i am sometimes shocked into silence by some of the things i read on news snippets on the internet. sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's depressing, astonishing or... whatever you want to call it.
take this for example, some excerpts from news on the cnn site, headlined 'evil' teen jailed for savage party beating. i read it because after seeing the title, i thought to myself... come on... they are probably exaggerating again... how bad can it be?
HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- A teenager described as a white supremacist was sentenced Friday to life in prison for savagely beating and sodomizing a Hispanic boy at a drug-fueled party.David Henry Tuck, 18, was convicted Thursday of aggravated sexual assault in the near-fatal attack. Witnesses testified that he hurled racial insults and shouted "white power" while sodomizing the 17-year-old victim with the plastic pole of a patio umbrella.
Doctors did not initially expect the boy to live. He was hospitalized for more than three months and underwent 20 to 30 operations. He testified Wednesday that he remembered nothing of the assault.
Linda Cabbell, a special education teacher who taught Tuck in elementary school, said he was violent when he was as young as 9 or 10, recalling how he punched her in the eye and kicked her in the groin. Tuck was later expelled.
like.... helloooooo?
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