Teens Arrested for Brutal Bullying of 13-Year-Old Kid: ‘Tossed in a Tree’ & ‘Hung From a Fence’
- Posted on February 1, 2011 at 1:40pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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The video is almost too heartbreaking to watch. It shows seven older teens attacking a 13-year-old in a case of extreme bullying. The older boys, from near Philadelphia, PA, randomly target the younger one, and proceed to drag him, throw him in a tree, and even try to hang him from a fence. The attackers seem to have aided in their own capture by taping the incident and posting it on the internet.
My Fox Philly reports:
On January 11, Nadin Khoury was walking home from school when he was randomly picked out by the teens, who Upper Darby police chief Michael Chitwood called a “wolfpack.”
After 30 minutes of physical abuse in public, a woman driving by the scene jumped out of her car, ran the bullies off and took the teen home.
Now, Khoury says he’s been told by his middle school not to return to class, and his family has had to move after they allegedly were threatened.
Despite the recent events, Khoury says he is ready to testify in the case.
“They started punching me, kicking me, one of them stomping on my chest. There’s nothing you can do. You can’t fight back or it comes down even worse. You can’t say anything besides stop or call for help, for somebody come help you. There’s nothing you can do. All you can do is sit there and wait for it to be over,” the victim recalled.
The attackers, several of whom have juvenile records, have been arrested and charged with a myriad of crimes, including kidnapping, false imprisonment, and reckless endangerment. They will not, however, be tried as adults.
(See more pictures from the Philadelphia Inquirer.)
The teen bullies aren’t the only ones to come under fire for video showing abuse. Recently, a mother who appeared on TV with Dr. Phil regarding her discipline tactics — which included forcing her son to eat hot sauce and take cold showers – was charged with child abuse after authorities saw the segment:
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Comments (123)
Gonzo
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:45pmDo stereotypes actually have some basis in fact?
Report Post »pelosi galore
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 7:25pmThe answer is no, Focker, no they do not! You must not pigeon hole a whole race based on the actions of individuals.
Report Post »joef
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:42pmWheres Al Sharpton?If those were white kids you bet your ass he would be protesting in the streets.
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:13pmjoef
If white kids hung a black kid in a tree the way these kids did, you wouldn’t be able to get Sharpton or Jackson off the TV or the riots stopped for weeks. You know you won‘t hear a peep out of either of them cause it doesn’t fit the agenda.
Report Post »Acekool
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:31pmGlad I moved from Philly some years ago. You could see it coming. This is what happens when Dems are in charge for so long and when A-A dominate the cities or towns. This marriage is a prescription for disaster.
Report Post »mitcha_ca_sux
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 3:57pmI shouldnt have to “move out of America” like you moved out of Philly. We should stand together and FIGHT them.
Report Post »integrican
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:30pmNot a problem for my kids……Close Combat training…..Drop the first two and the others will run…….chasing the others down?…optional!!!!!
Report Post »Thanks, Captain Chris.
Carbine1
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:48pmWhy not chase them down and finish it. They will come back[with help] and get your a-=-.
Report Post »integrican
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 3:55pmGood point…However, the plan is exactly that. Then I escort (out of sight) and wait for the inevitable …..
Report Post »POP, goes the weasel!!!!! ; )
spirited
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:28pmUnfortunately, because no criminal Caucasian were involved in the more than child’s play activity,
cries of racism and attempted lynching cannot be raised.
>The horrible behavior could have been prevented had some government funded program prevailed.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:24pmAll these kids (including the victim) attend a school for “troubled” children. They are all probably on medication for their ADD conditions. Looks like all their meds will be increased now.
Report Post »Nigel2
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:20pmGood lord that looks like it was taken right out of the movie “flatliners”
Report Post »fastfwd
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:18pmwhat burns me up is that there are people willing to stand by and watch some low life butt heads do this ! used to be when i was in high school kids would stand up as a group against this crap !
Report Post »ENTITLEMENTSBLOW
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:13pmDamnit George Bush, stop making people behave this way! You too Sarah!
