Ivy League Teen Pistol-Whipped Mom To Buy Her a Car
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FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Authorities in southwest Florida say a 17-year-old girl pointed a gun at her mother, pistol-whipped her and forced her to drive to a dealership to buy her a used car.
The sheriff’s office in Lee County said Monday that the teen has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill, among other counts, and was being held at a juvenile detention center. The Associated Press doesn’t identify minors charged with juvenile crimes.
According to officials, the mother said she didn’t want to press charges because her daughter had been accepted to several Ivy League schools.
Authorities said they decided to arrest the teenager after learning that the gun had been stolen last year. The teen was not charged in that crime.
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Comments (125)
VLADTEPES
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:12amYou said it CATB, California blows…
Report Post »louise
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:08amthe mom didn’t want to press charges because this girl was accepted to ivy league schools.
Report Post »If she were my child, and wanted a car, I would have said GET A JOB!
Tagudinian
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 5:59amThis is the making of a modern day b*tch who will commit crimes way beyond just pistol whipping her mother. This child needs to be reformed in the harshest way possible – like perhaps not allow her to drive or to roam freely. It is obvious that the mother is afraid to press charges. How pitiful. Some parents are just so inept.
Report Post »BobParker2003
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 5:42amAt least the authorities if not the Mother did the right thing with this. Wow is an understatement!
Report Post »HellAndBack
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 5:34amI had one very clear altimatum when I was younger… Dad said “You wanna be the one in charge here? Meet me in the back yard and TAKE my house from me.” At 15 I wanted to go over a friends house and we had relatives coming, so he said “No, Family First!”… I challenged him (I was a green belt after all)… My dad WHOOPED my ass and I NEVER to this day will EVER Challenge him. Not because of the Ass Whooping and I mean WHOOPing. But because He Forgave me and said he will always do whats best for me … Even if He dont want to. Man that Country Man hit Hard. and Loved Harder. When simple respect fails, a LITTLE fear will get you through.
Report Post »alina.bolero
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 5:19amA progressives dream scenario! Kids so conditioned to expect entitlements that they are willing to revolt against their own parents. Wow! She is DEFINITELY Harvard material! LOL
Report Post »jim
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 4:50amA good candidate for being appointed to the “death panels” of Obamacare. Need to be able to kill your own mom for that job…
Report Post »greyrider
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 4:14amI lived in various parts of Floriduh for about ten years and every time I read stories like this I think of a transient (Skinny Pete) I would talk/drink to/with and in particular a little nugget of wisdom dribbled from his lips like so much cheap beer: ‘all the nuts roll downhill to Florida.’
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 3:55amso this juvenile delinquent – in the USA – uses a stolen weapon – to pistol-whip her mother – and gets no charges?
must be an illegal alien…..
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 4:45ammust be an illegal alien…..
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And she was accepted to Harvard. She sounds just like all those Harvard lawyers in DC.
Report Post »axel@25
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 3:40amI’ve witnessed the way some of these kids are treated by overly controlling parents, almost to the point of physical torture. Frequently the result is suicide, but sometimes these kids just “snap”. After many years of promised rewards for top performance not being given due to tiny made up “failures”, they can just explode. Imagine in 18 years having never gone to a friends birthday party..ever. Being required to forgo hobbies, sports, or friends. no TV, No popu;ar music, for your entire life, working to become the highest ranked student in your school….Then, you’re told the reward promised you was being denied, because last week you dropped a pot in the sink and startled your grandfather.
I think the “Tiger Mom” behind this future Ivy Leaguer may be re-thinking some of the verbal abuse, and lack of socialization of her daughter over the last 18 years.
terrible and unfortunate …yes, But, don’t get on the cops for not pressing charges……..
Report Post »THEY’VE MET THE MOTHER !
SusieLovesArt
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:55amThis is probably closest to the truth. I’m surprised it did not end in complete tragedy.
