Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 10/28/09
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@Megan,
I wonder if any of the other parents of the students at the dance that night will also?
btw,
great that you enjoy multitasking; glad to see you on the blog each night! 🙂
yeah, David Gergen & Michael Ware!
That young student just slammed the security and the admin of that school.
I guess child pornography charges are possible, but I think the main charge though would be aiding and abetting. What the student said about the security of police not checking id's at a dance is more to the point. If you don't like the idea of everyone's id being checked, someone in security or one of the teachers or principals supervising the dance should've just as a matter of routine should've checked out what was going on with kids outside. It fine w/ me that security at the school would check id's at a dance in one of the most dangerous cities in CA
I don't understand how the age of the victim affects whether or not witnesses are required by law to report a felony. But maybe I misunderstood that.
@ Vickie_Ar I agree thats what I was saying, and thats what what I would have done
I want my money back from samoa.why is the gov.just giving our money away and their are people here that is losing jobs and home. I believe the people in the gov.are just plain stupid just book sense but no common sense.and if they stop lining there wallets with kick back this gov can get on track but as long as kick back is involved it will never happen.
@ Emily
That was right on target! There is an "excuse" for everything. Yes, that is very troublesome to me. It talks about Not being Responsible.
I think Sarah Palin wants to be one of those you love or you hate. She wants the celebrity, not going to attract press or speaking engagements or book sales if she is middle of the road.
19...20 year olds caught...what are they doing at the homecoming dance?
These "boys" have watched SO many videos and violent games they do not know FACTS from FICTION. The brain becomes numb to violence when you have seen so much of it at a young age. Just my motherly opinion. That's why these violent videos and what nots are not permitted in my home. Who needs this non-sense?
@ Glen
My pleasure.
@Joe
Those people were bystanders, not hostages. They could have ran around the corner and called 911 on a cell phone and no one would have even known it.
@erica hill dont you think its time the law changes were no matter the age you should go to jail for severe crimes like killing assault or rape or drug dealing its destroying america
@Sue
That's good to hear, thanks for telling us.
I do love multitasking same time watch CNN and blogs each week!
Emily,
I think her parents are also lawsuit against school for damage.
John King asked great questions and both Jeff & Lisa have made great points...provided great information...what a sad, sick story! 😐
@ Casey: I hear you! We had 1300 at my high schoo. Times have changed. We need to re-structure these high schools to make them smaller populations so that everyone gets to know each other. I will not get on my rant about school choice destroying neighborhoods.
The problem is that these boys just do NOT care. They have rage towards women. Rape is Rage, not sex. It is a sexual act, but it is an act of violence.
RE: American Samoa...What is going on? In any well run business..(aka..the IRS!) you think there would be someone monitoring spending. This sort of laziness as a result of "distance" in this day and age is a disgrace! I am a hard working, tax paying, law abiding citizen living in a small town where folks take care of each other...I take this so personally. This is OUR money people! If I didn't have to draw a salary I would enter into politics myself just to TRY to fix the stuff( and that's a nice word) like this. My prayers go to all the people in the territory of American Samoa.
I am not surprised that people took videos and pictures.
Regardless of gender teens upload sex acts through
tubes on the internet. Quite frankly amateur porn is big
on high school an college campuses.
I mean everyone gets on the people who did nothing but if you saw a group of men who not only outnumber you but could kill you would you have done anything besides calling the police and getting help?
@ starr, formerly known as vincent
Right on! I hope they can be charged for watching!
I have to say that John King is the only man on Earth who could come close to filling Anderson's shoes...I love you both!
@ Casey Jones,
We are in a different time now...there is a 'rehab' and an excuse for everything! (wow, I'm sounding old!)
There was a case in the 80'sin Massachusetts that was the basis for the movie The Accused starring Jodie Foster. It was about a situation just like the one in CA. A girl was gang raped in a bar while many onlookers stoodby, chanted and cheered on the rapists. The onlookers were eventually charged (with what I don't remember) and convicted,
I like Jeff Toobin and Lisa Bloom's comment. I am sorry about teenager girl 15 yrs old got raped by boys and adult.... My heart goes to 15 yrs old teenager girl, I hope she will heal own her life.
The girl called her dad to come get her? Didn't he come?
Lisa Bloom is right on this one!
I agree that it is horrible that they are wasting our money in Samoa. That is plain horrible. But we shouldn't blame them for everything. Our government has helped us so much wither everything. They do so much for us, no one publicizes that, they only publicize their mistakes.
@ Erica,
The law really is very disturbing! ....the fact that they were watching and standing there, and not overhearing this from their apt. – this is so stomach-turning!
glad to hear that some of the students at the school are speaking out.
Hey, that's a good point, I hadn't thought about the child porn thing.
I hope those people will be held liable for not doing their job
When I went to high school (1500 kids) we never had "security" on campus or at school dances. We DID have chapperones, etc., so where are the parents in all this? Why do we constantly have to place blame on educators for poor parenting skills?
There is now a fund set up for the 15 year old girl raped at Richmond HIgh School Saturday night. Please let viewers know they can contribute to help this child.
It is absurd that our children are not safe at school functions. Sad, pathetic and intolerable.
Why can't onlookers be charged with aiding and abetting?
You guys need to expand this story on Samoa and look at all the U.S. Territories. I am in the U.S. Virgin Islands and everday tons of Federal funds are squandered and stolen everyday.
Amazing the law re: a 14 yr old... stunning and so, so disturbing
I am so glad she testified. That is awesome
Are parents going to sue the school?
I am 67 working still – no way to retire for a few years yet – why are you sending my tax dollars- millions and billions- to Somoa and not tracking? I am not going to get a COLA on my SS next year but you have tax dollars to send after already wasted tax dollars?
@John King....I'm glad we're having all this Palin hype now. I can't imagine she'll be able to stay-the-course all the way to 2012. In the meantime, she provides great fodder for cocktail conversation.
That man that was able to get the grants for the Island; he had NO responsibility to see how the money was spent?
Is this true for all States?
The money/grants were traced to him, and he didn't know how that money was spent?
why there is not a regulation there to follow-up?
Hi John King,
It does matter to me who the CIA pays in Afghanistan, especially when our money goes to warlords. We are supposedly there promoting democracy, and yet our money goes to people who are gangsters dealing opium and furthering the drug trade. To make matters worse, that opium then comes back to our cities and towns destroying lives of our youth. The CIA and the US government should be working at higher standards.
Maybe if the govt stopped wasting our time and money, we wouldn't complain about giving tax money to them.
Count me in the camp of Sarah Palin is not qualified and not only that I blame her for the ratcheting up of hatred against the President and muddying health care legislation through lies. I will never and I mean never vote for her. No middle ground here.
WoW! It is hard to believe that we are spending that kind of money in Samoa! WoW!
@ starr, formerly known as vincent
Lets get a bill going to make them all illegal! That ought to be interesting..
This report on American Samoa is stunning!
But, then again, maybe not. i guess we all should be used to the fantastic waste that has been going on for a Long Time.
Thank you Drew, for an eye-opening story!
@ John King,
I think that when Sarah Palin Quit as the Governor of Alaska, that was a sign that "she isn't ready" for some who might have given her a chance in a few years.
Those poor Samoans, yet another Government corruption charge again, @ us tax payers expense, sad...
This has been going on for as long as I can remember, and that is a loooooooong time. We just throw money at other countries (governments) never following through on where the money goes. This is just standard operating procedures for us!