The following comments are strictly those of Julie, not Bob (although I tend to think he would agree with me) even though this post is going to show up on his Facebook page.
Back in February, a horrific crime was committed when six people in Greensburg, PA (just 30 miles outside of Pittsburgh) beat, tortured and killed a mentally disabled woman named Jennifer Daugherty who thought these six were her friends. After they were done with the beating and torturing, they stuffed her body in a garbage can and put it under a truck in a middle school parking lot. Luckily there was no school that day so no kids were around. There have been recent article on the development of the case, but the one that came out today in the Post Gazette made me even more furious.
In today's article, one of the defendants was being interviewed and was asked whether he was pressured by another one of the defendants to stab and beat Ms. Daugherty. Below is part of the exchange that took place during the interview. After reading let me know if you find the particular part that really p*ssed me off.
"In the interview, Mr. Knight told detectives Mr. Smyrnes had pressured the other defendants into stabbing and beating Ms. Daugherty, 30, and that if he "had a remote and was able to rewind it back" he'd tell Mr. Syrnes to "do his own dirty work."
Did you catch it? No? Go back and read it again. I'll wait.
His response was not that he'd call the police to report the abuse like any normal, decent human being, but that he'd tell the other guy to "do his own dirty work". Oh wait, I am not going to beat, stab that poor woman but you go right ahead and beat her and stab her and do all the other other horrible things they did.
How can people be so cruel to a woman that just wanted to make some new friends? Were they beaten and abused when they were younger so they had a need to pick on someone weaker than themselves? What about the people that lived near the apartment building where this took place? They had called police on other occasions, but no one summoned police on that particular Thursday when they heard fighting and screaming coming from the building.
I'd like to think that I would stick up for someone that was being mistreated, but I hope that due to all of us starting to treat everyone a little better, I never get the opportunity to find out.
Peace, love and happiness.