Your Child’s Social Media Profile

Visitors Online

Who's to Blame?

 

Lay the blame where it belongs - with those who stood by and did NOTHING. Blame those who refused to cooperate with law enforcement and blame the parents who raised children without a moral compass, empathy or compassion.

11 comments to Who’s to Blame?

  • Stan

    Clap clap clap. True dat!!!!

  • C Morgan

    You hit the nail on the head, The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree! Children most often are a reflection of their parents and upbringing, or lack there of. Failing to instill basic morals, right from wrong, empathy, compassion, responsibility, manners, socially acceptable behaviors, accountability, and consequences, nor supervise and monitor is a “crime” against your children… For it’s society that is eventually forced to contend with, and we’re all a little busy!
    To later condone, make excuses for, lie, shield from repercussions, or simply not encourage to stand up/come forward when duty calls for… only supports the obvious. “It takes a village…” Mentality is sweet in theory, but in modern day, just not realistic. Especially when one fails to see what’s past their own frontdoor at face value of who they’re really relying upon. Choose your children’s friends wisely, it’s ok you’re allowed to and nd should do this! Over and out.

  • Blame not only perps and bystanders, but all who are complicit in placing coaches or teams or political reputation above what is simply right in this case. Many ethical problems are on display, especially the systematic enabling of team members to avoid logical, just consequences..

  • blackcats

    The need to belong is an extremely strong human need, particularly during adolescence. When added to a society with a questionable moral compass, something such as this is frightening, yet not completely surprising. It is shocking that none of the teens present or knowledgeable of the evening’s activities sought the counsel of a trusted adult. In most cases this would be a parent, but could also be a teacher, coach, minister, older sibling, or other family member. If such counsel was sought, the advice does not appear to have been on the side of “doing the right thing”, which brings this full circle.

  • We may never know how many of these teenagers did discuss the situation with someone outside their peer group. I am suspicious about what some adults may have told them, especially coaches.

  • UncleRay

    Here is a problem that I have about all this.

    This statement was in the Weirton Daily times dated Jan 18 2013 ;Marriane Hemmeter (special prosecutor) said the investigation and collection of witness statements were completed months ago.

    The probable cause hearing was held on Oct. 12 , 2012.
    Joann Gibb who performed the forensic exam of the cell phones testified that she was unable to recover deleted videos and pictures from the Iphone 5s (which were 4 of the 5 she testified about)

    The problem is that the software to recover deleted data from the Iphone5 wasn’t released until Oct 8, 2012.

    Dosen’t sound like they are going to reexamine the evidence.

    • Thanks for the info on the date of the software. This should help the media formulate some important direct questions. If they are not going to re-examine the evidence, we need to make that a public outrage

      • prinnie

        Agreed, and if they did not have the software to examine the phones WHY didn’t they send them to the FBI for exam?

        • Alice

          Why? Because violence against women is not a priority. If a gun had been used or JD had been killed, then maybe more investigation would have been put into this case. Instead, we have dicks and Iphones used as weapons. Oh yes, these boys intended to shame, belittle, degrade, rape and ruin her and post it for the whole world to see. Well, we saw alright. These boys incriminated themselves and presented the record of their ‘little fun” for all to judge.

          I pray for justice and the end of “boys will be boys” culture.

  • from the beginning of prinniefied up to now i applaud everyone who has stated their feelings and opinions and outrage.the recent blogs have been wonderful putting the blame where it belongs.so many inappropriate things have been said and what irritates me is the”big red family faithful” who dont see anything wrong with what has happened -you the faithful made this into a circus by not admitting what has happened and now the world is watching.i am tired of the good ole boys running this time i am tired of people getting favors for favors i am tired of racism if you are from the bottom of the hill or from the top of the hill color makes a difference in this town.i stray sorry lets have justice for this girl lets hope the school where she attends shows her support and her town