Teens in YouTube beating video face life!

Do you think a life sentence is too severe?

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

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

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

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....

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

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!

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

What's happening to this world?

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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?

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.

What could they possibly charge them with that carries a life sentence. LOL
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These girls will probably just end up with some detention at school.

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

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!!

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!!

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.

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.

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

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.

The things people will do for YouTube fame.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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Send them to one of those "Scared Straight" programs

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

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."

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?

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

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.

Myspace is poisoning this generation.

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?

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.

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."