Report Post »CaptainSpaulding
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 3:35amJust another day in Obamaland.
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 3:16amThe mother would be doing her daughter a favor by charging her with the crime. Now this girl will see her mother as weak and she will go on to victimize her further. Her daughter may very well be on drugs.
This girl definitely needs to be taught a lesson.
She also needs counseling!
In the meantime the mother must find a way to protect herself from her daughter.
Report Post »DaveOregon
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 2:24amDon’t expect the father to have her charged – I‘m betting he’s part of the problem. The mother? – hell, the father probably beats her or intimidates her unmercifiully – daughter is just doing what daddy does or allows. Children’s Services has to get involved now to find out what is going on in that house. You can say -spoiled brat – but as a Foster PArent – I’m betting daughter is sexually abused, daddy’s doing it- and momma is turning blind ey. See it a lot. If I’m wrong – and she’s justa spoiled little bitch – DA should go for the max and parents should demand it – because if not – next time she‘s going to kill’em.
Report Post »Navyveteran
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 11:48amThat is unfair blaming the father when you don’t know the facts. My daughter which is 8 back talks her mother and is disrespectful as well to her mother. I think she picked this up at school. But she knows not to do that to me or with me around. I keep telling my wife that she must discipline for negative actions toward my wife. But my wife allows that behavior which is strange because my wife is filipino, and they have some cool ways to beat on their kids ;)
Report Post »SchrambaJamba
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 2:08amI blame Bush!
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 2:00amAs a man with a little brother and father who are both Cornell and Harvard Business school grads, I can assure you there are many many conservatives in the Ivy League and like Hollywood they just keep it cool to themselves.
But these mutts they let through today are Obama affirmative action quota tokens who prove that AA is a dangerous thing that lets people of low character into high places they have no business being close to. enuff said.
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 2:05ammeant to read “OBAMA-LIKE affirmative action …”
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 2:42amAA?
Oh. Affirmative action.
At first I thought you meant Alcoholics Anonymous!
Report Post »mrlogan3
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 1:22pmWas it affirmative action when I (black) got into Cornell?
Report Post »gramma b
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:55pm@ Mr. Logan — only you know the answer to that question. Only you know whether your grades and test scores would have gotten you admitted in a color blind system. I can tell you that, when I got admitted to law school, there were a lot of fellow 1L’s who assumed that I had gotten in with lower grades, because some women were, in fact, admitted using a lower standard. I couldn’t blame them. They had no way of knowing what my undergraduate grades and LSAT scores were. When the first semester’s grades came out, it shut them up. But, I couldn’t blame them for wondering initially.
Report Post »gramma b
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:24pmMr. Logan. I got distracted and didn’t include one point of my previous post. One of the insidious effects of affirmative action — aside from the obvious unfairness of giving unearned advantages to someone based on skin color or gender — is that those in protected groups who DO make it on their own merits often don’t get credit for it. Everyone always wonders whether they were admitted as a result of affirmative action, or because they actually had the smarts and the record to get admitted, regardless of skin color or gender.
Report Post »TheyCanTakeOurLives
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 1:53amSuddenly, my daughter sneaking candy and cookies without asking seems sort of trivial. I have to remember to give the kids extra hugs in the morning.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 2:37amI was afraid of getting killed for that, too. My parents were not abusive (well, Daddy wasn’t), but I surely knew not to piss either one of them off.
I cannot imagine pulling a gun on my mother! I had just had my hair done one time when I was working, and my mother had something to say about the fact I’d spent money on myself. She hit my hair. I went to my room, and she followed me in there and hit it again. I felt my fist draw up, realized I wanted to “cold-****” her, and told her I would be moving out the next day. And, I did.
Report Post »MinorityRightsAdvocate
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 1:51amEntitlement mentality to the extreme! A more personal example of what happened with 500,000 similar spoiled brats in the UK over the weekend.
They all feel they deserve everything they want, but they do not understand it must be earned.
