[goldstategop]

What kind of country do we have where adults have taken complete leave of their senses who treat kids who engage in childhood horseplay as sex offenders and perverts? Oregon's Mike Nifong - Bradley Berry should be run out of the DA's office for trying to destroy two innocent kids lives. The man is both stupid and a moral imbecile.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Tribune7]

Bradley Berry should be run out of the DA's office for trying to destroy two innocent kids lives. The man is both stupid and a moral imbecile.

Yup.

[edweena]

Heaven forbid that the folks who prosecuted these boys ever see a waterbug in their bathroom. I’m sure they’d find it necessary to dispatch it with dynamite. Common sense has fled the land.

[onedoug]

I agree, but these are seventh graders whose parents should have taught them basic standards of decency.

[devolve]

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Pingeroo

[wanderin]

Only caught a short part of this on local news tonight.

The girls accepted an apology and the 2 boys were fined.

The 2 boys looked so out of place in the courtroom.

Not sure if there was more or not as I was passing through the room.

[doug from upland]

Bradley Berry mocked in song on YouTube - http://youtube.com/watch?v=lIQRox1E4Dk

[jazusamo]

Thanks for the excellent post. I’m very happy someone is speaking out on this, it was a travesty. This should have been handled at the school level without the police or DA involved. Berry and the pricipal and vice principal should be forced to resign, they overreacted.

[TChad]

Other reports of the Patton Middle School "Slap Butt Day" case, such as this one, mention that the girls engaged in the same behavior, but were not charged.

From the linked piece:

But police reports filed with the court said other students, both boys and girls, slapped each other on the bottom.

"It's like a handshake we do," one girl said, according to the police report.

[microgood]

What kind of country do we have where adults have taken complete leave of their senses who treat kids who engage in childhood horseplay as sex offenders and perverts?

Welcome to the New Amerika! Our solution to every little problem is to criminalize it. With only 5 percent of the world's population we have 25% of the world's prisoners.

Give it some time, and in 10 years if two 13 year olds do this the Feds will sweep in and they will get 25 years.

So sad to see the country I loved turn into a Gulag. Maybe we will get another good piece of writing like The Gulag Archipelago from one of these young men.

After all, this is what Americans want. The perp walk is our national march. History will not be kind to our generations.

[Mila]

” Now we will focus our attention on removing Bradley Berry from office.”

Good! This whole incident should have been handled in school. Nothing that these boys did rose to the level of a crime. Come to think of it, the principal of said school should be axed as well.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Ya know, the nuns wudda scotched something like “slap butt day” without saying a word, one look would have done it. And if they had called a kop it would have been to kick the bejesus outta his own kid.

The only time the district attorney came to our school it was for the Holy Name Society father/son breakfast. (Our district attorney had been a defense attorney portrayed in Alfred Hitchcock’s, “The Wrong Man”, and was something of a celebrity for it.)