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A group of teenage girls beat up a mentally disabled woman in Delaware County, Pa., made video of the attack and posted the clip to Facebook, according to Chester police.
In the video, which was obtained and published by the Delco Times, a group of six girls approached the woman, who was sitting on her stoop.
One of the attackers started punching the 48-year-old woman. The attack then moved inside the home, where the teens continued punching her with their fists and hitting her with chairs, among other things.
Police say the beating happened near 12th and Morton Streets Tuesday around 9 p.m. in Chester. The suspects are 16 and 17 years of age.
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The victim suffered cuts and bruises on her face but did not get medical help, according to police.
Len Worby, one of the victim's neighbors, told the Delco Times the attack was the second in two weeks.
“She got beat up about two weeks ago,” Worby told the newspaper. “Someone hit her over the head with a gun.”
A local parent saw the video on Facebook Thursday morning and tipped off police.
Police say they tracked down four of the teenage girls in the video. Two of those arrested are sisters, according to the Delco Times. The Associated Press reported they were charged as adults with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, burglary and harassment.
"The parents are upset," one of the officers told the Times. "The girls are defiant. It's like they didn't do anything wrong."
Investigators say they're searching for two more girls who they believe were involved.
"Their behavior is animalistic to this poor woman," Delaware County District Attorney Jack Whelan told the Times. "We are going to aggressively prosecute each of them for their callous indifference to this woman."
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"The parents are upset,"
This is the best line in the whole article. I wonder what they're upset about, the fact that they got caught?
What a surprise, violent African American Girls.
Throw the book at them...jail for life.
what they need to do in jails , like i said a long time ago, cut down 3 meals to 1 meal a day.. see how fast they straighten up and die.. people overseas are dying from no food and here we feeding them full bellies..
Ok Jesse Jackson...what excuse can you give these animals for doing what they did.
NAACP, any comment.
**crickets**
It is nighttime, and these teens should not be allowed to walk the streets after dark.
Their parents are not holding them accountable.
What their parents failed to teach them, their sentence will teach them.
they don't think they did anything wrong? good...treat them like the animals they are and let them sit in some state prison for the next couple years. Maybe some sense will come to them.
Sick, just plain sick.
It sounds like the neighbors were watching out for the woman. I believe it said it was the neighbor called the cops when she was hit with a gun earlier, and beaten this time.
Sounds to me that the families of the girls should be forced out of the area.
I just wonder why the government hasn't come up with a "Bad Parenting" tax yet. What a way to work on the deficit.
Like I said before and I will say it again PARENTING has nothing to do with this.... it does not matter a rich parent that takes care of their child punishes their child and give their child college does not mean that child will be president SO DO NOT blame the parents these Children are no longer children THEY ARE ADULTS and should be treated as such.
"Sounds to me that the families of the girls should be forced out of the area." what's happening is the other way around.. just like in detroit, and many other cities,,, violent blacks are running out the white people.. it's all part of their "plan"...
Bringing slaves was the united states worst mistake.
Kill them. If this is how they act, we do not need them.
People of every color do this type of thing, and all of them need to be killed.
Isn't attacking a mentally challenged person a hate crime? WHERE is the outrage .. They should be charged with that which is a Federal offense.. Probably will never happen though.
i hope that the girls in the county jail fk these sad excuse for girls/ ladies/ women up .. they deserve tp ge the exact same beating .they deserve to be treated like the fki animals they have shown the worl on you tube to be... my one question for all the b i t c h s
IS IT STILL FUNNY ???
Not only should they all be tried as adults but it should be elevated to a "HATE CRIME". Bunch of racist black girls (animals) Where is Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpchit or the NAACP now?- why are they not crying foul like in Florida? Oh thats right the crooks here were all Black, we don't want to offend them. Like they don't do hate crimes - yea right.
I bet you DO NOT see national news coverage of this every day on the news for the next two weeks - lets just sweep this under the carpet.
exactly,, our cowardly liberal media certainly doesn't want to report on any black on white crime,,it might make black people "feel bad"...
Time to show our support for the victims just like the school bus monitor who was verbally abused by the other group of kids. Start a website for donations for this poor woman. Let's show these girls who WINS and who LOSES (their freedom!) in this case! I still have faith in the good people of the U.S.
Throw the book at them! Their parents should be held accountable as well....
Nope nope...... parents can't do anything anymore 'cause then its just child abuse...... besides these girls are practically adults they should be treated as such.
STOP welfare now!!! End the breeding of savage beasts like these girls.
RACHEL
You fall in the very same category as they do spewing Hate........but I bet your Dumb Trashy A-s can't see that. People like you have done this kind of Sh-t just because someone is different. How do you know they are on Welfare? STFU!!!
Come on! Do you value the truth or not? You KNOW they were born and raised on welfare. And their daddies are nowhere around.
It's RACIST not to admit the truth. I bet your dumb ASHY A-s can't admit that!
It's welfare that destroyed the tight-knit family-oriented black communities that thrived prior to the "Great Society."
Your filthy cursing mouth reveals someone probably raised on welfare and raising her kids on welfare!
Sigh.... People like these just make me sad...... I wish the government would bring back public shaming or some type of public punishment. So that people understand that things like that is just plain out wrong and disgusting..... I'm sure it would bring down some of the evil people do.........
The problem with the type of mentality we're dealing with when speaking of these girls is that public shaming will only empower them more. It gives them recognition for doing something heinous and that's what they thrive on (why else would they have done a video and posted it on-line).
The best way to deal with them is a speedy trial, a maximum sentence and, as a bonus, forced sterilization so they can't reproduce any more scum.
noone should be shocked by this article. Its Chester.. more days than not out of the year they have a curfew for minors because of the vast amount of violence there
Sad, very sad that this is the only way these young female adults could entertain themselves.
Doesn't say much about this Country as we are reading more and more about the violence that is sweeping over this Country.
It's no wonder that gun manufacturing can't keep up with demand.
"We are going to aggressively prosecute each of them for their callous indifference to this woman."
As it SHOULD be!
You have to wonder who were the real mentally disabled persons in this incident.
Bullies are bullies regardless of their belief system or country of origin. Those who harm the vulnerable are cowards and nothing more.
They should be charged with a hate crime against the disabled. But the perps were black so they probably won't
What does race have to do with anything? It's attitudes like yours that fuel the seperation between races because you want to pigeonhole people due to their skin color.
"What does race have to do with anything?" as usual,,, that's what you liberals say after EVERY black on white crime! why didn't you feel that way after the trayvon martin incident? liberals=hypocrites!
Many don't believe in charging minors as adults, however, these types of crimes are ther reason we have to do so. I would also like to see the parents of these "children" held accountable as well. If my teen acted in that fashion, I would be the first person to call the cops. If that makes me a bad person, so be it. I would rather sacrifice my broken child than put someone else in danger.
KING
You sound Stupid, what does Race have to do with this?
I can't even imagine what I would do to one of my kids for some Crap like this. And if they were involved I wouldn't even get them an attorney, I would let the courts do as they pleased. That Poor Woman didn't stand a chance with these little B-tches.
Nobody can defend these Monsters, they should Jail them for as long as they can.
Ask Jesse:
There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.... After all we have been through. Just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating.
This is the result of children raised by the television where people get away with any kind of bad behavior. They learn to take whatever they want and act however they want with no consequences. Their parents are absent in their lives or are too busy trying to support their families to keep track of what their children are doing. You have to love your kids but also be aware of who they hang out with and what lessons they are learning outside the home. They may still make bad choices and if they do then, as parents, we need to make sure that they pay the piper no matter how much it hurts because otherwise they will keep repeating the bad behavior.