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WTF is wrong with people? Student's throat cut at Southern Nash High

NFS4

NFS4

No Lifer
Dafuq is wrong with people?

A 16-year-old girl at Southern Nash High School was injured Tuesday morning when, authorities say, another girl cut her throat with a scalpel.

Capt. Pat Joyner, with the Nash County Sheriff's Office, said the 15-year-old student suspect approached the girl from behind during a class change and attacked her.

A school resource officer took the 15-year-old suspect into custody, and she was later charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury.

Her name was not released.

The victim, Jasmine Barnes, was taken to Wilson Memorial Hospital in Wilson and later transferred to Pitt Memorial Hospital in Greenville to be treated for her injuries, including her thyroid which was cut during the attack.

"Hopefully, when we get to Greenville, I pray, that the doctors intervene and do what they're supposed to and take care of my baby," Barnes' mother, Stephanie Barnes said.

Stephanie Barnes said she did not know what might have prompted the attack. She called it "senseless and heartless."

"Kids should know how to act, regardless," she said. Get someone. Read. Pray, and stop doing all this violence to one another. It's just crazy."

Principal Connie Bobbitt said the suspect "had an issue" with the victim, but police said it's unclear if they had any previous altercations.

The school was on lockdown briefly after the stabbing, and teachers were instructed to keep children in the classrooms, Bobbitt said. The school is back on schedule.

"I let the parents know as soon as I could what was going on and that the two students were taken care of," she said. "Our staff responded in a Southern Nash way, and they responded very well."

It was the second time in less than a week that sheriff's deputies were called out to Southern Nash High.

Last Thursday, deputies received a report that two people were fighting with a broken bottle and a gun.

The school was locked down for 10 minutes, and deputies said it turned out that a 17-year-old was trying to harm himself with a piece of glass.

Bobbitt said the two incidents aren't related.
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http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/10880038/
 
I blame our 'hands off' society and the lack of parental control. Most teens are wild animals (I was) and the only thing keeping the lid on was society's disapproval. Disapproval that was regularly acted upon versus just being whined about. I hated it at the time but, none of my class ever shot up a school, tried to kill anyone or, killed themselves.
 
Wonder how many warning sign there were.

I remember back in the day some crazy girl fights where enough hair was lost to call in locks for tots. Throat cut is another level of crazy.
 
I'm curious as to what the victim did. I doubt it was justified, but even crazy people don't specifically cut a throat for no reason whatsoever.
 
MagnusTheBrewer said:
I blame our 'hands off' society and the lack of parental control.
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Discipline is a double edged sword.

If you discipline your child the wrong way, child protection services is called, some type of criminal charges are filed against the parents, child taken away and put into foster care, parents have a hire an attorney, go before a judge, have a hearing, take some kind of parenting class or anger management class,,,,.

If you do not discipline your child, then people complain your not disciplining them enough.

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Back in October my 15 year old daughter spit in my face. I felt like giving her a black eye, but if I did, my ex-wife would have filed assault charges on me. I was going to be wrong regardless of what I did.

How is a parent supposed to act like a parent when we are put into lose-lose situations?

As for the 16 year old girl in the OP, lets look at the home and the environment she was raised in before we are too harsh.
 
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damn poor girl i have a 15 year old daughter and i think this would cause me to go berserk.

the girls thyroid was cut, the attacker was out to kill, good thing she failed.
 
I guess it's a good thing slitting someones throat isn't as easy as they make it look in the movies. 😱
 
I was just last night saying to my wife how it's becoming harder and harder to remember what's good about people/society and referenced how this is a reminder and gives me hope that maybe we're not all doomed http://www.nature.com/news/national-ignition-facility-fires-record-laser-shot-1.10269 What I mean is it's refreshing to see advances that could change the world as we know it for the better and that for all the terrible things we see in the news, there's a lot of good people doing good things in the world as well.
 
Texashiker said:
Back in October my 15 year old daughter spit in my face. I felt like giving her a black eye, but if I did, my ex-wife would have filed assault charges on me. I was going to be wrong regardless of what I did.

How is a parent supposed to act like a parent when we are put into lose-lose situations?
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If you think giving your child a black eye is acting like a parent, you should be put in jail. At that age, there are plenty of non-physical options for discipline. Confiscate phone, grounding, etc.

PS: For the record, I'm not against physical discipline (spanking, etc.) when it is used appropriately.
 
Pheran said:
If you think giving your child a black eye is acting like a parent, you should be put in jail. At that age, there are plenty of non-physical options for discipline. Confiscate phone, grounding, etc.

PS: For the record, I'm not against physical discipline (spanking, etc.) when it is used appropriately.
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He said he FELT like it. Not that he would have actually done it. If my wife kicked me in the nuts for no good reason, I probably would FEEL like knocking her lights out, but I never would.
 
NFS4 said:
He said he FELT like it. Not that he would have actually done it. If my wife kicked me in the nuts for no good reason, I probably would FEEL like knocking her lights out, but I never would.
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I felt like giving her a black eye, but if I did, my ex-wife would have filed assault charges on me. I was going to be wrong regardless of what I did.
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He explicitly states that he didn't do it not because it was wrong but because his ex-wife would file assault charges. I agree with Pheran that that sounds a little screwy, even if that's not how he meant it to be taken.

When I was 15 I backtalked to my dad about something that pissed him off a ton and he grabbed my shoulders and shook me. Didn't hurt me in the least but scared me more than I'd ever been scared before, simply because he was reacting more out of rage than anything else and because I was physically completely unable to do anything to protect myself. That was far worse than any spanking I ever got as a kid.

(Note: my dad was NOT abusive, and he apologized to me later and said he never should have done anything like that out of anger. Punishment, especially physical punishment, should be done with a clear head and rational mind.)

To have a parent even suggest that giving their kid a black eye would be an appropriate reaction is kind of terrifying. If it's hyperbole, eh ok, we all talk smack sometimes, but it kinda didn't sound like that in his post.
 
Texashiker said:
Discipline is a double edged sword.

If you discipline your child the wrong way, child protection services is called, some type of criminal charges are filed against the parents, child taken away and put into foster care, parents have a hire an attorney, go before a judge, have a hearing, take some kind of parenting class or anger management class,,,,.

If you do not discipline your child, then people complain your not disciplining them enough.

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Back in October my 15 year old daughter spit in my face. I felt like giving her a black eye, but if I did, my ex-wife would have filed assault charges on me. I was going to be wrong regardless of what I did.

How is a parent supposed to act like a parent when we are put into lose-lose situations?

As for the 16 year old girl in the OP, lets look at the home and the environment she was raised in before we are too harsh.
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wow. you're a terrible person, and a terrible father.
 
How is that being a terrible parent? He WANTED to but he DIDN'T. Why? Because of fear of the outcome of his actions. Something kids these days are missing. It's that "omg you didn't" attitude that has us where we are now. Grow some balls. Everyone has immoral thoughts of some sort. You have to fear something to not do them. Very few just don't because "it's not right".

What would your parents have done if you'd spit in their face? I doubt they'd have patted you on the back and said "bad dog".

Kids need a wake up call. They DO NOT have it bad, but they want to act like they do.
 
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We as a society are not teaching kids how to cope with adversity in healthy ways. And if they don't learn how in childhood, they're not going to learn it in adulthood. Instead, they'll be shooting up the workplace or stalking people across the internet.
 
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