Girl Viciously Beaten by Four Teens Inside Brooklyn McDonald’s; Crowd Just Watches and Cheers

[JohnR! 5,495]

But she didn't have a knife and she didn't kill the victim.

If this child had a gun she would have killed the victim and probably taken a few more in the process.... You make a strong point for the need for stricter gun control.

If this child had a knife she would have killed the victim . Just having a little fun ... in the hood .Assault with a deadly weapon . (the stabbing charge ) Just having a little fun . . This child still has control of her child ? ( the one year old ) ... one wonders.

Edited March 13, 2015 by JohnR!

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Because anything that portrays blacks in a pre-formated negative stereotype is considered staple du jour by some. Evidence suggests it helps as a valve to let out racism and bigotry in small amounts without blowing up the entire concrete lining of the bunker.

p.s. Janelle you're one beautiful lady!

I thought the Jergens was used for that? Blowing off some steam lol

Awwww thank you!!

[JohnR! 5,495]

The Jergens is used more often to release intracranial pressure...

I meant it with all the respect in the world. :-)

I thought the Jergens was used for that? Blowing off some steam lol

Awwww thank you!!

[Janelle2002 3,865]

The Jergens is used more often to release intracranial pressure...

I meant it with all the respect in the world. :-)

intracranial I had to look that up.

Why you sure are kind and quite mannerable.

Now where is your picture?

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

If this child had a knife she would have killed the victim . Just having a little fun ... in the hood .Assault with a deadly weapon . (the stabbing charge ) Just having a little fun . . This child still has control of her child ? ( the one year old ) ... one wonders.

If the girl who punched me in the face and rendered me unconscious in high school, far from the 'hood' had punched a fraction of an inch to the left, it would have sent shards of bone into my brain and I would be dead. If it had been a fraction of an inch to the right, my glasses would have shattered right into my eye and I would be blind in that eye. If she'd punched me in the throat, I'd probably not be able to talk and require a trach bypass to breathe.

Welcome to the reality of fights. Coulda happened, didn't. White girls do it too. The girl who knocked me out had blonde hair and blue eyes.

It sounds like the girl in question has severe behavioural problems and needs intervention and intensive counselling more than prison. It's unlikely she'll get that, though, because she's not a rich white kid whose parents can afford in-patient hospitalization to help her. She'll probably end up in and out of prison until she ages out of juvie and then end up in prison for the rest of her life with brief stints on the outside and no idea how to live outside of prison. Her child will then grow up without a mother and the cycle continues.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

If the girl who punched me in the face and rendered me unconscious in high school, far from the 'hood' had punched a fraction of an inch to the left, it would have sent shards of bone into my brain and I would be dead. If it had been a fraction of an inch to the right, my glasses would have shattered right into my eye and I would be blind in that eye. If she'd punched me in the throat, I'd probably not be able to talk and require a trach bypass to breathe.

Welcome to the reality of fights. Coulda happened, didn't. White girls do it too. The girl who knocked me out had blonde hair and blue eyes.

It sounds like the girl in question has severe behavioural problems and needs intervention and intensive counselling more than prison. It's unlikely she'll get that, though, because she's not a rich white kid whose parents can afford in-patient hospitalization to help her. She'll probably end up in and out of prison until she ages out of juvie and then end up in prison for the rest of her life with brief stints on the outside and no idea how to live outside of prison. Her child will then grow up without a mother and the cycle continues.

Great post! I'm sorry about what happened to you.

Edited March 13, 2015 by Janelle2002

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

Great post! I'm sorry about what happened to you.

It's in the past and I've worked hard to turn it into a positive. I actually spent some time touring schools, years ago, and talking about bullying and what it does to people. This is a case of girls fighting, it's that simple. Now, is girls fighting a problem? Yes. Violence is ALWAYS a problem. But it's not a 'black' problem. It's not a 'white' problem. It's not a 'first nations' problem. It's a human problem.

We live in a world saturated by violence, where those who are disadvantaged, socioeconomically or otherwise, are consistently shown by the world that the only way to get ahead is to fight. Those who are lucky fight by putting their brains to work and getting the scholarships or student loans (ha, luck and student loans in the same sentence...) to get up and out. Not everyone is lucky enough to have the opportunities in school to do well, the intellect to succeed or the support to overcome. Not everyone has the opportunity to ever make something of themselves. Sure, you can argue that one should 'make their own opportunities' but I've lived on ten dollars a week to feed myself and my cat and let me tell you, when things are that dire, you don't have the resources to make an opportunity.

[JohnR! 5,495]

That I am, to be sure.

Writers were never meant to be in front of the camera. We're to be kept in a windowless room, behind the backlot, churning out ideas and putting words on someone else's mouth...

intracranial I had to look that up.

Why you sure are kind and quite mannerable.

Now where is your picture?

[Janelle2002 3,865]

That I am, to be sure.

Writers were never meant to be in front of the camera. We're to be kept in a windowless room, behind the backlot, churning out ideas and putting words on someone else's mouth...