Report Post »They don’t understand how to earn anything, because most have never earned anything, it was always provided by nanny government, if not enabling parents.
cookcountypatriot
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 1:48amwell when you dont teach the lil urchins the word NO when they are wee lil ones , you wake up one day and find a monster,,,spare the rod spoil the child…. but the state says is abuse to whip thier lil asses
Report Post »Old Paint
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 1:36amThis girl needs to date one of those nice Army boys who‘ve been cutting off Afghans’ fingers and heads for souvenirs. I think they’d make a lovely couple.
Report Post »MidwestMomof3
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 1:34amOh, Dear God……..She’d be lucky to come away without a wound if she pulled a gun on me….daughter or not!
I simply can NOT understand what is happening right now with some of these kids!!
My 12 year-old knows better!
Don’t people discipline their children anymore??
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 2:13amYes .. my child too .. but he knew who was in charge from day one ..
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 3:35amSilent…..
Report Post »She’s going to an Ivy League school….the girl had a gun, the mom didn’t press charges…Ivy League, Liberal, Progressive,Obama,Kennedy’s, etc,etc. Get it?
mrlogan3
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 11:47amI’ll tell you exactly what happened. This is an immigrant I’m guessing (legal, illegal, whatever) and her daughter is first generation in the “land of opportunity.” This means that she has to get the highest marks and go to the best college, so her mom has been riding her hard throughout school. I bet the relationship is extremely tense between the two, the daughter wanting a somewhat average teen life and her mother pushing the academics extremely hard. The gun is an inappropriate action but I bet her mother had her quite stressed.
Report Post »NuffSaid
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 1:33amhttp://www.impeachobamacampaign.com/articlesofimpeachment/
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 2:30amI signed it.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 1:28amA peak into the soul of the entitled generation. What have we created?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 2:23ampeek?
Report Post »FrankSpeak
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 8:18amIn Florida the victim does not have to press charges. If there is evidence of domestic violence, the alleged perp is going to jail.
Report Post »fdonnino
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 1:23amSomebody freakin shoot me. I must be dreaming.
Report Post »Herman_Cain
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 1:18amHow they gonna afford the IVY League if she doesn’t have a car.
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 2:12amthat would be on the Obama & friends affirmative action quota filling freeloader plan..see my comment below for explanation ;)
Report Post »bikermama
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 2:54amwell, she is an honor roll student, who was planning on attending school with scholarships. Now she can kiss that goodbye. The mother should have beat the snot out of her before calling the cops. What the hell is wrong with these children. How can you raise a straight A student who uses violence to get what they want. It would be easier to understand if she was a dumb, lazy brat. But most kids who can get into ivy leagues on academic scholarships have to have worked hard and been very responsible. Makes no sense. Feel sorry for the mom, sounds like maybe she was trying. It takes a good deal to get kids to stay on top of their studies,she obviously wasn’t ignoring the child. Maybe she had a mental breakdown or was high. Who knows now a days.
Report Post »mrlogan3
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 11:41am@Chicago Ray
Or she earned scholarships
Report Post »ottodiedacktick
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 8:20pm@Herman_Cain:
Ivy League scholarships are granted on the basis of need and not academics or sports.
Report Post »ottodiedacktick
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 8:23pm@Herman_Cain:
Also, freshmen are not allowed to own cars or live off-campus. So I don’t know where she was planning to hide the car.
Report Post »dalejrfanforevr
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 1:16amwow
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 1:28amYes .. it was on my local news down here … makes one thankful for “normal” children. For someone who is supposed to be “smart” she certainly is “dumb”. If you are going to do all that at least get a “new” car. (sarcasm)
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 1:43amObama wants to do the same to the tax payer
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 1:46am@ CATB
There‘s a lot of crazy people in FL that’s why I stayed in CA
:) :) :)
Report Post »butler180
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 1:47amInstead of being a parent and you give a child everything they demand as soon as they can walk and talk, than what do you expect them to do the first time you say no?
