What I found most disturbing about this story, wasn't just the age of the attackers, but the way "justice" was carried out. The boys were suspended from school and only one is serving time in a detention facility. If this crime had been committed against a white person I think the sentencing would have been much more severe. After all, the boys were charged with attempted murder! I think its horrendous, that even as victims, immigrants are treated as second class citizens.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
6 Mass. boys accused of beating sleeping immigrant
Damian Merida, a Guatemalan immigrant who has lived in this country for fifteen years was the victim of a brutal attack. It was carried out by six boys ages 11-14, who beat Merida with bricks, bottles and rocks leaving him with brain damage. The police say he was targeted because of his ethnicity and that its possible this isn't the first of such attacks perpetrated by the same boys.
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It's always disturbing with youth act out in violent ways. I think it's interesting that the crime was not listed as a hate crime-the implication is that ethnicity was the motivation for the attack.
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