Can someone help me understand....

[R1Geezer]

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How can people be so relentlessly cruel, are these subhuman mental cases themselves? Have any potential for guilt, remorse, pity been removed from there tiny brains? What could this family have done to this pond life that they deserved to be given 15 years of misery, eventually being bullied to death? Will they just find some other weak family that they can feel brave enough to bully now? or will the final effect of their barbarity dawn on them and perhaps induce shred of remorse to trickle acoss their tiny mind?

[jake-the-peg]

Interesting comment from the police here:

Chris Tew, former assistant chief constable at the force, insisted it was difficult to bring prosecutions against the gang because it was not what the family wanted.

If they were treated like this and refusing to press charges (which seems to be the implication) I guess what was going through the "Tiny Brains" was "We're getting away with it" let's keep going.

The moral of the story seems to be "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" .

[ummmm]

If that was one of my children I'd beat shit out of them. Disgusting.

[jake-the-peg]

I'm sure those kids do have the sh1t beaten out of them regularly Ummm

Children tend to learn violent and bullying behaviour from their parents or older siblings

[ummmm]

Well you'll be glad to hear that I don't hit my kids....but I would if they were involved in something like that and they know it.

[zzxxee]

that is truly horrific this is why a lot of people have no faith in the jutice system where were the police?????????
may the girl and her mother indeed rest in peace x

[ummmm]

I agree Foghorn. There is noway that either me or my partner and half the neighbours would let that happen in our street.

I suppose a lot depends on what kind of area you're brought up in.

[Sqad]

Well, for what it is worth, I would not get involved in any fracas involving a gang, thank you very much.

This is a problem of policing and this seem to have failed despite repeated episodes of reporting.

The justice system should then take over.

The community has only two avenues to take:
1) Get physically involved (not to be recommended)
2) Call the police....which clearly produced no satisfactory response.

[sara3]

the police should have made the decision to pull in these oiks, not the family. anyone who has been bullied knows that things can escalate after reporting it.

I feel for them, their lives were made miserable by a bunch of ignorant idiots.. who in reality probably won't even feel their consciences being pricked.