Young teens killed a man at the beach

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A man's been killed by three teenagers during an "altercation" on the Isle of Sheppey. A 16yo girl and 14 and 15yo boys. What a waste of four lives. I cannot imagine anything driving my young teens to kill someone except for a sheer, stupid accident.

This is truly awful.

I read about this earlier. Teenagers seem to be completely feral now. When I was growing up it was shocking if a child murdered someone and now it seems to be an everyday occurance.

Parents are too scared to parent..
Imo.

In the report I read "One eyewitness, who was on holiday in the area, told the BBC that there were about 100 bystanders as police arrived at the scene on Sunday night." I do wonder where they all were during the "altercation and a man being assaulted". Surely bystanders should have rushed to help stop the murder.

When that elderly gentleman was murdered by those bullies in the park in Leicestershire, I shared it on here and everyone came at me for wanting to discuss something before it had gone through the courts. But yeah, it’s really shocking and disgusting. I don’t know what’s happening, but I seem to read a lot of things about teenagers murdering other teenagers or adults.

The three teenagers have now been charged with murder and a 12yo girl is in custody as well. What on earth.

I honestly believe that if someone under the age of 18 commits a crime both parents should be charged with it too. If your child has reached their teens and you can't control them then that is entirely on you. I also think - and I know a lot of teachers who would concur with this - that some children need to be taken away from their parents at birth. If you are scared of your own child then that is because you were a terrible parent when your child was developing. The argument that some parents are working two jobs, etc. and, therefore, can't be around to parent properly is also rubbish. If your child has reached their teens and can't be trusted not to commit crimes unless you are physically present then you have failed.

A lot will be said about poverty and deprivation and so on but there are plenty of poor people who bring their children up well. The parents of feral yobs are always lazy and totally without any kind of moral compass.

I totally agree with @EsmaCannonball

@EsmaCannonball I have a friend who has three children, all older teens/young adults. Two of them are very well-functioning individuals who have never been in any trouble, but the youngest, who has been raised the exact same way, has anger management issues and is completely defiant towards my friend. She is an excellent parent and she has spent tonnes of time and money trying to get her youngest the help she needs but to no avail. The youngest is constantly getting into trouble for being violent, doing drugs, selling drugs etc. I would absolutely hate it if my friend was punished for something that she cannot control. She has been punished enough in my opinion. No amount of discipline has helped and at a certain age you can't just lock them up at home and shut them away from society. She is peterified of what the future looks like for her child.

I have a friend whose son is seven. She has to lock her bedroom door at night because she's afraid he will kill her in her sleep if she's said 'no' to him about something during the day. He smashes up her house, kicks, bites and punches her - but apparently is a perfect little angel at school, so school are not interested in investigating what looks from the outside to be PDA. At seven she can still, just about, restrain him physically. By the time he is twelve she might well be dead. She won't come out and tell everyone what she is going through because she's afraid he will be taken away from her.