Girl sentenced to juvenile facility for assaulting autistic boy in Southern Maryland - Polidicks

[IMG]http://m.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_742w//2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2014/04/10/Others/Images/2014-04-10/DSC_51861397170276.jpg?type=mobile[/IMG] [url]http://m.washingtonpost.com/local/girl-sentenced-to-juvenile-facility-for-assaulting-autistic-boy-in-southern-maryland/2014/04/24/8287e6d4-cbd4-11e3-a75e-463587891b57_story.html[/url] [QUOTE]Before she was sentenced Thursday to a maximum of six years in a state juvenile detention center, the 15-year-old assailant of an autistic boy in Southern Maryland pleaded for leniency. The girl, who had used her cellphone to record the abuse, asked a St. Mary’s County judge if she could avoid jail and instead be placed in a community-based treatment program. But Judge Michael Stamm sternly rejected the Chopticon High School student’s request, declaring that her actions and those of her accomplice — which included luring the autistic 16-year-old onto a frozen pond, where he fell in multiple times, and encouraging him to try to have sex with his family’s dog — were “horrific.” The 15-year-old, he said, posed a danger to the community. In urging the judge to give the girl “intense long-term residential treatment,” St. Mary’s prosecutor John Pleisse said that authorities also have been investigating allegations that she and her friend bullied two other people — including a second disabled student at Chopticon. “We’re still investigating [one youth], and we know about another disabled person that was taken advantage of,” Pleisse told Stamm, using the alleged victims’ first names. The other girl involved in the case, Lauren A. Bush, 17, has been charged as an adult with first-degree assault, false imprisonment and child-pornography solicitation and, if convicted, faces up to 80 years in prison. Bush, who is accused of twice holding a knife to the boy’s throat, is undergoing several weeks of psychological examinations at a state juvenile detention center while she awaits a May hearing on whether her case should be transferred to a juvenile court. This month, the 15-year-old pleaded guilty to second-degree assault and displaying an obscene photograph of a boy. Stamm said she will be held at a secure juvenile facility until age 21 at the most but could be released earlier if authorities believe that her rehabilitation is progressing quickly. (The Washington Post generally does not identify juveniles in criminal cases.) In charging documents, St. Mary’s sheriff’s deputies say that the Chopticon girls repeatedly assaulted their schoolmate from December to March and that their acts were captured on the younger girl’s cellphone. The 15-year-old, dressed in a bright-pink hoodie and shackled at her feet and hands, cried throughout Thursday’s hearing. The girl wrote an apology letter to the parents of the autistic boy, but when she rose to speak before the court, the girl did not say she was sorry and instead only asked to avoid a jail. “I just feel a not-lockdown facility is going to be best for me,” the girl said. “Of course you do,” Stamm interjected with obvious sarcasm.[/QUOTE]

[quote]Before she was sentenced Thursday to a maximum of six years in a state juvenile detention center, the 15-year-old assailant of an autistic boy in Southern Maryland pleaded for leniency. The girl, who had used her cellphone to record the abuse, asked a St. Mary’s County judge if she could avoid jail and instead be placed in a community-based treatment program.[/quote] How about no and you burn in hell instead? I see no reason for leniency in this case.

[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;44641970]How about no and you burn in hell instead? I see no reason for leniency in this case.[/QUOTE] [quote]The 15-year-old, dressed in a bright-pink hoodie and shackled at her feet and hands, cried throughout Thursday’s hearing. The girl wrote an apology letter to the parents of the autistic boy, but when she rose to speak before the court, the girl did not say she was sorry and instead only asked to avoid a jail. “I just feel a not-lockdown facility is going to be best for me,” the girl said. “Of course you do,” Stamm interjected with obvious sarcasm.[/quote] Now that's one cool judge. Also these two girls are utterly disgusting, the shit they've done is just outright horrible to do to any human being, much less just because their victim(s) have autism (if that's part of the motive). And to simply go, 'I don't think jail would be best for me' to the judge after all this? They can go fuck 'emselves.

While what they did was horrific and disgusting I don't see any reason as to why they can't get jail time and be in a treatment plan. They obviously have some fucking issues that need to be addressed.

The other girl involved in the case, Lauren A. Bush, 17, has been charged as an adult with first-degree assault, false imprisonment and child-pornography solicitation and, if convicted, faces up to 80 years in prison might as well change it to life

[QUOTE=MR-X;44642022]While what they did was horrific and disgusting I don't see any reason as to why they can't get jail time and be in a treatment plan. They obviously have some fucking issues that need to be addressed.[/QUOTE] [img]http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/publications/discover/images/section-10a.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;44641970]How about no and you burn in hell instead? I see no reason for leniency in this case.[/QUOTE] Prison isn't a place to stuff people that did things wrong. It's supposed to rehabilitate. Putting a 15 year old girl in prison for 6 years is a massive fuck you. It doesn't rehabilitate anyone. All it does is drive them further off their path. Putting her on a treatment program with community service and a way for her to continue her education would be a lot better, both for her and her future. I understand it's a punishment, but putting a child in prison is not a punishment, it's fucking over a life. Especially at her age.

[QUOTE=joost1120;44643595] [B]Prison isn't a place to stuff people that did things wrong. It's supposed to rehabilitate.[/B] Putting a 15 year old girl in prison for 6 years is a massive fuck you. It doesn't rehabilitate anyone. All it does is drive them further off their path. Putting her on a treatment program with community service and a way for her to continue her education would be a lot better, both for her and her future. I understand it's a punishment, but putting a child in prison is not a punishment, it's fucking over a life. Especially at her age.[/QUOTE] If that's the only stipulation you've got supporting your argument, that's not right. In your [I]opinion,[/I] that's what Prison is [I]supposed to be.[/I] What prison is is a mix of both wrong-stuffings-ville and rehabilitation, mostly dependent on which side of things the caretakers of the prison happen to take. It would be nice if we lived in a world where you put bad people in prison and they came out as good people, but at the same time, that would be a huge disservice to a lot of people, particularly victims of heinous crimes. I do not think anyone wants Anders Bering Brevik to be merely rehabilitated in exchange for his crimes.

[QUOTE=Crazy Ivan;44643648]If that's the only stipulation you've got supporting your argument, that's not right. In your [I]opinion,[/I] that's what Prison is [I]supposed to be.[/I] What prison is is a mix of both wrong-stuffings-ville and rehabilitation, mostly dependent on which side of things the caretakers of the prison happen to take. It would be nice if we lived in a world where you put bad people in prison and they came out as good people, but at the same time, that would be a huge disservice to a lot of people, particularly victims of heinous crimes. I do not think anyone wants Anders Bering Brevik to be merely rehabilitated in exchange for his crimes.[/QUOTE] that's what is happening btw

[QUOTE=.Lain;44643662]that's what is happening btw[/QUOTE] Right, and there are a lot of people who are upset by that.

prison systems world over aren't all like the American system. some actually put effort in to rehabilitation which ultimately is the most humane choice to go with alongside a prison sentence [editline]25th April 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Crazy Ivan;44643673]Right, and there are a lot of people who are upset by that.[/QUOTE] ok? the Norwegian government is following their standards, and i don't see why they should be broken for anders. the norwegian people and governors elected these laws and systems in standards which have been proven to work, unlike the american ones