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Jennifer Edwards Baker / The Enquirer
Pat Mahaney, 45, was treated for internal wounds at a local hospital for four days before his release Tuesday. Police said doctors had to insert a tube down his throat to remove all of the blood from his stomach.
A man in Ohio was severely beaten by six teenage boys who said they did so because they were bored, police allege.
Pat Mahaney was walking home from the store in North College, Ohio, Saturday with a six-pack of beer, looking forward to a quiet evening watching sports, when something hit him in the back of the head.
“They came from behind. They hit me,” Mahaney told the Cincinnati Enquirer. “I don’t remember telling them anything.”
Police said the six boys, ages 13 and 14, “were just bored and looking for something to do” when they ambushed Mahaney from behind. He was immediately knocked unconscious. During the attack, one of the boys hurled a beer can at Mahaney’s head, police said.
“The next thing I knew I woke up on my neighbor’s front step and the life squad was there,” Mahaney, 45, said.
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An officer responding to another call spotted a crowd of people gathered near Mahaney’s home. Several witnesses told the officer Mahaney was covered in blood after being “jumped by six children,” the police report said.
Mahaney was taken to Mercy Mount Airy Hospital, where he was treated for four days before being released Tuesday. Police said doctors had to insert a tube down his throat to remove all of the blood from his stomach.
A tube remained in his right nostril as blood continued to seep out of his head, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported, and his left eye is heavily blackened.
Police said the teens admitted that Mahaney had done nothing to provoke being kicked and punched repeatedly in the face while he lay helpless on the ground. One of the boys allegedly told police they only stopped assaulting Mahaney when a neighbor began yelling at them and said he was calling police.
“They were pretty arrogant in the interview with us,” North College Hill Police Chief Gary Foust said of the teens. “This appears to be premeditated, and there was no remorse on behalf of any of the assailants.”
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The boys were arrested and taken to Hamilton County’s juvenile detention center, where they were released a short time later. They face felony charges of aggravated riot and felonious assault and are on house arrest at their parents’ houses, court officials said.
“I didn’t think kids could do something like this," Mahaney said. "They should be punished.”
Mahaney said he has no health insurance and has been unemployed for years. He said he has been looking for factory work.
The boys are scheduled to appear in court Aug. 24.
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These are the kind of crimes where public caning should be the punishment. Televised.
I'll bet the parents are good for nothing as well. These little thugs should be horse whipped. Shame on there parents and family for raising garbage. Throw them in a cell with some hardened criminal and lets see what they will do then. Put the parents in jail also. Worthless human beings.
Let's see now. President Obama did it. Poor unemployed fellow, been looking for work for years, on welfare and foodstamps. I'm sure he used those foodstamps for beer, had too, how else was he gonna get beer? lol. He should have been working is all I say. Who does that sound like? hummmmmm LOL you people.
Oh yeah, I forgot. What did he do to those kids before they hit him with the beer hummmm? Let's wait for the facts LOL
Canning comes to mind.
no mention that the kids were all black???? HATE CRIME???????
You don't understand, only whites do hate crimes. You have to have a victim mentality.
I've been bored from time to time as a youth but never would have thought of doing others harm because I'm bored. Back when I was their age (I'm almost 50 years old), if a group of kids did this, they would be punished much more severely than they are now. The parents wouldn't be backing them up. They most likely would be ashamed on their behavior. Back then going to a juvenille facility was a scary thing just as going to prison would be, scary something to avoid. You didn't get out the next day or a couple of hours later. Today, kids don't really care. There also no real deterrents to these acts of crime whether you are an adult or a juvenille.
Politicians threaten to get tough with indiviudals who commit crimes by passing strict laws, but unless you enforce these laws, they aren't worth much. That's the problem when it comes to violent crime in general. Someone who smokes marijuana often gets a harsher sentence than someone who beats the crap out of someone. Punishment often doesn't fit the crime.
Violence has been around since the beginning of time. It's easy to blame violent movies (which were around when I was younger), celebs and sports stars behaving badly (this was also around but it wasn't reported or it was covered up) but it goes a lot deeper than that. Acts of violence that weren't tolerated years ago or would have resulted in a very long prison sentences or a prison sentence doesn't usually happen, even in murder cases.
The difference between when I was a kid and now is that you were held accountable for you're actions which I know deterred many acts of violence. The parents cared about how they were perceived as the reputation of the family was very important to most people which also was a deterrant to crime. Nowadays, it seems like a bad reputation is more important.
These kids who beat up this man were troubled long before this happened. You don't wake up one day and decide you are going to do this. Events happen which led up to this. It's very rare for someone who has never been in trouble or who isn't know to cause problems to commit this type of crime.
It's a good thing for him that he didn't fight back and successfully defend himself. Then he'd be the dirty, rotten, no-good white boy who beat up a group of po' helpless black kids.
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I'm older than you and I agree with you. To be candid, if I screwed up in school or got in trouble with the police, I was more fearful of what my father would do than anything the school or police would.
I'm not saying my dad didn't back me up, he did without question. But he made sure I knew THEIR punishment would be nothing compared to what I would get from him. Makes one toe the line and play by the rules.
Why don't they mention that the kids were black??
NBC political correctness.... and extreme bias.
Trust me...the parent of these ghetto gangstas don't care...they keep dropping them on us in pursuit of money, food stamps and drugs
Aw, c'mon. It's just a group of li'l misundahstood, down-trodden po' chillun havin' some fun. Give 'em a chug of iced tea and a bag of Skittles and let them go. At leas' they di'nt hurt no brothah.