Report Post »barackem
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:12pmKids have no parents at home, half the time kids who get in trouble don’t even have parents who work or parents who were 13 when they had their child. As we turn more and more into a Maurie Povich “who’s the Daddy”, Jerry Springer “you don’t know me” society that is supposed to be controlled by some bureaucrat from Washington DC rather than parents and neighbors in a community, who do we blame? The kids who received no upbringing from the adults in the community.
Bullying isn’t right but there is something wrong with putting all the blame on teenagers who are raising themselves on the streets and turning every teenage immaturity caught on camera into a police action and national news.
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:30pm@barackem
There’s also an addition to your comment that many seem to ignore. Even kids from two-parent homes do vile things as well. I saw it when my son was picked on for years, and lived it a long time when I was a kid. I add in the mindset of school administrators to either turn a blind eye; or find excuses; or consider the target of a gang equally ‘guilty’ if the kid defends himself. Even the victim calling names against his attackers makes him equally culpable.
There is a mindset out there among some parents that bullying isn’t a bad thing, that it ‘toughens’ a kid. Then there are so-called ‘good’ parents who have the not-my-kid mentality. I’ve seen it, when I worked for the security contingent of a private community. Never mind, in one case, I had four witnesses to an act of vandalism and the witnesses knew the boys by name. The father stood there, saying to me and a State Trooper that his son never left the house after returning from school. The Trooper–more educated, experienced, and trained than I–didn‘t buy the father’s story, either. But the Trooper could do nothing, by the law.
Your point is totally valid, to be sure. For myself, though, I often wonder which is worse–a broken home with no values or a ‘solid’ home that teaches distorted ones.
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:04pmI imagine the boy is advised not to return to school because he might be attacked again. Translation: The school is inadequate to the task of protecting him and doesn’t want a lawsuit.
Pffft!
Report Post »ofallon
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:04pmBless his heart. Hopefully the community will reach out to this child and his mother. The school must protect him when he returns to the classroom.
Report Post »Quad-rip-legic
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:04pmI wonder if they will go directly to gladiator school where they can grow up and become smarter, bigger, and far more sadistic. Or will they actually get some sort of counseling and reform? I’ll bet wherever they go it will be a for-profit facility. That is if the Democrats don’t interfere.
Report Post »Papasteve
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:03pmI hope the mother of this boy sues the school district.When they have to keep paying out because of punks like these they’ll find it cheaper to protect the kids who really want to learn.I know the punks and thier parents SHOULD be held accountable but just try sueing them!
Report Post »azmomof6
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 3:00pmHow is the school responsible? Those 7 boys are responsible! Not one of them had the integrity to suggest to the others that they not gang up on one smaller boy! The school cooperated completely, allowing the police to come in and arrest the thugs in front of the other students, which will show them that this type of behavior will not be protected by the school. Let’s stop blaming everyone else for the woes of society. Put the accountability on each individual for his own actions.
Report Post »mitcha_ca_sux
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 4:00pmSure blame the school. When the School is responsible WHY must the Taxpayer be stuck with the BILL?? How about the PARENTS are held responsible and spend the rest of their lives paying? In any case this has nothing to do with school except lack of education.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:01pmNot only are they vicious bullies, they are stupid vicious bullies for posting the whole thing on Youtube to serve as evidence against them!
Can‘t help noticing the victim’s name–Nadin Khoury–suggesting perhaps some “Islamophobia” on the attackers’ part, whether or not Khoury is Muslim.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:07pmDon’t give these punks more excuses for their behavior. They picked this kid at random (see story above) it could have been anyones’ kid.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:24pmOh goody, now CAIR can jump in too !
Report Post »Deathfromabove
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:00pmBullying has to stop that is for sure and i’m glad those kids got arrested in front of the whole school
Report Post »Jeconnally
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 1:59pmA socity with morals can’t keep them without proper justice they should be treid as adolts what they are not going to get 4 to 7 years their going to get 4 to 7 months because of our wonderful corupt corts are more interisted in the rights of the criminal than the rights of victom
Report Post »becksagoodguy
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 1:56pmPoor kid, my heart goes out to him. I heard him say on Fox that he is afraid to go back to the school because of retaliation because he’s considered a “snitch”. Too bad Pennsylvania doesn’t have school vouchers so that poor child could just go to another school.
