of you out there have ever been in a really good BEAT-DOWN....but I have and let me tell you, they could have killed that girl with the blows they were putting on her head and her body. She still may have major nerve damage for life as a result.

Secondly, I even as a young man would not allow a female to be hit or beaten. It's something you just don't do. The guys who stood and watched obviously had no guts and no respect for women. You've got to be DEAD INSIDE to stand and watch something like that and do NOTHING.

Also, this stems from the fact that these teens had no fear of the consequences what-so-ever. I would not have been fearful of what the law was gonna to do me. I would have been in terror over what my Dad & Mom would do to me. But these teens parents have never even been mentioned because they were probably the type that allowed thier kids the freedom to do "whatever" with no discipline at all. I think the parents should do time aas well.....What they should have been doing all along was playing that little game MADEA / Tyler Perry talked about in one of his movies called TEAR-THAT- ASS-UP!
Ruff Rev.

I took my FIRST grader to school and spoke with his "teacher" when she graded his grammer incorrectly. He learned that people in charge can be wrong, sometimes but must still receive respect. Teachers must be more educated to teach our children. Yes blame the parents and the system of government that won't switch to a 17% flat tax, so that the poor and lower financial income level citizens who purchase little will be able to take care of their children instead of sending them off to daycare while they pay the "luxury tax" instituted by the socialist government years ago that was supposed to recind the "luxury tax" after the country got back on its feet. These girls should be made to work with victims of violence and their families for the next 5 years. By the time they finish their civil "repayment" they will have a meaningful background which they can apply toward a meaningful job. (Maybe they could be sterilized, too), no not really!

This is teenagers are just being teenagers. Why talk about jail? Girls that have a lot of energy and have social dilemmas, What ever. And why jail? This is nothing compared to using guns. North America has become a sensitive cry baby. NO GUNS!

If they're old enough to post the video on YouTube... they're old enough to get charged as adults... this stuff makes me sick.

Oh my god... i just watched the video... I'm so shaken up right now...

What's happening to this world?

This is sad, this is a result of technology? The absent mother & father? What happened to sending your kid to Sunday school & teaching them good values. Like love thy neighbor & forgiveness. The school system is being shut down. A lot of teachers lost their jobs in California because of Schwartzenegger, he required "old" teachers to go back to school & earn more credits. My husband lost his job & is now in charge of punishing students instead of teaching them. He was such a great teacher & built them up to believe in themselves & humanity, computer technology, what you need to survive in this world today. He, along with hundreds of teachers like this lost their jobs....This is the result!

Life may be too severe, but 5-10 years isn't out of the question, the beating they put on that girl was horrible.

I think they should get a prison sentence, maybe not life. They lured this girl into the house to beat her so that they could make a good YouTube video. I think that is a sign of worse things to come.... I am very happy that they are being tried as adults, their parents should be charged as well....

I don't know why we don't just build a big wall around, say, Idaho, and leave all the criminals in there.

i don't think they should get life but enough time that they head will be on straight when they get out of jail...

Just give them a year of public service, damn, not a life sentence.

Do you think a life sentence is too severe?