Teen assault conspiracy #2: Just lacking the YouTube
posted at 7:55 am on April 14, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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While the case of the teenage conspiracy in Florida to use a beating to achieve YouTube fame continues to gain national celebrity, another case in Kenosha, Wisconsin appears to have slipped under the national radar. One of the participants got convicted on Friday of child abuse, one of eight teenagers who lured a girl into a park in order to savagely beat and sexually assault her. Why hasn’t this received any attention? The conspirators weren’t stupid enough to videotape their crime:
Walker was one of seven teenagers charged in the October attack, in which the victim was beaten, stripped to her socks and sexually assaulted.
The victim had a shoeprint stomped into her face, suffered a concussion and had one of her eyes swollen shut.
She was beaten after two reported friends lured her out of her home about 1:30 a.m. with an invitation to smoke marijuana at Lincoln Park.
When the victim arrived, four girls kicked and punched her. One boy admitted sexually assaulting her with his finger, although prosecutors alleged that boy and Walker both ripped off the victim’s clothes.
The defense attorney in this case had to admit that Walker’s presence at the crime made him guilty of the abuse charge, at the least. He managed to keep Walker from getting convicted on the much more serious crime of sexual assault, as no one could prove that the penetration was part of the overall conspiracy. That kept Walker from getting sentenced to 40 years in prison; instead, he will only face seven and a half years.
The other participants in this thrill beating were:
- Ringleader and mother-of-two, Tashika Crosby (then 17, now 18)
- Johnathan D. McAlister (16)
- Jeremy Walker (16)
- Dedrick D. Stokes (15)
- Three unidentified female juveniles (all 14)
How much attention has this case received? Almost none. The only other report on this story that came up on a Google search was a three-paragraph AP notice at a Wisconsin television station’s website, which explained the motivation for the conspiracy: the victim befriended a boy her “friends” didn’t like. For that, they beat her so badly they left shoeprints on her face.
When can we expect to see the perps on a Jerry Springer show? When will Dr. Phil bail them out? (h/t: HA reader Mary M.)
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Just disgusting.
Mr. Bingley on April 14, 2008 at 8:00 AM
I can’t fathom stomping someone to the point of leaving a shoeprint on their face. This could have easily been a manslaughter case and the judge should view the sentencing with that in mind.
trubble on April 14, 2008 at 8:07 AM
Its stuff like me that makes me lose faith in society. I’m gonna be depressed all day.
jimmy the notable on April 14, 2008 at 8:10 AM
God help our children.
davidk on April 14, 2008 at 8:13 AM
Maybe I will go into criminal law. I would love to prosecute trash like this.
Troy Rasmussen on April 14, 2008 at 8:26 AM
Even Springer has a line he won’t cross. Dr. Phil? Not so much…
JetBoy on April 14, 2008 at 8:26 AM
What is wrong with kids today? ugh
Yikes! I sound like my parents!
becki51758 on April 14, 2008 at 8:28 AM
Two kids by age 17? Oy.
rbj on April 14, 2008 at 8:33 AM
This is actually unbelievable,one of these clown’s already
had a conviction of a violent sexual assault!
This should have gone to Defcon 4,after this sick idiot
was convicted,they should of chained ,handcuff’d and sent
this person straight to jail!
Any person who stomps on somebodys face is sick,while they get a light prison sentence,the other has braindamage,and
the same for that girl,she has to live with her own horror story for life!
So I think they should throw a person like this in a cage
with a p!ssed off Kodiak grizzly bear and be done with it!
canopfor on April 14, 2008 at 8:34 AM
Scum.
Jaibones on April 14, 2008 at 9:11 AM
Unfortunately, this kind of behavior can become a cultural norm quickly. Individualism, individual rights, and multiculturalism have undermined our school’s right to teach and enforce rules of decorum. If the creators of multiculturalism had studied anthropology they would know that brutality and rape are common. For this reason, if you want good behavior, you have to consciously teach it.
Upon what basis? Upon the Christian basis that we are fallen and need guidance and redemption. Upon the republican basis that protecting our fledgling experiment in self-government requires free people take responsible actions. By valuing the Western creations of the mind in the arts and technology. All of these compatable basis of Western consciousness can provide a culturist concensus. Obviously, we NEED to get over lingering differences and promote unity based on civility.
