Four Facebook Torturers Face Judge: Bail Denied

http://legalinsurrection.com ^ | 01/07/2017 | Fuzzy Slippers

[heterosupremacist]

The Chicago Tribune reports:

One day after a chilling live Facebook video made headlines, four suspects appeared in a packed Cook County courtroom Friday to face hate crime charges alleging they beat and tortured a mentally disabled teen in an attack that once again put the city’s ugly violence problem on display.

A media throng descended on the Leighton Criminal Court Building for the first appearance by Jordan Hill, Tesfaye Cooper and sisters Tanishia and Brittany Covington since the brutal images captivated and alarmed a world audience.

Dressed in street clothes, the four entered bond court amid heavy security, Cooper smirking as he walked to stand before the judge. As Assistant State’s Attorney Erin Antionetti detailed the charges, a friend of the victim’s family seated in the courtroom gallery nodded her head and wiped tears from her eyes.

A short time later, Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil ordered the four held without bail, citing the egregiousness of the allegations.

The judge addressed each defendant individually, noting that Brittany Covington was going to college, her sister was a parent, Cooper had a paralyzed brother and Hill lived with his mother.

“I’m looking at each of you and wondering where was the sense of decency that each of you should have had?” Ciesil said. “I don’t see it.”

[heterosupremacist]

For the first time, authorities alleged that Hill, who knew the 18-year-old victim from attending the same alternative school in Aurora, first beat the victim in the back of a van after he became angry that the teen’s mother was contacting him by Facebook about her son’s whereabouts. Prosecutors said Hill demanded $300 from the victim’s mother if she wanted her son back.

It wasn’t until later that the live Facebook video captured the abuse in the sisters’ apartment in the 3300 block of West Lexington Street.

Hill, 18, of Carpentersville; Cooper, 18, of Chicago; and Brittany Covington, 18, and sister Tanishia, 24, were each charged with aggravated kidnapping, hate crime, aggravated unlawful restraint and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, according to prosecutors. Hill also was charged with robbery, possession of a stolen motor vehicle and residential burglary, while both Covingtons were charged with residential burglary, they said.

Prosecutors revealed in court that the 18-year-old victim, who lives with his parents in suburban Streamwood, has schizophrenia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

[EnglishOnly]

I trust that God will have something special in line for these people.

[Bluebeard16]

I live in the Chitcago area. I hope they hold those SOB’s a few years in Cook County jail. Believe me the place is bad. Probably the worse they will see. Once sent to prison they get a much higher standard of living. Since shamed ex-governor Lying George Ryan abolished the death penalty they can’t be sentenced to death.

[heterosupremacist]

video at link (10:24)

[gaijin]

ALL adults..!

Fantastic..!

Here’s to hoping they’ve ended their futures.

[MuttTheHoople]

Obama angry his children denied bail.

[BobL]

Let’s give credit where it’s due. OF COURSE bail should be denied...but leftist judges often will find an excuse, such as ‘institutional racism’ to explain away these horrible crimes.

It sets a GREAT EXAMPLE, a few more and perhaps the animals in LaHood will get the message.

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

These four should be drawn and quartered...

[YogicCowboy]

Ohh! He looks petulant. Someone’s in for a hissy fit.

[arthurus]

Mohammed was the first mentally ill Moslem 1400+- years ago.
Islam is a worldwide organization of insane persons.

[arthurus]

With the attempted copycat in Baton Rouge I suspect this is all the new Knockout Game, the original version having got to be just mundane activity like walking and talking.