Menace.

  • Menace.

This is some pretty disturbing Clockwork Orange stuff coming up from Cincinnati. According to reports making the rounds in both statewide and national news outlets, a group of 13 and 14 year-old boys is currently waiting for a day in court; the crime they’re accused of committing is the vicious beating of a 45-year-old man. The soul depleting-angle on this whole deal is the reason behind the assault — the kids were allegedly just trying to fill up some empty time in their day planner.

Six boys were indicted by a Hamilton County grand jury last week, each picking up a felonious assault and aggravated rioting charge. Prosecutors are trying to stick the kids with a “serious youthful offender” tag, which means they’d be subject to actual prison time.

The charges stem from the beating of Pat Mahaney in early August. According to Newsnet5, the man was returning to his home in the Cincinnati ‘burb of North College Hill with a sixer of beer when the adolescent fury descended.

This article appears in Aug 29 – Sep 4, 2012.

8 replies on “Six Ohio Teens Beat Man Due to Boredom”

  1. One of the most dangerous segments of society is people 12-18 years of age. Insanity of a peer group can take over adolesence and make for some play that is made of violence, rage, hatred and death. A crime like this is most definetly a hate crime; as any time a group decides to attack anyone out of bordom or a need for excitement. When sex and/or violence is present in a group attack hate is always there. Taking hate away from violence may be possible while defending, but if the group takes the initiative to physically attack, chances are pretty good that hate is the driver of the mutual goal…self hatred is always present and projected.

  2. We can debate the social dynamics – but what it boils down to is bad early toilet training.

    These mini-monsters (white and black) suffer the same predicament: Bad parenting.

  3. this is a hate crime…if it were 6 white kids and they beat up a black man…then it would be front page news and al sharpton would be there calling for justice.

  5. Though I agree that Al Sharpton, if the skin colors were reversed, would immediately jump all over this as a hate crime, I don’t think we can say for sure it is a hate crime at this point. I can see piece of garbage kids doing this to just about anyone, which is horrible and sad to say. These kids need a stiff lesson in manners and the law, hopefully one which sticks with them and pulls them off this path to self-destruction they’re currently on.

  6. This story demonstrates why I don’t have high regard for the black community, or black leaders. Had the races been reversed, white people in the neighborhood, and white leaders, would be out there calling for justice and sharing the black communities rightful outrage. But blacks, it seems, are only for themselves. The only justice they become passionate about is for their own. And as long as that metric is not disturbed, they’re fine. Very disappointing.

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