Posted on 04/12/2008 11:50:59 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
BARTOW, Fla. -- One of eight teens accused of taking part in the notorious videotaped "animalistic" beating of another Central Florida teen snickered while a judge issued bail on Friday.
April Cooper, 14, giggled and attempted to hold in her laughter as she was told that she was being held on $36,000 bond, Local 6 News reported. It's not known why Cooper giggled.
A judge set bails ranging from $30,000 to $37,000 for each during their first court appearances.
They also were ordered to stay away from their high school and Internet social networking sites, such as MySpace. The judge also ordered them not to have any contact with the victim or each other.
The accused range in age from 14 to 18. The state attorney's office said all will be tried as adults on charges that include kidnapping.
The judge has ordered everyone involved in the case not to talk to the media. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd called the incident "animalistic" attack when he released the video on Monday.
The videotape of the beating has been viewed widely on national TV and the Internet this week.
Families Seek Protection
Families of the teens accused in the beating have received death threats from across the country after their addresses and phone numbers were posted on the Internet, inside a YouTube video.
The new YouTube video calls out for the public to take action, saying, "let your voices be heard."
The video then posts the girls' names, their phone numbers, addresses and other information.
Local 6 reported that some of the families have spoken with deputies about the possibility of getting protection for their safety.
The six girls are accused of luring Victoria Lindsay to a home so they could videotape her beating over some apparent online "trash talk."
Stephen Schumaker and Zachary Ashley are accused of acting as lookouts during the attack.
Schumaker, the only one of the eight arrested to be released from jail, told Local 6 that his family is receiving death threats from all over the United States.
"I don't see why I'm even in this whole situation," Schumaker said in an interview for Local 6.
The videotaped beating was seen by more than 500,000 people as of Thursday night and prompted e-mails to Local6.com from all over the country.
It was the most-viewed video on YouTube at one point Thursday, Local 6 reported.
Wrong Information Posted Online
Meanwhile, an innocent family was targeted by angry callers after their information was mistakenly posted online.
The couple said they got around 300 angr
y, abusive calls from all over the country Wednesday.
Not evil, just extra-stupid I think. They most likely learned this behavior from movies in my opinion.
Unfortunately for them, Florida doesn’t have any sense of humor, muchless their sense of humor. They are going to throw the book at them.
For acting out a fantasy, their lifes are ruined.
“I don’t see why I’m even in this whole situation,” Schumaker said in an interview for Local 6.
And this, in a nutshell, is the problem.....
Quite rightly so.
L
r u kidding?
It wasn 't kind compassion that beat the girl up.
Let's see how giggly she is when she's in the joint.
Sorry, I’m voting for evil. They obviously grew up in very amoral, peer-dominated environments. A lot of middle class parents - and these appear to be middle class kids - feel absolutely unable to set down any moral or ethical guidelines for their kids. Of course, this may be because they have none themselves. But in general, many of them turn their child rearing over to the “pack,” and these kids live in a sort of Lord of the Flies world.
Believe me. As one who has been involved with a woman who had a teenage daughter, I do not find this statement surprising. Disappointing, Hell yes.
As I see it, kids today are filled with infinite needs and zero responsibilities. There are no consequences and their brain-dead Parents, supporting anything their child wants (As opposed to needs) are to blame. Unfortunately the Parents are the product of the Dr. Spock method of childrearing themselves.
This dumb A$$ kid is the product of a very longterm and complex evolution IMO.
these will all grow up to be good b. HUSSEIN supporters....
they were just declaring jihad on the infidel victim.....allah fubar!!!
He is extraordinarily stupid.
One would think after being in juvenile detention for several days now would have made her see the seriousness of her involvement in this. I wonder if she’s one of the ones who “can’t be helped”?
I fear for my generation as the present youth will be our caretakers when we are old and infirm.
Sense of humor ?
Acting out a fantasy ?
Wow, I mean just wow. I am sure Ted Bundy and Charles Manson were just acting out a fantasy of theirs as well so I mean maybe they should have gotten probation because we just did not understand their fantasy.
Where does a sense of humor come in to play, the planning of the trap or the execution of the plan ?
Stupid is using a fork to pry a stuck plug from a wall socket Evil is planning a violent ambush.
Actually, I think they learned a lot of it from their parents. I saw a video where several of the parents made comments.
There was one grandmother that was very upset, but quite a few of the parents thought their lovely children were being abused by the system. One angry father was in a tirade about the sheriff making a big deal about a “fight that was never more than a one on one”.
One woman made a comment the girl brought it on herself by making comments on the internet.
The quality of parents I saw make me not surprised at all the kids are animals, without the ability to think beyond their own selfish desires.
It sounds like a bunch of lowlife kids and families that found each other.
On the noon news here in Orlando, they said Dr. Phil bailed one of the girls out and will pay for her attorney.
If I did that, my "OLD MAN", I think he meant me, would have killed me, if I had heard the first kid, he was probably right. I have always drawn the line.
Ted Bundy and Charles Manson weren’t 14 year old girls.
I vote Evil too...
These attacks/violence of girls on girls is on the increase of late
I had a roommate that giggled everytime something bad happened. She drove me crazy. One of us would be in pain over something but she just sat there and giggled, no matter how inappropriate.
Here is the link to a video showing the parents:
http://www.tampabays10.com/video/16x9/?aid=59579&sid=78082
I live in this area of FL. People here can be dirt poor.
Tack that onto the fact that I’m sure some of these kids have single moms, where they have to work two jobs and are never home to supervise, the kids grow up with “pack” morals because they were raised by their peers in the high school - it’s a disastrous recipe. The fruit of our modern society that has worked so hard to destroy the family.
