Judge Finds Boy Guilty In Daytona Homeless Beating

AP ^ | May 10, 2007

[ConservativeStatement]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A 10-year-old boy was found guilty Thursday in the beating of a homeless Army veteran that left the man so severely injured he had to undergo reconstructive surgery

Circuit Judge John Watson found the boy guilty of aggravated battery in the March 27 attack in which John D'Amico, 58, was beaten and stoned with a concrete block.

The child's mother left the courtroom noticeably upset and refused to comment. Before the hearing began, she was hopeful: "If he gets to come home today, I'm going to bust out crying."

[DieHard the Hunter]

> From where?

North America.

> I’ve been to every state except AK, ND, MT, OR and HI, and I’ve spent significant amounts of time in NYC, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Atlanta, Washington DC, Newark NJ, Cincinnati, Chicago, New Orleans, Charleston, Memphis, Kansas City, Phoenix, Houston, LA, San Francisco/Oakland and Minneapolis.

Not a bad collection. Seattle is nice, as is Tampa. Fargo should not be missed. Portland has a great lifestyle even if it is loopy on the left-hand side: fantastic microbreweries. Honolulu is a great city, I was just there last September. Haven’t been to Cincinnati.

[Borges]

What was your opinion of Chicago? It’s remarkably clean for a big city. Daley keeps it humming.

[wideawake]

What was your opinion of Chicago? It’s remarkably clean for a big city.

I lived there in the late 80s and visit regularly.

The Second Daley Regime represents a vast improvement over the Bilandic/Byrne/Washington interregnum.

It's gotten much cleaner starting in about 1990 and Daley learned a lot from Giuliani, I suspect.

I think Chicago is just a world-class city now from an architectural, cultural, culinary, recreational and economic perspective.

[Borges]

I agree. It’s hard to believe but in the 1970s, The Loop at night was an abandoned wasteland. Old Man Daley was a bigot who and didn’t want to help the inner city at all. It was Byrne who got the ball rolling and tried to attract cultural events downtown and Daley Jr. did that much more. Everyone in Chicago attributes the 1979 snowstorm to her being elected in the face of Bilandic’s aloofness. Without that storm who knows what Chicago would be like today!