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 1:56pmAnother story about black on black crime.
Report Post »azmomof6
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:45pmThey could actually classify it as a “hate” crime. It’s not just a simple black on black crime. It’s American blacks on an African boy crime. They said he was singled out because of his mother’s Nigerian accent. I think all crimes are “hate” crimes. There really is no such thing as a loving, friendly crime. I don’t really think we should call the same act a hate crime when it happens to one group, like gays, but not a “hate” crime when it happens to someone else. That allows for special protections for some people but not others. How is it constitutional to give more freedoms, rights, or protections to only some citizens?What happened to equal rights and protections under U.S. law? As much as I disagree with making a “hate” crime distinction, it does exist, and this crime qualifies for that distinction.
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 4:20pm@azmomof6
Report Post »Read “Animal Farm” lately? Some animals are more equal than others.
kentuckypatriot
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 1:56pmI guess I missed it, but why can’t the 13 yr old be allowed to return to his middle school?
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 1:55pmAny adult that witnesses something like this and doesn’t try to stop it is chicken spit. Adults are responsible for the monstrous behavior of these kids in one way or another. It is up to us to put a stop to it. Thank God the woman ran off the thugs.
Report Post »etetetet
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:02pmyou mispelled spit :)
Report Post »Hoosier Daddy
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:04pmOnly if stopping it means raising your voice and nothing else. Today, if an adult lays a hand on a minor, even to save another minor, he’s likely to see the inside of a jail cell himself.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:18pmI’d see the inside of a cell then.
Report Post »We have to stop letting this happen.
youguysready_letsroll
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:23pmI wanted to jump through the screen and help that kid. Where I grew up, they usually did crap like this as a gang, but one on one, there were no problems. Cowards.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:34pmThey ARE cowards, and most of them will back down when threatened by anyone bigger then them. I keep a ‘tire checker’ in my Jeep and I guarantee they would scatter like the cockroaches they are if I confronted them with it.
Report Post »youguysready_letsroll
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 4:26pmHahaha Kate, I thought my dad was the originator of the “tire checker”. It’s a shortened axe/sledgehammer handle with the words “tire checker” written on it with a leather string loop to wrap around your wrist to ensure it doesn‘t slip out of your hand while you’re “checking tires”.
Report Post »ShineTheLightBrighter
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 1:54pmHardly bullying, I would say assault is a more accurate discription.
Report Post »etetetet
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 1:58pmAgreed – and because they get the chance to have the consequences of adults, that would include taking this child bullying crime to the adult ‘assult w/ intent to harm. Looks like kidnapping is on the plate as well. God, I hate bullys.
Report Post »dataway
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 1:51pmWhy does the little boy told not to return to class. Hasn’t he gone through enough trauma? Is this really true?
Report Post »chuck_wagon
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:05pmI watched this this morning on FOX. Gretchen interviewed them and the reason they told him not to come back to school was they were afraid the friends of the 7 fine upstanding students would take revenge on him.
Report Post »booger71
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:43pmYour right, the little punks who did this said their friends would beat him up again. This is a very well spoken child. I hope he gets through this
Report Post »Hoosier Daddy
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 1:48pmSeven minor league violent felons practicing their craft and getting ready for the majors. But of course it‘s society’s fault.
Report Post »Working Poor
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 1:56pmIt is society’s fault for letting progressives do away with corporal punishment in schools. These 7 ought to be paddled in the town square until they cry like the little beaches they are. THAT would be justice.
Report Post »Deathfromabove
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:03pmI’m with Working Poor 7yrs in jail would be greata for them maybe they will become somebodys b!tch
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:12pmThough brought up by family oriented mothers and fathers, these unfortunate young men are victims of ingrained racial and social injustice, caused by continued white oppression and discrimination. The only way to escape this living hell is for them to go to prison and learn the loving ways of Islam from brothers who were victimized much the same way. They can get a well deserved, taxpayer-paid education at any state or fed institution of higher learning. Their souls will be freed, knowing that a heaven with, what, 73(?) virgins will be awaiting as a just reward. Praise Allah!
