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Thread #68747   Message #1964948
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
12-Feb-07 - 12:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper
Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper
One wonders what kind of family these kids have grown up in? And will the parents be held accountable for their children's behavior?

10-Year-Old Girl Charged in Store Attack
From Associated Press, February 12, 2007

BOSTON - A gang of girls attacked a woman at a discount store, hitting and kicking her and tearing off her clothes, said police, who arrested a 10-year-old girl accused of being involved. The girl, who was not identified, was charged with assault and battery for kicking the 22-year-old woman in the head and stomach on Sunday, said Officer Eddy Chrispin. The three other girls were not arrested, but police said they would seek criminal complaints against them. Their names and ages were not released.

The woman apparently had bumped into the 10-year-old girl in an aisle at a Target store and refused to apologize, Chrispin said. Witnesses told police the four girls then knocked the customer to the floor "where she was being hit, her hair was being ripped out, and her pants were taken off," he said. The victim was treated at a hospital.