Multiculturalism’s “celebrate diversity” leads to diversity. It cannot provide right and wrong. As such, it should not be surprised when basic human patterns emerge. Sorry to be preachy and long winded, but this is horrid.
http://www.culturism.us
culturism on April 14, 2008 at 9:12 AM
I doubt the victim wants any. As much as I’d love to see her attackers lynched (not necessarily literally), I think the victim’s well-being has to come first.
Darth Executor on April 14, 2008 at 9:14 AM
The perps are black. You ain’t gonna see any big media coverage of this crime.
funky chicken on April 14, 2008 at 9:26 AM
Yes, but aside from video taping, this situation also involves different girls. The girls in Florida were cheerleaders with a relatively squeaky clean image.
The girls you describe here are smoking pot with a mother of two ringleader.
Esthier on April 14, 2008 at 9:29 AM
I can’t believe staffers from the Dr. Phil show bailed out the Florida teens. Who are these staffers? Is the media blitz this bonkers that these shows will compromise every last ethic to get a story?
gabriel sutherland on April 14, 2008 at 9:33 AM
As it was in the days of Noah…the earth was filled with violence.
wepeople on April 14, 2008 at 10:13 AM
I’m guessing with the name “Tashika” that this other situation was Black folks beating up and abusing this victim?
If so, that would be another reason why it is not open for discussion. Dumb White kids, Jews or Asians doing this and other hideous crimes would be news. Blacks, illegals and Muslims are off limits when they engage in bad behavior.
Hening on April 14, 2008 at 10:45 AM
Well at least the one who did the sexual assault got 12 years (but will probably only serve a couple. The SE corner of Wisconsin is the second most liberal area of the state. It is well known for gang activity going from Chicago to Milwaukee. Not a fun place to live (and it could be so nice in the summer along lake Michigan) I am glad the last of my family moved away from that area last year.
Corsair on April 14, 2008 at 11:48 AM
You can bet it it was White folks beating up Blacks we’d be seeing it every night all night on the TV. You know, typical White folks.
davecatbone on April 14, 2008 at 12:54 PM
Sing it Whitney! Ah baleeve that children are the future….
ronsfi on April 14, 2008 at 1:12 PM
Question I have is the racial make up of the perps, and the victim.
IF (big if) the victim is anything other than Black, this may very well have a racial component to it… and of course, the MSM will NEVER cover that…
Romeo13 on April 14, 2008 at 1:16 PM
Destroy the family, and the society will collapse.
- Lenin
The Communists in America want the destruction of the family. Destroy the family and the State becomes the nurturer … the provider. The State becomes more powerful.
Eliminate God and you make divorce, abortion and homosexuality more acceptable. And, it only follows that, upon the acceptance of same, the family is weakened and, eventually, destroyed.
This savagery is the result of the destruction of the family.
This is what the Communists want.
OhEssYouCowboys on April 14, 2008 at 3:44 PM
I hate to say it, I really do, but it’s true… they’re black thugs and incidents like this with the ilk involved really have little shock value because it’s, well, kind of old hat.
It’s sad, but it’s wholly and undeniably true. Sorry if anyone thinks that’s racist or whatever. But most people just aren’t all that amazed when a group of black thug gangsta’s tear eachother up for the most a$$anine of reasons. They do it ALL THE TIME. It’s just par-for-the-course in their “culture”.
The thuggish blacks probably wouldn’t be thought of as savages if they stopped acting like they are each and every day, day in and day out, and started taking responsibilty for their own actions rather than blaming whitey… or AmeriKKKa.
SilverStar830 on April 14, 2008 at 6:27 PM
Why has no one pointed out the most important leg of this story?
THIS WAS A LOT LIKE JENA SIX!
A group of students beat up another one viciously and are charged heavily for their crime. When will Pat Robertson give the word for us to march shouting “No Justice, No Peace!”
Micheal on April 14, 2008 at 7:20 PM
What about the boys who sexually assaulted a ‘mentally challenged’ girl, set her hair on fire, pissed on her, videotaped it, made DVDs of it and sold it to their schoolmates?
Reaps on April 15, 2008 at 12:41 AM
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