Report Post »Carbine1
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:45pmAmen to thatWORKING POOR. And anyone watching that laughs will get the same thing. A little EXTRA justice here Fella.
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 3:40pmFuture SEIU members.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:31pmMaybe its no ones fault – maybe some people are just born evil!! http://wp.me/pYLB7-yC:
Report Post »etetetet
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 1:46pm7 tried as adults – better get 4-7 years in jail at a minimum – especially those with the previous records.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 1:59pmAnyone blamed whitey yet ?
Report Post »How about Rush and Sarah ? They need to be blamed too…what say you Sharpytoon ?
oldguy49
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:05pmall inluding the victim were in a school for problem children……………..guess it didn’t help
Report Post »TERMLIMITSNOW
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:09pmMy brothers used to work me over tougher than that….pfft!
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:12pmIf you want to end violence in the “Black Community” stop making excuses for it. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and the MSM are responsible for this. Treating people with respect isn’t “acting white” it’s acting human.
Report Post »JESUS-IS-LORD
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:19pmEphesians 5:16
Report Post »… because the days are evil.
Goldmember
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:21pmGot to be GW’s fault, maybe Sarah or Beck. I got it, they are a result of their environment, which means it’s my fault. That’s it, blame me, GOLDMEMBER.
Report Post »enduro
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:29pmThis is the decay of America. Single parent family’s. This is what you get. Kids with no respect.
I am also amazed when i see blacks fighting, robbing, raping in different video’s and other blacks standing by offering no assistance. Terrible.
Blacktooth
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:40pmAnother disgraceful behavior from a bunch of good for nothing dirt bags.
Report Post »The future of those “seven” is already determined…more of the same and a life in and out of prison. Not to mention the sorrow and disgrace of their mother and father.
ruffnex
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:54pmNOTE: “They will NOT be tried as adults”
Report Post »ruffnex
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:57pmMisqoute: Correction…”They will not, however, be tried as adults”.
Report Post »Nick84
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 3:19pmI noticed most of the bullies appeared to be white. If it was all black kids, people on this site would be making the most racist comments…
Report Post »etetetet
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 3:26pmRUFFNEX – Thank you, my bad – completely mis-read. Appreciate the correction. I still hate Bully’s big time – and I hope these 7 get some jail time instead of just juvee time.
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 3:26pmKids are such @$$es these days, because their ignorant, absent, parents never disciplined or taught them any better. Blame their parents too.
Report Post »etetetet
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 3:35pmNICK84 – not sure where you get Most are white. I see white and black. However, who gives a rats a$$ if they are white, black, brown, yellow, green, purple. We all bleed red, cry wet tears and have fear as fear. This was a crime and these punks need to spend some hard time in jail, especially those with previous records (as indicated). I myself, am saddened when a few of the trolls on the Blaze take racial sides in any story – but, that’s part of the right to free speech, and one can only hope that we all learn to make a better world, for all.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 3:45pmAgreed.
Report Post »Angie
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 3:47pm@NICK84 Did you happen to watch the video, or are you so racist that you automatically assume the jackasses are white? Talk about the people on the Blaze being racist. . . . .guess YOU are the racist. I have found that the people who are the ones screaming the most about racism are the ones who are REALLY racist. It’s called TRANSFERANCE or PROJECTION dimwit. All you have to do is use your ever popular “Google”. Go ahead and see if Sharpton, Jackson and most of the progressives don’t fit the description. Look inside yourself first buddy. Shame on you.
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 4:10pmHey NICK84 If this was white on black, Rev. Al would have allready been there race baiting.
Report Post »wodiej
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 4:32pmCheezwhiz….LMAO
Report Post »ozz
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:35pmChildren should never be tried as adults. If you do not have the freedoms of an adult you should not suffer the penalties of an adult. This is a basic balance of law issue that we ignore when we do. They are either adults or not adults. It is as unfair as taxation without representation.
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