I grew up in Blacksburg and something like this is very rare, but I guess times are changing everywhere.
Hope the recovery is speedy.

 

UPDATE

After a 4hr operation hes ok. he get to go home sunday. UVA is lending her a hospital bed to use b/c he cant sleep laying down, only sitting up. The school is going to pay for the majority and he little girls family offered to pay the rest (talk about an eternal guilt trip). My friend declinded their offer and is trying to make the boys family pay for it ALL...little shithead should. While hes recoevering at home he gets 4 in home private nursees catering to his every need. That family aint gonna pay for shit and they shouldnt...as far as the boy..my friends lawyer is pushing for lock up till hes 21 then off to a real prison (dont kow how far thats gonna go but its worth a shot. ).


THANK YOU EVERYONE.

 

I hope the little shithead gets locked up.

 

+1 Kids dont know what consequences are these days.

 

Gald to see he's goin to be ok.

 

I'm really glad to hear he's going to be ok. I agree that neither his family or the girl's family should be paying for anything.

I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but I think locking the kid up till he's 21 is a bit extreme. Yes, he needs to understand that there are consequences, but I would like to think that a 12yo can be rehabilitated without ruining the rest of his life. Of course, I don't know this boy's history, maybe this is just one more incident in a long string of violence, then of course some time in a juvenile facility might straighten him out. Hopefully this is a wake up call to his parent's as well, because to me it's obvious that there is a serious lack of discipline/guidance in this child's life.

 

I agree. Unless there's more background to it, locked up 'til 21 is extreme... There have been people to get less time for actual murder. Lock the kid up for a long while, and let him know this is strike one of three. Two more fuck ups and he stands in front of the firing squad.

 

do you have kids?

 

I understand the anger of having experienced this...

but working with "correctional kids" the current correctional program is... stick them with other troubled/violent people I have learned that this just makes things worse

When they do get out they will repeat the offense, no question about it. instead you keep the kid under a house arrest and have physiological evaluation (at the parents expense) and you will start to condition the kid NOT to act violently, its never garunteed to work but its possible. why? I work for the Roanoke City Schools I see kids every day fight and steal stuff you stick them with other kids who do the same crap and they just want to do more to be "better" than the other kids they are stuck with.

Our current government way of dealing with things is putting them away and ignoring them... doesn't even work in theory...

Hope Jeri makes a full and speedy recovery

 

Having kids has nothing to do with it...

The correctional system is a joke. You can't rehabilitate someone unless they want to change. You can't make them change. You can take them out of society and let our tax dollars give them what is often times a better life than they would have in society. The kid is what, 12 years old? Is it an isolated incident or does he have a violent history?

Where do you draw the line? What if it was someone elses kid other than your friends? What if the victim was the one that initiated the fight? You know, there are so many things to take into consideration. In the grand scheme of things, I don't think it would be fair for him to get more time than a murderer might get in some cases. The system works in a weird way. This is apples to oranges, but there were two cases before me in court where the defendants were charged with DUI's and marijuana... Two SEPARATE cases! I got jail time for speeding. Want to guess what they got? Both of them automatically had the marijuana charges dropped with no questions asked... They were both sentenced to take ONE alcoholics anonymous class, pay one SMALL FINE, and served no jail time after the judge suspended 100% of it. They wouldn't serve a single day in jail, and the incident would NOT go on their record provided they did the AA class and paid the fine. I GOT JAIL TIME FOR SPEEDING!!! The likelyhood of them becoming repeat offenders is high, and they will probably eventually kill someone. I don't know if you see where I'm going with this or not, but I don't see the logic behind the way punishments are decided. There should be a benchmark that they uphold for each individual crime. There would still be variables, but at least you wouldn't have to worry about spending more time in jail for threatening someone than actually killing them. You know?