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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 10:56 AM Oct 2013

Stepmom of Teen Accused in Fla. Bullying Arrested

Source: ABC

The stepmother of a 14-year-old accused of bullying a Florida girl prior to her suicide was arrested and charged with child abuse after a video depicting the woman beating a boy was posted on Facebook, a sheriff said Friday.

During a news conference, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said the arrest of 30-year-old Vivian Vosburg on two counts of child abuse with bodily harm and four counts of child neglect is a shocking chapter in a months-long tragic story in Central Florida.

Judd said Vosburg is the stepmother of one of two girls charged with felony aggravated stalking earlier in the week. Officials say the girls, 14 and 12, bullied and harassed 12-year-old Rebecca Sedwick before she climbed a tower at an abandoned concrete plant and hurled herself to her death Sept. 9.

It was a Facebook comment over the weekend that Judd said led him to arrest the girls. He repeated the online post from the older girl almost word for word at a news conference last week.


Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/mom-teen-accused-bullying-suicide-arrested-20617883

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Stepmom of Teen Accused in Fla. Bullying Arrested (Original Post) n2doc Oct 2013 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author KansDem Oct 2013 #1
The person being attacked is screaming and crying, it sounds to me. n/t jtuck004 Oct 2013 #3
Thanks... KansDem Oct 2013 #5
I would like to question this video source MyNameGoesHere Oct 2013 #10
"If you like the video content on this channel...." IrishAyes Oct 2013 #27
I cannot help you comprehend reading MyNameGoesHere Oct 2013 #29
Didn't miss a thing, this time or the first IrishAyes Oct 2013 #30
I get your MyNameGoesHere Oct 2013 #31
The only reason I'm bothering with you this one last time IrishAyes Oct 2013 #33
Good on you MyNameGoesHere Oct 2013 #34
Tsk tsk tsk... IrishAyes Oct 2013 #35
HA MyNameGoesHere Oct 2013 #38
That video gave me the creeps! LeftofObama Oct 2013 #11
Where can I see the video? SkyDaddy7 Oct 2013 #21
It looks like the poster has self deleted the post. LeftofObama Oct 2013 #22
WARNING The video on youtube by wptv news Guaguacoa Oct 2013 #25
She's thirty? alphafemale Oct 2013 #2
She has that "I'm sad because I got caught" look. Crowman1979 Oct 2013 #6
I would describe it as DWinNJ Oct 2013 #7
I wish people would stop downgrading those RebelOne Oct 2013 #9
Good luck with that. Jamastiene Oct 2013 #14
Yes, the stereotyping of us who live in mobile homes annoys me greatly. n/t RebelOne Oct 2013 #16
It's an unfortunate stereotype.. sendero Oct 2013 #20
I apologize for repeating a stereotype. DWinNJ Oct 2013 #17
Accept your apology, but please do not associate RebelOne Oct 2013 #23
my first home was a trailer, and my family was never "trash" Skittles Oct 2013 #26
How much a part of the in crowd can a pregnant 15 year old be? JVS Oct 2013 #37
Meth is a hell of a drug. backscatter712 Oct 2013 #13
She is probably missing most of her teeth as well. alphafemale Oct 2013 #18
i have seen some before/after meth pics which are just a few months or a couple years or so apart JI7 Oct 2013 #32
It goes to show, JimboBillyBubbaBob Oct 2013 #4
Bullying seems to be a behavior learned at home. nt Fla Dem Oct 2013 #8
It definitely looks that way in this case, especially. Jamastiene Oct 2013 #15
Well, that explains a lot. /nt Ash_F Oct 2013 #12
Only 30? Wow! lib87 Oct 2013 #19
wicked stepmom, punching those boys and 2 girls laughing. what a crazy cruel life. Sunlei Oct 2013 #24
K&R + original AP link + more coverage alp227 Oct 2013 #28
The video was posted on the internet, so by law it must be true, right? In this case, I kinda 24601 Oct 2013 #36

Response to n2doc (Original post)

 

MyNameGoesHere

(7,638 posts)
10. I would like to question this video source
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 01:40 PM
Oct 2013

At the lower right it says MenOnStrike. The mission of this youtube group is thus:

Because of biased and corrupt family courts, the average man has been reduced to a slave to the marriage contract. And once his utility has been exhausted or he gets sick, his soul mate doesn't hesitate to cast him aside, taking everything and in some cases even his life.
This channel is dedicated to revealing the truth about how feminism, the mainstream liberal media and mangina politicians has destroyed the family and now wants to destroy our young boys.
I'm a disabled former sheriff's deputy. I was forced to retire from law enforcement after it was discovered that I have a severe spine disease. I have severe nerve damage and I'm partially paralyzed. If you like the video content on this channel and would like to see the channel grow, please consider assisting me by making a small donation.

I cannot even tell who is in that video, and the source is dubious, if not downright hideous. Would you consider pulling it or issue a warning at least?

