Teen Bully Tells Judge Why He Went After Boy With Asperger's Syndrome

[AGXStarseed]

(Not written by me)


A 14-year-old Liberty, Missouri, teen admitted to brutally beating a 12-year-old with autism.

Destiny Kitchen said her son, Blake, is lucky to be alive after an older boy brutally beat him in the cafeteria at school.

According to Kitchen, she and her husband warned the school of the bully a month before the attack — sending the principal a letter that detailed the ongoing bullying that was occurring. It was Kitchen’s older son, Blake’s brother, who’d been the attacker’s victim prior to the beating.

When Blake arrived to the cafeteria to eat in his normal seat, another boy moved his belongings from the spot. When he asked the boy to move from his seat, the bully stepped in and began beating him until he blacked out. He continued to attack him after becoming unconscious.

“It makes me sad and angry to see him have that moment of terror,” Kitchen said.

“Is your son going to make it? To listen to him cry and say, 'Mommy I'm going to die. Please don't let me die I'm not ready.' It could have been avoided."

Blake, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, spent four days in the hospital recovering from a jawline fracture, fractured skull and ear damage. He also began leaking spinal fluid as a result of the attack.

The bully ultimately admitted to a judge that he beat the 12-year-old, adding that he regretted his actions.

“My client is very sorry about what happened and so is his family. We feel for the victim in this case. I do also want to say my client was also the victim of some bullying at the school. He made some reports for that,” the boy’s attorney, Gregory Culotta, said, explaining that the boy had also been bullied by several students in the school.

“Understand that my client was a victim too as far as the bullying. He wishes he could take it back, but he can't. He is going to deal with the consequences and do the best he can when he goes to the division of youth services."

Sources: KCTV, Fox 4 / Photo credit: Fox 4, KCTV


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Teen Bully Tells Judge Why He Went After Boy With Asperger's Syndrome

 

[Mr Allen]

Smh, even in North America they can't do anything to kids?! Even when some idiot beats the living brown stuff out of an Autistic child?!

Jesus wept!

They should lock up the Bully and throw away the key IMO.

 

[Southern Discomfort]

Well as long as the bully is sorry and regrets it that's the important thing. Oh, and he too was bullied?! Well I suppose all is forgiven, how can you be angry after hearing that?

 

[Judge]

If that happened here there's a possibility that the juvenile would be tried as a an adult. Where the system can hand down some very harsh sentences.

Crimes of violence against children and the elderly are not tolerated here. Period.

 

[biblophile]

That story takes me back to my school days. I received a jaw fracture from a beating I received at my school bus stop when I was in ninth grade. The bully received no legal punishment, he was suspended from school for three days. He was even worse when he came back. After that I had the reputation of being a "nark", and that is the worst title one can have in school. I never had a moments peace after that, bullies seemed to come out of the wood work. Eventually I dropped out and got my High school equivalency instead. I am glad I will never have to attend high school again.

 

[toothless]

disgusting example of humanity.
this is why i hate humans,they ambush anyone who is different for any damn reason and launch bullying sprees on them. im so fed up of bullies they make me feel sick.
like many, ive been severely bullied my whole life [mainly for my disabilities and how they manifest but also because i have ginger hair] and i have never once thought of getting my own back by bullying someone else, how does that hurt the scumbags who hurt me?

 

[biblophile]

disgusting example of humanity.
this is why i hate humans,they ambush anyone who is different for any damn reason and launch bullying sprees on them. im so fed up of bullies they make me feel sick.
like many, ive been severely bullied my whole life [mainly for my disabilities and how they manifest but also because i have ginger hair] and i have never once thought of getting my own back by bullying someone else, how does that hurt the scumbags who hurt me?

You are correct, retaliation dose nothing to the bullies, and any satisfaction one feels after an act of revenge is fleeting at best. Though the bullies did my no end of both physical and psychological harm in the end their behavior only hurts themselves. I for one would rather keep the moral upper hand. Their crimes carry their own punishment.

 

[xDominiel]

their behavior only hurts themselves.

I would hope so. But I also think bullying is not taken nearly as seriously as it should be. Including in adult environments.

 

[midlife aspie]

Unfortunately, in my own experience, I found fighting back to be the only way to stop such people.

 

[Adder1234]

There was a kid at my school about two years ago who constantly bullied me. I've said it before, but I'm a pretty big guy, and this kid was a 5 foot tall stick insect, but he kept abusing me; calling me a loser and other worse names, pushing me over and knocking my work of desks. I tried to control my temper and told the teachers, hell, the teachers often saw him doing it. But, they couldn't legally do anything more than giving him a days suspension.
So after nine months I was very irritable and had lashed out at several others, always apologising afterwards. Then one day we were watching the movie Galipoli (a film about Australian soldiers getting slaughtered during the first world war) and this idiot started starting saying how the soldiers must all be stupid because they're all dying so easily and that he would have done a much better job of fighting.
So I finally lost my temper and threw my desk at his face. It broke his cheek bone, fractured his skull, knocked out a tooth and gave him four stitches around his eye, as well as knocking him unconscious. I should have been expelled for it, but my teachers all agreed that the kid had it coming, and several even thanked me for dealing with him when they couldn't. So the principal gave me a four week suspension instead. Even better, when I came back the kid disappeared from the school and no one ever heard from him again.
All in all, I don't regret doing what I did in the slightest. So, yes, in some cases brute force is the best solution.

 

[biblophile]

Sometimes fighting is the only solution. There have been a couple of times where I fought back against a bully. It ended up with me getting in trouble instead of the bully. In my school the bullies where the good looking popular kids, so when I fought back the teachers took their side not mine. In their mind such good looking well dressed kids could not possibly have started trouble, it had to be the fat, ugly weirdo who instigated the fight. It came down to a credibility issue, good looking kids where more believable.
My own Mother would often take their side. A few years ago I was visiting my Mother and she wanted me to go to my sisters football game with her to watch her cheer. Against my better judgment I went. I came to the attention of the local teens who proceeded to make the rest of my stay a misery. First they sent a letter home with my sister saying that a local girl saw me at the game and wanted to meet me at next weeks game. I felt so excited, I never had a girl friend before that time, so next game time I arrived with bells on only to be mocked and humiliated by the foot ball players and their girlfriends. I confronted them on the spot I was so angry, and upset I started to cry. One of the teachers threw me out of the game. What followed was two weeks of daily harassment. They would make prank calls to the house, drive by and yell profanity at me when I went out for a walk. I told my Mother about it and all she said was I must have done something to instigate the abuse. That was the last straw I left my Mothers and never went back to that town until I attended her funeral last year.