Quote Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat
The rule of the streets is: If someone hits you, you hit them back several times, much harder. They deserve to have the shit kicked out of them - enough to be hospitalized for a long time.
If we are going to look at this in terms of 'rules of the streets' then what those 8 kids did to the one girl is perfectly ok. She dissed them publicly so they kicked her ass publicly. Rules of the streets are for animals, not reasonable human beings.

Quote Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat

The are not "stupid like most kids". Most "kids" do not act this way.... These people are between 14 and 18 years old. That is certainly old enough to know that you don't attack people for fun.
No most kids do not act this way, but many do. Here in Philly most of the senseless violent crime is committed by juveniles. It is because they are stupid, that is the only reason to attack people for no reason.

I can never understand why people want to try minors as adults. There is a reason why there is a criminal justice system for minors, because they are not held as responsible or intelligent as adults. If a 15 year old steals some candy from a store he is tried via juvenile corrections process. If that same 15 year old hits a man in the head with a bat and kills him he would most likely be tried as an adult. What is the difference? A crime is a crime. Just because the crime is more serious doesn't mean the individual is any less a minor. If minors are charged as minors for some crimes but not others, why even have a court system designed for them?




Quote Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat
Whatever happens to them, will probably not be enough - because the victim has to live with this for the rest of her life.
You don't think a lifetime of having to bear such a horrible stigma is punishment enough? On top of that there will be tons of legal penalties the kids will have to face. The victim's physical wounds will heal for the most part, she will get over the psychological effects after a little time passes, her life will continue normally. The attackers on the other hand will never be able to live this down, and it happened to them at such a young age that their lives are pretty much ruined forever. They won't be able to go into public without feeling paranoid that people want to kick their ass.

Don't get me wrong, I feel for the victim, I have been the victim of violent crimes myself, and I think the 8 idiots who attacked that girl need to be punished, but come on, they just ruined their lives, they don't really need help from anyone else to do that anymore.