Brittany McGregor
10/29/09 8:54PM
Imagined being taking to a dark abandoned house, having your head shaved, being beat with fists and rifle butts and being threatened at gunpoint, all while being recording. This was the case with five boys in Mexico City, who are accused of robbing a house. The video was placed on YouTube but was abruptly removed. The five boys, who are all high school students, were forced to perform sex acts and kiss each other while on camera, so that they would face humiliation. The boys were held for an entire night and the next day they were dropped off in the middle street, then transported to the hospital for severe injuries including broken ribs. Many were outraged by the video, so the police arrested four building workers for the torture of the boys. One of the boys said that they were first arrested by the police then turned over to the torturers.
This is a sad and disturbing story. Did the five boys really deserve the humiliation and torture they faced just for breaking into someone’s house? They did not have the right to break into that man house but they did not deserve the right to receive that type of torture. Is your personal property worth the torture of someone else? I do not believe so. What the boys did was wrong but they did not deserve the amount of torture they received.
http://www.minnpost.com/globalpost/2009/10/29/12960/mexicans_turn_to_the_lynch_mob_as_crime_spirals_out_of_control
2 comments:
i think what is most upsettig to me (other than the fact that these boys were tortured of course) is that the video ended up on YouTube. Are you serious? YouTube can be a useful tool, I myself have used it before, but to put up video of people behing tortured and humiliated is completely wrong.
Jessie Lucas
October 30th 2009
5:42 PM
wow this story is seriously disturbing. Nobody deserves something like this, especially for a crime as small as robbery. I'm not saying it's a good thing, but it most certainly doesn't deserve punishment nearly as grotesques as this. The fact that they put it on youtube is also really upsetting. Some people are so sick, I mean who on earth would want to watch such a disgusting video? What the hell is wrong with people today?
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