Report Post »Pistol whip you at the very least is the answer. The mother is lucky the daughter did not kill her for the insurance money.
cheezwhiz
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 1:54amAuthorities said they decided to arrest the teenager after learning that the gun had been stolen last year. The teen was not charged in that crime.
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Why ? She was in possesssion of stolen gun while commiting a crime , why wasn’t she charged ?
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 1:55amOnce again we get to see out of control kids across the media; I feel sad for the mother, to have this happen to her, and for having such a little monster within her family who decided force can be used to make good things happen personally. I hope justice is metted out in this one fairly to what the mom went through.
Somehow though, I feel she (the daughter) will get away with a light sentence at worse, or get off completely more likely.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 2:10amAnd she lived? I mean, her daddy didn’t kill her? My daddy would have! And, after I was dead, I would have been “grounded” for a week.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 2:12am@ROBERT ..
You can keep California .. and my deadbeat brother who lives there … I would rather live in Florida .. state income taxes 0% …
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 2:12am@Robert-CA ~
Report Post »My 6th cousin and her family are leaving California as soon as her daughter finds a job in Arizona.
Showtime
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 2:13amWonder who’s paying for her college education…..
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 2:16am@ CATB & SHOWTIME
I know a lot people that already moved to AZ & TX .
Report Post »I was just joking with CATB .
Showtime
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 2:19am@cheezwhiz
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 1:54am
Authorities said they decided to arrest the teenager after learning that the gun had been stolen last year. The teen was not charged in that crime.
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Why ? She was in possesssion of stolen gun while commiting a crime , why wasn’t she charged ?
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She’ll have to give up who stole the gun and how she obtained it, to keep from being charged in connection to possession of stolen property. There’s also a charge of committing a crime with a deadly weapon. They have plenty of leverage on her.
CatB, stay tuned to your local news to find how if they make another arrest!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 2:22am@Robert-CA ~
I THOUGHT you had better sense than to live in California, but you had me going there for a minute!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 2:24am@Robert
I got that ….. I moved here from Michigan … I know a lot about the downfall of a state .. I wouldn’t move from one to another! My not to bright brother … did. ;-)
Report Post »Wartface
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 2:54amShe is lucky she isn’t White… Maybe she will get lucky and get Eric Holder to handle the case.
It would never even go to court!
The Steven Lerner case will never go to trial… That’s the SEIU guy that want to cause another banking crisis.
He is guilty as hell but black. That means he will get a beer conference with the President of the United States.
It’s hell to be a middle age White male in this Country these days!!!
Report Post »Mee the People
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 3:14amivy league gangsta gurl
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 4:19am@ walkwithme……………you would know if you were PAYING ATTENTION
it is the progressive mindset…………the government involvment and parents in the LACK OF DISCIPLINE for little jonny and suzie you cant spank em , just give them a time out, or like most progressive parents …………just give them anything they want
the gimme gimme generation. the government telling kids its ok if you dont want to listen to your parents
and your favorite i bet……………….. FREAKIN LIBERALS with no morals ie YOU !!!!!!!! and people like you not bright enough to know better ( ive seen your website, so yes, you too are the cause of this )
now run along to mommy
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 4:56amAnother sad case of the liberal mindset. Treat your kids like their your best friend and watch them turn on you like rabid animals. Children must have boundaries and discipline, or they grow up thinking the world owes them (like liberals).
Liberals raise their kids by giving them everything they want. Conservatives raise their kids by giving them everything they need. The difference between “want” and “need” is huge!
http://www.AmericasTeaPartyNews.com
Report Post »joseph Fawcett
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 5:49amI agree, Wow! What is the telling statement in this story is the mother’s statement about not wanting to press charges because the girl was accepted to Ivy League colleges. That is unthinkable to me! It appears to me the parents are more at fault for all of this than the child. Parents if you don’t say no to your kids and stick to it when they are young, what the heck are you expecting from the kids when they have grown up. This might be a extreem example but none the less it is amazing to realize how out of control the parents brought up this kid. The parents didn’t get what they deserve, they should be sitting nest to theor daughter in jail, charged with raising a dangerous child. Parents need to be held account able for their children’s actions. I know some children are strong willed and are very diffecult to control. But the Bible does state spare the rod and spoil the child.