I’ll bet none of these girls goes to church. The grandmother at whose home this attack occurred was at work, with 8 kids there. She doesn’t think the kids deserve jail, just a good talking to.
It’s amazing to me that whole segments of society live like this. And they probably all vote Democrat. Yes, they are people, but some people are trash.
Can I have her number?
can you provide a link? This would be very helpful to me.
Sick, put her in a room and make her listen to Yoko Ono until she repents.
If that doesn't staighten her out try playing "The Night Chicago Died" for a day.
Hate to say it, but nothing surprises me anymore.
True!!
Uhhh ... wasn't that exactly what Ted Bundy was doing?
Don't worry, buy that time you will be saved by "Soylent Green".
Just like Hollywood sick parents cashing in on sick kids.
No.
For acting out a fantasy, their lifes are ruined.
Their lives are ruined only if they allow them to be. They have a good start, now is the time to change course.
He belongs to the church of Oprah! No such thing as sin,but then he had to get out there in public to let everyone know what he did and then he can bring the girl on his show.
Don’t think Florida would give them opportunity to change course. Probably going to get 10+ years each if not more. Kidnapping qualifies for Death Penalty. Once in the “Corrections” system, I can’t imagine it having any positive impact on their lives.
Ted Bundy and Charles Manson weren’t 14 year old girls.
...but I’m betting, at fourteen both were well along in what would ultimately be their downfall.
Yes, it is. Bundy said in his 1989 interview he was acting out the fantasies he pulled from detective magazines featuring the torture and murder of beautiful women.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A Florida elementary school student was tasered Thursday after punching a school security officer during a fight.
The incident began when teachers at the Moss Elemenary School in Orange County confronted an 11-year-old girl for allegedly attempting to push another student into ongoing traffic outside the campus, MyFOXOrlando.com reported.
Authorities say the young female ignored the teacher and walked inside the homeroom, where she was again approached by teachers over her behavior. The student responded by thowing a desk and chair and attempting to spit on the instructor, according to MyFOXOrlando.com.
Donna Hudepohl, a school resource officer called to remove the troubled girl from the classroom, was allegedly pushed and punched in the face during a struggle to restrain her.
Hudepohl responded by tasering the girl.
The student was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, disrupting a school function as well as resisting with violence and is being held at the juvenile detention center.
Hudepohl was treated for a possible broken nose.
Last updated at 23:59pm on 7th March 2008
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The runaway teenager had told her parents she wanted to come home.
Perhaps 16-year-old Stacey Mitchell had had enough of sharing a house with two lesbians who thought of themselves as vampires.
But she would never make that trip. She had aroused the jealousy of one of her flatmates, even though she had been living with them for only 11 days.
So the two women drugged Stacey and then battered her to death with a concrete block. They also tried to strangle her with a dog chain.
When, 45 minutes after the attack began, she finally died, her killers celebrated with a kiss over her body - which they then dumped upside down in a rubbish bin.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=528483&in_page_id=1811&ct=5
This is just a tiny example...Evil is on the raise
When country has 50 million children killed through abortion and the count just keeps getting higher and higher,but where is the true outcry! That is why crimes such as this doesn’t mean much to some people. After all it’s nothing to kill a child so beating one up can’t compare. There is the mindset. Look at our leaders who fight so that abortion can continue and two of them proudly support partial birth abortion! And Obama wants them dead even after they accidentally are born alive to kill them. He is evil!
If I’d been the judge, I would’ve denied her bail. I mean, what the heck???, if a defendant isn’t taking things seriously, you’ve got to wonder if it’s wise to release her.
C’mon you are stretching a psychology of a demented Serial Killer to couple of teenage girls trying to be gangsta. This behavior doesn’t make them future serial killers. At worst its lack of adult supervision, combined with media perversion and extreme ADD.
The deserve to be punished, but I hope its not something stupid like 12-15 years. That is doing permanent damage to them.
Unfortunately Florida will try them as adults and while its the adults in these KIDS life who should be on trial.
Florida gave a 12 or 13 year old retarded kid who killed his playmate mimicking WWF life sentence. I think later on they changed that after their was outrage.
A simple message to those kids....
Well, that is definitely a point, but the way things are going these day, judges seem to apply more mercy on the perpetrators than the victim enjoyed. Time will tell. I don’t suppose either one of us would like to run into this pack after they spent 10 years being educated at Greybar U.
All six girls are led up to a door where 12 of the meanest, ugliest, smelliest bull dyke prisoners they could find are waiting for them. The first one is led in while the other 5 watch. The female prisoners slap and beat the living tar out of the girl for 2 minutes. Then the next one comes in, and so on so forth. Hell, bring the two guys involved along for the embarrassment. Maybe then they will see why the nation is outraged at their violent, stupid and evi acts.
Throw the book at them!
They need to be made examples that this is not tolerated.
I don’t care how young they are. There is no remorse and one in particular finds setting bail funny.
Sorry, they are evil kids. They are ALSO extremely stupid.
“You won’t believe this:
On the noon news here in Orlando, they said Dr. Phil bailed one of the girls out and will pay for her attorney.”
I would.
Dr. Phill likes ratings and probably has a deal with the freak. He’s a leftist. For awhile he was Oprah’s shrink. Dr. Phil sees $$$$$$$$.
I'm voting both evil and extra-stupid.
If they are “evil” then what category does Hitler fit in? Or are these kids at par in evildom with him?
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