Slick way to say no.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Guilty as charged!

Slick way to say no.

[lostinblue 1,989]

It's in the past and I've worked hard to turn it into a positive. I actually spent some time touring schools, years ago, and talking about bullying and what it does to people. This is a case of girls fighting, it's that simple. Now, is girls fighting a problem? Yes. Violence is ALWAYS a problem. But it's not a 'black' problem. It's not a 'white' problem. It's not a 'first nations' problem. It's a human problem.

We live in a world saturated by violence, where those who are disadvantaged, socioeconomically or otherwise, are consistently shown by the world that the only way to get ahead is to fight. Those who are lucky fight by putting their brains to work and getting the scholarships or student loans (ha, luck and student loans in the same sentence...) to get up and out. Not everyone is lucky enough to have the opportunities in school to do well, the intellect to succeed or the support to overcome. Not everyone has the opportunity to ever make something of themselves. Sure, you can argue that one should 'make their own opportunities' but I've lived on ten dollars a week to feed myself and my cat and let me tell you, when things are that dire, you don't have the resources to make an opportunity.

Start breeding when you are 14 or 15 years of age really puts you on the road to economic stability

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Danno was mostly against the gays as I recall.

That goes without saying, he was unrepentant in his homophobia, but he also never missed an opportunity to parley a story of black folks behaving badly to essentially state his opinion that said story proved that blacks folks were inherently prone to bad behavior.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Start breeding when you are 14 or 15 years of age really puts you on the road to economic stability

So true.. That is indeed a problem in China.

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/Metro/society/A-social-workers-battle-against-teen-pregnancies/shdaily.shtml

A social worker’s battle against teen pregnancies

By Ke Jiayun | November 18, 2013, Monday | Print Edition

Wang Handong, 45, remembers back two years when she was alerted to the plight of a 17-year-old girl who fell pregnant by a fellow student, concealed her pregnancy from her parents and gave birth to a stillborn child at home. The girl disposed of the infant’s body in a neighborhood garbage bin.

The unwed teenager came from a poor family. Her mother suffered from epilepsy and her father was a mahjong addict. They paid their daughter scant attention.

“When I entered the one-room apartment after being alerted by the neighborhood committee, I saw the girl’s clothes and her bed sheets soaked in blood,” said Wang. “She couldn’t utter a word and merely sat there sobbing.”

Such heartbreaking stories are nothing new for Wang. She is a social worker at the Baoshan branch of the Shanghai Sunshine Community-Youth Affairs Center. Her focus is on teenage pregnancies, a growing social problem across China.

A survey of more than 80,000 university students in seven cities at the end of last year revealed that 14.4 percent admitted to having pre-marital sex and more than 25 percent of students said they had experienced an unwanted pregnancy.

In Shanghai, a local hotline for women with unwanted pregnancies has received over 43,000 calls and offered help to some 4,800 young women since it was established in 2005. It is now handling about 40,000 calls and arranging abortions for thousands of young women every year.

“They are often so helpless and alone, and they need support,” Wang said of unwed teenage mothers. “They often haven’t received any sex education and know nothing about contraception.”

Wang resigned her job in a medical company about nine years ago and became one of the first group of qualified social workers in the city. She encountered her first teenage pregnancy case in 2008.

The girl in that case finally had an abortion with Wang’s help. Today she’s in a job and in a stable relationship with her boyfriend, Wang said.

She also recalled two cases where colleagues helped unwed teenagers by getting parental approval for them to carry their babies to term. The mothers and fathers of the babies, in both cases, wed when they reached the legal age of 20.

The case of the 17-year-old who dumped her stillborn child in a garbage can was a particularly tough one for Wang. The baby’s corpse was found by neighbors, who identified the family and called the center.

The girl, whose name cannot be made public, was a loner. Her only contact with the outside world was a computer. She said the baby was fathered by another student, who abandoned her when his money ran out. When she returned from a brief stay in hospital, Wang went to see her at home but was refused entry.

“I phoned her and said there were donations of money and gifts for her in my office,” Wang said. “When she arrived, she was thin and pale, wrapped in a big overcoat. Her face was heavily made up."

The girl was reticent to talk at first, but Wang’s gentle nature and sparkling, warm smile soon broke down the barriers.

“She is an independent girl who lacked loving support, either from her family or society,” Wang said. “She wasn’t even looking after her own health.”

But not all end that way. Last month, a 19-year-old mother was sentenced to five years in jail after throwing her newborn infant from the 12th floor of a building. Ten days later, a 22-year-old single mother strangled her newborn son. She has been charged with murder by prosecutors.

Wang and her colleagues are trying to head off such tragedies.

At the Baoshan youth center, she has organized sex education classes for women aged from 16 to 25 — targeting those who aren’t in public schools or jobs. The classes discuss subjects such as AIDS, use of condoms and how to avoid rape. Staff also take their courses out into the community.