I host a young mens bible study for young highschool men. I have told them right out that my generation have contributed to their harder struggle against the world’s message of please self first and all else will come to you. That is such a false message, and my generation brought about the notion of “free” love, the sexual revolution, and many more distructive beliefs. Jesus said seek first the Kingdom of God and then all else will be added unto us.
http://www.josephfawcettart.com western art. Thank you so much to those that have sent me wonderful emails about my website. BGB!
Report Post »oldsoldier10
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 5:57amI agree its like the discovery health channel, when you think you aches and pains are bad, watch 30 minutes of discovery health channel and the guy with bark for skin, or the lady with no legs. Then you really appreciate your aches and pains. Same for your kids, when you think they constantly are a pain at least they are not pistol whipping you! WOW this girl got away with that crap BECAUSE the parent refused to be a parent, someone must be the parent!
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:33amWell she did get accepted to an Ivy League school and that obviously DEMANDS having a car to fit right in with the other students. Work that hard and throw it all away for an image, like she would be the only one there without a car. The rule that freshmen couldn’t have cars used to be a pain, but at least you became grounded your first year.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:58amPsychosis,
Perfect answer to Walkwithme, but do not be too hard on her. She is in the denial stage right now but is waking up. No side is perfect and all have screwed this country to hell and back. But this entitlement mentality is the mortal blow to us, and big government is the root of the problem. The nanny state. I like what Beck calls these kids; a generation of would-be killers. THAT is exactly it! They will do ANYTHING to advance themselves, never mind anyone or anything else…Even your own parents.
Listen, I have/had a couple too…Despite our traditional values and strict rules my older two stepsons had the influences of divorced parents, public schools, and the “me, me, me” society and they too had the entitlement mentality. Thank God once they got out on their own they learned for themselves to work for what they have and they are both now fine, Christian gentlemen but the going was rough for a decade or so in there…
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:02amShe will make a great union activist one day.
“We use the power of persuasion first. If it doesn’t work, we try the persuasion of power.”
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 10:25amWonder if she got the gun from Obammy’s Mexican-American Gun Delivery Program .? Probably going to Yale. Most of Yale is right near or encroaching the Hood. She’d be right at home.
Report Post »gramma b
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 11:21amThe headline should read, “Affirmative Action Ivy League Teen Pistol-Whipped Mom . . . .”
Report Post »mrlogan3
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 11:43am@bbdarthchris077
Just to address you quickly, Facebook itself does not create these pages, they’re created by users.
Report Post »mrlogan3
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 11:49am@thepatriotdave
I guarantee these two weren’t very friendly and I highly doubt the mother gave the girl whatever she wanted. I would bet anything the mom was an academic slavedriver.
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 2:06pmYet another Democrat having a temper tantrum.
Report Post »jds7171
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 2:41pm@CATB
Report Post »Just because she is going to an ivy league college doesn’t mean she is smart. SHe must have got in because of her ethnicity.
ottodiedacktick
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 8:11pmWhy can’t Blacks and Hispanics be more motivated to succeed like the Asians?, said the White man.
Report Post »shotzie
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:59amwith kids behaving like this – yes – wow. My husband is a high school teacher for the last 23 years. He used to LOVE his job, the last 4 years have changed that. The disrespect, the outbursts, the parents who won’t discipline – like this girls mother, are making teaching impossible. I thank God every day for children who are polite and law abiding. I just can’t imagine having my child do that to me. Hopefully a few months in a juvenile detention center will straighten her up. Does not sound like she has had the word “no” told her very many times. guess the ivy league will have to wait.
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