"They were pretty arrogant in the interview with us"
Prison will change them of that.
I never will understand why the victims name and photo are shown yet the people who commit the crime, especially if they are "underage", are protected and not shown?
They likely will never see prison. They'll be released on probation to their "parents", who will give 'em an "attaboy" and nothing more will be done.
With us? wow....talk about job security. And if you don't know the answer to that question lord help us.
I'm tired of all the BS in the world, the shootings, beatings, face eatings, you name its... it's time for 'eye for eye, tooth for tooth' justice. Crazy fvcker opens fire in a theater, shoot/kill him.. done. Kids gang up on guy and beat to hamburger meat, jump each one and beat the piss out of them...done...guy eats face off another guy, pour acid on his face...done.. I could go on and on. MY taxes and YOUR taxes are keeping people who have no apparent regard for life ALIVE IN PRISON... anyone see the IRONY, no regard for others lives but WE fund keeping these bastards alive?
Sue the parents?!?!? They don't know their parents. I guess these were the basketball scholarship rejects.
How nice of MSNBC to omit that fact that all the suspects were black. There is no doubt if the situation were reversed, Al Sharpton and company would been headed down for protests. However, when the victim is white, no worries just "youth" , randon act of voilence, race was not a factor. BS!
To bad this guy didn't have a baseball bat close by when this happened. He might have been able to drop at least one of these punks. I hope he's sues the hell out of the parents.
...and they're all black, wow what a shock.
When they say "short term memory" they really knew what they were talking about. When they say Selective Memory" I know Exactly what they were talking about. Wow and you all can look in the mirror on both. Oh I forgot President Obama did it. You will be happy to know I'm done with posting on any sight. I'll be out there making sure that the Chains you people speak of will Never happen. It's sad it has come to this.
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Hopefully the system will deal with these kids swiftly and severely.
They do need to show these kids that it will not be tolerated. Hopefully they will.
dont count on it. "They are good kids" They have never been in trouble before" ya da ya da ya da
Not much information given in this article. Funny that they say nothing about If the kids were other then white. Hate crimes are not published much if the person being attacked is white.
tiredinath.ga.
Can you say NBC editing?
Click on the link to the Cincinnati Enquirer (linked within the article). It is a better story with more details.
Shocked that all the teens involved were black, shocked I say.
Ship these little ba$tard$ off to Cook County Jail.
Dress them in pink panties, matching bra and paint their faces up with makeup real pretty like.
Sentence them to 5 years - have each one spend a night in a different cell with the current occupant(s).
Trust me, they will never be bored and they will always have something to do.
Case closed - Problem solved.
Give 'em breast implants first.
Subhuman filth with absolutely no possibility of redemption. None. Zero. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a delusional idiot and an enabler of this kind of behavior. These punkazz bitchbois should all be fed into a wood chipper feet first, one at at time, each forced to watch their predecessor go right in front of their eyes, so they know what's coming. How many punks could a punk-chipper chip, if a punk-chipper could chip punks? Scum of the earth, the lot of them!
love all these people shouting ignorance when the simple fact of the matter is that if this was a black man that was assaulted by 6 white kids it would MOST DEFINITELY be a hate crime and the black community would be up in arms. This. Is. The. Truth.
When is anyone going to realize the hypocrisy here!?
I do realize this as do others , it is the political culture we live today. This past year across the country there have been over 60 documented cases on "black on white" attacks. Philly, Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Peoria, Denver, Virginia Beach, Richmond Va Cincy, on and on. These go largely unreported by the liberal media, if it is covered as this story is, race in not mentioned. There is an undeclared war on white people- most folks are just unaware or unconcerned because it has not directly affected them...yet
Celtic. It is justice served NBC style. Trayvon died so obviously white people should be targeted. They built up the whole Zimmerman which-hunt. They really have the liberal blinders on. They might have even directly motivated this kids to do this atack. NBC should be banned as a hate group.
The Department of Justice should be investigating this as a hate crime! Why does it always seem to only become a big deal media circus when its "white on black" violent crime that then gets turned into a "hate crime" but when its "black on white" violent crime there is no mention of it being a hate crime it gets marginalized into something like, as in this case, just some "bored kids" with nothing else better to do than beat up on someone! I wonder did these kids beat up on anyone else? Did they beat up on any black victims? I'll bet the answer is no to beating up on any black victims. Rev. Al & Jessie - any comments?
Two words..Eric Holder. What a useless p.o.s. of an Attorney general. A pathetic disgrace!
I pack a gun wherever I go. Guns are great equalizers.
A gun in their faces would have sent them scattering like roaches, but these thugs knocked this guy out from behind. If he'd had a gun, they might have gotten ahold of it. Juat saying.....
John. They waited for the weakest white man they could find. I bet this wasn't their first victim.
I agree that these kids are little monsters and should be punished for their actions, but please stop assuming that they don't have a father in their home and that they were not taught right from wrong. No one questioned these things regarding the Colorado shooter or the neo-Nazi shooter in Wisconsin. Why? However it really doesn't matter, because at the end of the day, a crime against society is just that, a crime. Questioning someones upbringing or color is just a self motivator for those who hold certain stereotypical views.
Those shooters are mentally ill. The black culture is deranged. Big difference.