Reileen van Kaile

Wltx.com: Cheerleader, Other Girls Beat Up Teen Girl, Tape the Crime

I first saw this on WGN Channel 9 because the kitchen TV was set to that station, but I couldn't find the news story on their site after a quick search, so it was Google time.

What confuses me and pisses me off even more than the six girls ganging up on this one girl (and laughing about it in prison afterwards!) is the mother of one of the assailants, for two reasons:

1) She's the one who lured the girl to the house in the first place, and
2) She was on WGN live saying that "this situation was blown out of proportion" and that the victim shares some of the blame too.

Holy fucking hell, the idiocy here is so gigantic it's visible from space ten light-years away! This is the second time in mainstream news (that I know of) where a parent has knowingly and willingly engaged and indulged in their teenager's adolescent revenge games, the first one being the mother who posed as a "hot guy" on MySpace who befriended her daughter's old friend and then convinced the friend (as the guy) to commit suicide. Guess that goes to show that some people don't ever grow out of high school.

Just...dude. What could the victim possibly have said or done that would have warranted a beating in which a mother, six girls, and two guys (acting as lookouts) participated in? Here's part of your answer:

Lindsay "embarrassed these girls," Garcia [mother of Mercades Nichols, one of the assailants] told News Channel 8. "She said she was going to kick their you-know-what's," and called them "slutty."

What? That it?

Even if the victim really did threaten and talk trash about her ex-friends (and considering how they behaved towards her in reaction to this alleged "slight", it's no wonder the victim considered them "ex-friends" even before this incident), what kind of mother, upon hearing the violence her daughter wants to commit, says: "Oh, sure, I'll help you out"? I think we can figure out where some of the girls learned their morals from. No, there is absolutely no justification for this sort of thing.

(Oh, by the way, if you do decide to actually stomach the video, you should know that apparently what's shown isn't the worst of what happened. Yeah. It gets worse.)

On a different perspective on the situation, the parents of the victim are of course blaming YouTube and MySpace, since apparently the intent of filming the crime in the first place was to try to humiliate the victim by posting it on those two sites and having it become a popular video. To the parents: I think you should be directing your ire more towards the questionable parents of the girls, especially the one who essentially said your daughter had it coming to her. To the girls: I don't think ganging up on a single girl is something you want to become famous for - although it's a bit too late for that now. Enjoy your orange jumpsuits; they probably fit you better than your cheerleading uniforms.

-Reileen
yeah, yeah, she thinks she's the victim

...Making Light and Dear Author bring you Lanaia Lee! Bonus: the author's e-lawyer sockpuppet lawyer/agent/witchy avenger Cheryl Pillsbury shows up in the Making Light comments! (Hoo-hoo!) But if the threat of black magick retribution weren't enough, you should be ashamed, ashamed I tell you, to even think of causing stress to a woman to a wheelchair-bound stroke victim who lost six children due to her hypertension! But seriously, Ms. Lee, if being on the internets is so dangerous to your health, maybe you shouldn't, you know, be on it?

Number #3 on Dear Author's "Top Ten Tips For Plagiarists" says it all: 3. Don’t advertise as writing “because I feel each person has something unique to share with the world and writing is my gift to share” when, in fact, your uniqueness is actually some other person’s uniqueness.

Ho-lee hell.

EDIT: A slightly different take on the situation can be found here. Apparently Lanaia's ghostwriter is a rather infamous scammer in the world of writing and publishing, so it appears that she may not be completely at fault here.

Still, the fact that she hired a ghostwriter and then can go on to say that writing is her gift to share is rather...special.

-Reileen
guess I'm wishing my life away with these things I'll never say