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Ten-Year-Old Girl Brutally Beaten by Bullies at a Playground in Erie, Pennsylvania

By David Lohr

Your little girl is having fun at a playground when she spies a group of kids picking on her little sister.  Doing what any big sister would do, she intervenes, only to discover she has walked into the middle of a hornet's nest that results in her being shoved to the ground and stomped so severely that her hip is shattered and she requires surgery and weeks of physical therapy.  Upsetting?  Sure, but now add to that the fact that one of the perpetrator?s attorneys is moving to have the charges dropped against his client because he wants her to be able move on in her life with a "real appreciation" for what she did.  Oh, and did I mention that the alleged perps are aged 10 and 11? The attack in question occurred on April 3, at the Pfeiffer Burleigh playground in Erie, Pennsylvania...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Report Daily on April 11, 2008 (boomark / email).