is it THAT hard to just be a kid? more teen attacks

[Hmph]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/27/texas. ... index.html

White teens accused of brutal racist attack
Hispanic boy left for dead

Thursday, April 27, 2006; Posted: 12:38 p.m. EDT (16:38 GMT)

SPRING, Texas (AP) -- Two white teenagers severely beat and sodomized a 16-year-old Hispanic boy who they believed had tried to kiss a 12-year-old white girl at a party, authorities said.

The attackers forced the boy out of the house party, beat him and sodomized him with a metal pipe, shouting epithets "associated with being Hispanic," said Lt. John Martin with the Harris County Sheriff's Department.

They then poured bleach over the boy, apparently to destroy DNA evidence and left him for dead, authorities said. He wasn't discovered until Sunday, a day after the attack.

The victim, who was not identified, suffered severe internal injuries and remained in critical condition Thursday.

Keith Robert Turner, 17, and David Henry Tuck, 18, are charged with aggravated sexual assault, investigators said.

Prosecutors are considering whether to attach hate-crime charges, but unless the victim dies, the possible penalty would be the same. If the boy dies and it is ruled a hate crime, the attackers could face the death penalty, authorities said.

The case has been turned over to the homicide division, Martin said, normal procedure in severe assault cases.

Authorities set bond at $100,000 for Turner and at $20,000 for Tuck.

Spring is a middle-class, largely white suburb of 36,000 residents, located about 10 miles north of the Houston city line.

and these kids who did the attacking come from a nice neighborhood. what was it HARDCORE to be chaufeurred around everywhere?

are the video games being played sending subliminal message or some shit like that? this is crazy.

my biggest concern as a kid was avoiding a known sex offender, getting to roller skating rink, finishing homework and cleverly skipping classes. oh and boys ok, a cute safe mormon boy....okay, okay.. I can't take the pressure...we all skipped school one day, got drunk at Henry's house, Randy P and Randy were there, and a couple of girls, but David and I just talked (actually we did, that's when I knew he was a decent person given what everyone else was doing. or maybe he didn't know how to make his move because all men are pigs...hmmm....)

but then there was that time me and some friends skipped out to the lake w/a a bag of pot...okay, yanno, I'm gonna get a lawyer...we'll pick this up later.

[MsNikaPooh]

WTF is up with kids these days. Friday afternoon after picking my kids up from the school carnival some guys in a car behind me and me had to stop 4 BIG, I am talkin High School kids from beating this boy who couldn't have been in more than the 6th grade. I drove the little guy home while these kids were taking on some grown men trying to get to my car at this boy. But funny thing was at least 6 cars where ahead of me and didn't stop at all. Someone called the cops and they wanted to arrest the men that were helping the boy out because they were defending themselves against these hoods. All I keep thinking was what if I hadn't came along they could have killed him. And they say I'm overprotective cause I won't let my boys walk a couple of blocks home from school.