During the recent summer holiday, more than 400 minors called the pregnancy hotline operated by the Shanghai No. 441 Hospital of the People’s Liberation Army — a 10 percent increase from a year earlier.

Hotline staff said calls from unwed pregnant teenagers have risen from 30 percent in 2010 to 50 percent today. About 40 percent of the callers admit to thoughts of suicide. More worrying, some calls come from girls only 12 or 13 years old.

“It may be the lack of sex education in schools or parental negligence,” Wang said of the rising numbers.

“There is no platform for them to discuss sex problems at school. I think both boys and girls need sex education.”

[Janelle2002 3,865]

So true.. That is indeed a problem in China.

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/Metro/society/A-social-workers-battle-against-teen-pregnancies/shdaily.shtml

A social worker’s battle against teen pregnancies

By Ke Jiayun | November 18, 2013, Monday | Print Edition

Wang Handong, 45, remembers back two years when she was alerted to the plight of a 17-year-old girl who fell pregnant by a fellow student, concealed her pregnancy from her parents and gave birth to a stillborn child at home. The girl disposed of the infant’s body in a neighborhood garbage bin.

The unwed teenager came from a poor family. Her mother suffered from epilepsy and her father was a mahjong addict. They paid their daughter scant attention.

“When I entered the one-room apartment after being alerted by the neighborhood committee, I saw the girl’s clothes and her bed sheets soaked in blood,” said Wang. “She couldn’t utter a word and merely sat there sobbing.”

Such heartbreaking stories are nothing new for Wang. She is a social worker at the Baoshan branch of the Shanghai Sunshine Community-Youth Affairs Center. Her focus is on teenage pregnancies, a growing social problem across China.

A survey of more than 80,000 university students in seven cities at the end of last year revealed that 14.4 percent admitted to having pre-marital sex and more than 25 percent of students said they had experienced an unwanted pregnancy.

In Shanghai, a local hotline for women with unwanted pregnancies has received over 43,000 calls and offered help to some 4,800 young women since it was established in 2005. It is now handling about 40,000 calls and arranging abortions for thousands of young women every year.

“They are often so helpless and alone, and they need support,” Wang said of unwed teenage mothers. “They often haven’t received any sex education and know nothing about contraception.”

Wang resigned her job in a medical company about nine years ago and became one of the first group of qualified social workers in the city. She encountered her first teenage pregnancy case in 2008.

The girl in that case finally had an abortion with Wang’s help. Today she’s in a job and in a stable relationship with her boyfriend, Wang said.

She also recalled two cases where colleagues helped unwed teenagers by getting parental approval for them to carry their babies to term. The mothers and fathers of the babies, in both cases, wed when they reached the legal age of 20.

The case of the 17-year-old who dumped her stillborn child in a garbage can was a particularly tough one for Wang. The baby’s corpse was found by neighbors, who identified the family and called the center.

The girl, whose name cannot be made public, was a loner. Her only contact with the outside world was a computer. She said the baby was fathered by another student, who abandoned her when his money ran out. When she returned from a brief stay in hospital, Wang went to see her at home but was refused entry.

“I phoned her and said there were donations of money and gifts for her in my office,” Wang said. “When she arrived, she was thin and pale, wrapped in a big overcoat. Her face was heavily made up."

The girl was reticent to talk at first, but Wang’s gentle nature and sparkling, warm smile soon broke down the barriers.

“She is an independent girl who lacked loving support, either from her family or society,” Wang said. “She wasn’t even looking after her own health.”

But not all end that way. Last month, a 19-year-old mother was sentenced to five years in jail after throwing her newborn infant from the 12th floor of a building. Ten days later, a 22-year-old single mother strangled her newborn son. She has been charged with murder by prosecutors.

Wang and her colleagues are trying to head off such tragedies.

At the Baoshan youth center, she has organized sex education classes for women aged from 16 to 25 — targeting those who aren’t in public schools or jobs. The classes discuss subjects such as AIDS, use of condoms and how to avoid rape. Staff also take their courses out into the community.

During the recent summer holiday, more than 400 minors called the pregnancy hotline operated by the Shanghai No. 441 Hospital of the People’s Liberation Army — a 10 percent increase from a year earlier.

Hotline staff said calls from unwed pregnant teenagers have risen from 30 percent in 2010 to 50 percent today. About 40 percent of the callers admit to thoughts of suicide. More worrying, some calls come from girls only 12 or 13 years old.

“It may be the lack of sex education in schools or parental negligence,” Wang said of the rising numbers.

“There is no platform for them to discuss sex problems at school. I think both boys and girls need sex education.”

JohnR!! Why did you just burst his little world? Now he won't come back for a while. You have to let him think these are only problems in the black community or he will get angry and stop blessing us with his stupidity.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Oh, I'm so sorry... I forgot that teen pregnancy is supposed to be an exclusive problem of the black community in the US... Darn!

JohnR!! Why did you just burst his little world? Now he won't come back for a while. You have to let him think these are only problems in the black community or he will get angry and stop blessing us