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Also, I'm wondering how 18 kids could beat up on one white 13 year old. There is hardly room to deliver the blows with that many people around. What this really is, is another occasion for bigots to engage in some veiled race-baiting. Kiss my petunia, you hostinghostinghostinghosting-brained crackers! Mike Rice On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:45:57 GMT, "LoathedWhiteman" <> wrote: > >18 kids are charged with racially motivated beating of teenage girl >6/14/03 >Brian E. Albrecht >Plain Dealer Reporter > >A May Day ritual described as "beat up a white kid" resulted in delinquency >charges of felonious hostinghostinghostingault, ethnic intimidation and aggravated riot filed >Thursday in Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court against 18 black and Hispanic youths >from Cleveland. > >Twelve girls and six boys, ages 9 through 15, are accused of beating, kicking >and choking a 13-year-old white girl at West 110th Street and Almira Avenue >near Wilbur Wright Middle School on May 1. > >The victim was a student at Wilbur Wright, as were five of her hostinghostinghostingailants. Each >of the attackers received a 10-day suspension, a Cleveland school official >said. > >Carmen Naso, supervisor of the juvenile justice unit of the county prosecutor's >office, said evidence indicates that the victim was attacked becuse of her >race, hence the ethnic-intimiation charge. The attack was apparently some sort >of May Day ritual, he said, with the "focus to beat up a white kid." > >Naso said the girl has blackouts as a result of the beating and remains under >medicl care. > >He said police responded after getting a call that there might be a racial >incident. Police arrived as the attack was underway. > >The felonious hostinghostinghostingault charge is a second-degree felony, punishable by a minimum >of one year in a juvenile facility. Ethnic intimidation and aggravated riot >are fourth-degree felonies, each carrying a minimum six-month sentence. > >Naso expects that the defendants will have a hearing within two to four weeks. > >To reach this Plain Dealer reporter >, 216-999-4853 > >http//www.cleveland.com/crime/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/iscri/1055586830218640.xml > |
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