The post immediately above reveals a Washington Post survey that shows that Police in America have been implicated in 1800+ sexual assaults on teenage girls. The first story is about a 14 y/o who was taken to the hospital by a cop for a rape kit exam, and was then raped by the cop on the way home.
For Christian America, this story and the other 1800 or so reveal a complete lack of the Fear of God. How do we rectify that with being a Christian country?
Parents of Missouri teen left convulsing after shocking
school beatdown break their silence: ‘Remain hopeful’
The parents of the 16-year-old Missouri girl who was viciously beaten and left convulsing on the pavement last week said they “remain hopeful” for a full recovery and thanked the public for the outpouring of support.
Kaylee Gain is still in critical condition and possibly suffering brain damage after her head was smashed into concrete during the sickening, caught-on-camera brawl near Hazelwood East High School on Friday.
“We are so grateful for the amazing medical staff who have been working tirelessly to give her the best possible chance at a full recovery,” the girl’s parents wrote in a statement appended to a GoFundMe started by a relative.
“We know she has a very long road ahead of her but we remain hopeful. We are so overwhelmed by all the support and love,” they added.
As of Thursday morning, the fundraiser had raked in nearly $3,400 of its $10,000 goal.
A second GoFundMe started by a family friend had also raised over $100,000 after increasing its initial $40,000 goal.
Gain’s parents’ update comes after the family friend, Sarah Hall, explained that they will not know the extent of the teen’s brain damage until she wakes up.
“The path to recovery will be extremely hard on the family,” Hall added.
The vicious fight broke out just blocks from the high school on Friday afternoon.
The disturbing clip shows Gain and another girl, who has not been identified, hitting each other before the girl shoved Gain to the ground and started pummeling her.
The girl repeatedly called Gain a “bitch” before smashing her head into the ground several times.
Gain was eventually left twitching on the pavement while the brawl continued around her.
The other girl, who is believed to be 15 years old, was later taken into custody.
Gain’s grandmother, Terry Nordstrom Thompson, called the attack “unforgivable” in an emotional Facebook post.
“We are beyond devastated for her. Senseless act of violence,” Thompson added in a reply to a comment on the post.
Just a few months ago, on December 14, the grandmother had wished Gain a happy 16th birthday with a carousel of photos from happier times.
Gain has a brother and a stepsister, the concerned grandmother responded to a commenter.
Her injuries prompted some lawmakers to call for the other girl involved in the fight to be charged as an adult and face maximum penalties.
“The criminal should be charged and tried as an adult. If the victim dies, that offense should rise to a homicide,” Attorney General Andrew Bailey wrote on X.
The other teen “must be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law,” Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe added.
James Crumbley, who bought gun used by son to kill
4 students, guilty of manslaughter in Michigan
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The father of a Michigan school shooter was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thursday, a second conviction against the teen’s parents who were accused of failing to secure a gun at home and doing nothing to address acute signs of his mental turmoil.
The jury verdict means James Crumbley has joined Jennifer Crumbley as a cause of the killing of four students at Oxford High School in 2021, even without pulling the trigger.
They had separate trials as the first U.S. parents to be charged in a mass school shooting committed by their child. Jennifer Crumbley, 45, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in February.
The verdicts — one each for the four victims — were read around 7:15 p.m. at the end of a full day of deliberations in Oakland County court.
James Crumbley, 47, who heard the outcome through headphones because of a hearing problem, slowly shook his head from side to side as the jury foreman said “guilty.” A sheriff’s deputy removed a dress tie from his neck, shackled him at the waist and returned him to jail.
Family of some of the fallen students wept quietly and gripped each other’s hands in the second row of the courtroom.
Later at a news conference, county prosecutor Karen McDonald stood next to them and praised their “unwavering courage” through extraordinary tragedy and grief.
“This verdict does not bring back their children, but it does mark a moment of accountability and will hopefully be another step to address and end gun violence,” McDonald said.
Defense attorney Mariell Lehman said James Crumbley “obviously feels terrible” about what happened at the school. He and his wife each face a possible minimum sentence of as much as 10 years in prison when they return to court April 9.
“While we are disappointed with the verdict, we know that the jury had a very difficult task in front of them,” Lehman told The Associated Press.
Prosecutors focused on two key themes at the trial: the parents’ response to a morbid drawing on Ethan Crumbley’s math assignment a few hours before the shooting, and the teen’s access to a Sig Sauer 9 mm handgun purchased by James Crumbley only four days earlier.
Ethan, 15, made a ghastly drawing of a gun and a wounded man on a math assignment and added disturbing phrases, “The thoughts won’t stop. Help me. My life is useless.”
But James and Jennifer Crumbley declined to take Ethan home following a brief meeting at the school, and staff didn’t demand it. A counselor, concerned about suicidal ideations, told them to seek help for the boy within 48 hours.
Ethan had told counselor Shawn Hopkins that he was sad over the death of his dog and grandmother and the loss of a friend who had abruptly moved away. He said the drawing was simply his jottings for a video game and that he wasn’t planning to commit violence.
But neither he, nor his parents, told school officials about the gun they had just bought, according to testimony.
Hopkins had hoped Ethan would spend the day with his parents. But when that was ruled out, the counselor felt the teen would probably be safer around others at school.
Ethan pulled the Sig Sauer from his backpack and began shooting later that same day, killing Justin Shilling, 17; Madisyn Baldwin, 17; Hana St. Juliana, 14; and Tate Myre, 16. Six more students and a faculty member were wounded. No one had checked the backpack, though a school administrator had joked about its heaviness.
“James Crumbley is not on trial for what his son did,” McDonald told the jury Wednesday. “James Crumbley is on trial for what he did and for what he didn’t do.”
He “doesn’t get a pass because somebody else” actually pulled the trigger, she said.
Hopkins told the jury that James Crumbley showed empathy toward his son during the meeting about the drawing but took no additional action.
When James Crumbley heard about the shooting, he rushed home from his DoorDash job and looked for the gun.
“I think my son took the gun,” he said in a frantic 911 call.
Investigators found an empty gun case and empty ammunition box on the parents’ bed. A cable that could have locked the gun was still in a package, unopened.
Ethan told a judge when he pleaded guilty to murder and terrorism that the gun was not locked when he stuffed it in his backpack.
Lehman, the defense lawyer, tried to emphasize to jurors that James Crumbley did not consent to any gun access by his son.
“He did not know he had to protect others from his son. ... He had no idea what his son was planning to do,” she said.
There was no testimony from experts about Ethan’s mental health, and no records were introduced. But the judge allowed the jury to see excerpts from the teen’s handwritten journal.
“I have zero help for my mental problems and it’s causing me to shoot up the ... school,” Ethan wrote. “I want help but my parents don’t listen to me so I can’t get any help.”
Now 17, he is serving a life sentence with no chance for parole.
Because his parents didn't listen to his cries for help!
After Judge Cheryl Matthews lifted a gag order that had prevented lawyers from speaking to reporters, Jennifer Crumbley’s attorney, Shannon Smith, declined to comment Thursday night, saying the community needs time to heal.
The father of one victim said after the verdict that more must be done to address gun violence.
“Our children are dying on a daily basis in mass murders, and we do very little about it,” Steve St. Juliana said. “We complain about Second Amendment rights or we say, ‘Well, there’s not enough money for mental health issues.’ ... We do not want any other parents to go through what we have gone through.”
Again, where does America's Christianity fit into this? I'm having a difficult time figuring that out.
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