Thanks

IrishAyes

(6,151 posts)
27. "If you like the video content on this channel...."
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 10:25 PM
Oct 2013

What channel? The misogynist one? Please clarify. As written it sounds as if you're soliciting donations (which at least should be a violation of TOS) for woman haters. If so, good luck with that around here. If you've simply miscommunicated, you need to correct yourself.

 

MyNameGoesHere

(7,638 posts)
29. I cannot help you comprehend reading
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 10:45 PM
Oct 2013

although I tried.
Wait let me try this again.


"
I cannot even tell who is in that video, and the source is dubious, if not downright hideous. Would you consider pulling it or issue a warning at least?

Thanks"

I don't think the is a good source for the video BECAUSE IT IS HIDEOUS. Darn I am guessing you missed that because your knee jerked so hard it skewed your monitor.

IrishAyes

(6,151 posts)
30. Didn't miss a thing, this time or the first
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 11:11 PM
Oct 2013

I pointed out that you made an undeniably self-contradictory post, due I should say to careless thinking and writing. If you need the fig leaf of trying to blame my question on my allegedly poor comprehension, go ahead and try to cover your rear end that way. Just don't make the mistake of thinking it will fool anyone with an ounce of sense or writing skill. And oh, how masterfully you did try to succeed in deflecting attention away from my other point, the unseemliness of soliciting donations for anything on this website.

Feel like pitching another fireball at my head? Don't worry, I'll tell you right now I can hit it out of the park.

Batter up!

 

MyNameGoesHere

(7,638 posts)
31. I get your
Sun Oct 20, 2013, 12:51 AM
Oct 2013

false anger. It should not be directed towards me. I am questioning the posting of this video and I included a mission statement from the group. Are you that ignorant? I even asked that it be pulled. Really you are just being a fecal cranium now.

IrishAyes

(6,151 posts)
33. The only reason I'm bothering with you this one last time
Sun Oct 20, 2013, 01:44 AM
Oct 2013

is to share the text of one of my extremely rare alerts, the one you just earned.

I wrote:

"I have a reasonably thick skin, at least enough so that I have no trouble jousting with most people. But even I would never call anyone a fecal cranium. That's not just over the top, it's over the moon and I don't mean romantically."

Thought I'd tell you in case you get this message before the mods do. You might get a chance to self delete your last post there before they see it. Not that I think you have earned any such chance.

 

MyNameGoesHere

(7,638 posts)
34. Good on you
Sun Oct 20, 2013, 10:26 AM
Oct 2013

Glad you read through a whole post before accusing someone of something they did not do. Took you a while but it finally penetrated that thick cranium.

IrishAyes

(6,151 posts)
35. Tsk tsk tsk...
Sun Oct 20, 2013, 12:55 PM
Oct 2013

Would you like me to send you a reading primer? Because what I properly pointed out is and was that your compositon skills are frightfully inadequate. If I asked whatever do you mean, it was purely rhetorical. Ever heard of that big word? It doesn't mean I couldn't discern your overall intent. I said and will always maintain that you began in a rather ambiguous manner whether you meant to or not, and that reflects very poorly organized thinking. (Not to mention extremely inappropriate direct appeals for funding, when really you should just offer a link for people to follow and then hit them up for $ there if that's what you're after.)

Talk about jumping the gun! You then immediately try to flail me to shreds and cover your own rear end by crying out in effect that I'm to dumb too understand you. I understood every word perfectly, thank you; what's missing is my acceptance of such drivel.

And oh my, the descent into name calling that you demonstrate. Put on your big boy pants and accept your own inadequacies before you feel entitled to parade your bullying ways in front of the whole world.

You want to know exactly why I've bothered with you so long? For that very reason, knowing that given enough rope you'd figuratively hang yourself in public, showing the depths to which you'll sink when confronted. It always makes a great show, and I do thank you for that much.

While you sit there fuming, poor child, trying to come up with other nasty names to call me, realize one more thing. This is the end of that game. You'll not waste another minute of my time, because believe it or not, I have bigger fish to fry. See ya in the funny papers.

LeftofObama

(4,243 posts)
11. That video gave me the creeps!
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 01:44 PM
Oct 2013


The best part of it was seeing her in handcuffs being escorted by sheriff's deputies at the end.

Guaguacoa

(271 posts)
25. WARNING The video on youtube by wptv news
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 08:48 PM
Oct 2013

You can see her pretty clearly in the one shot from a distance and tell it's her. This is posted on youtube by WPTV NewsChannel 5, the NBC affiliate in West Palm Beach, is Florida's top rated television station. WPTV covers Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast

DWinNJ

(261 posts)
7. I would describe it as
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 11:56 AM
Oct 2013

I would describe it more as someone who was part of the "in" crowd in high school
and has gone nowhere (except maybe a trailer park) since

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)
9. I wish people would stop downgrading those
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 12:35 PM
Oct 2013

who live in a trailer park. I live in a mobile home park and we do not have lowlife scum like that woman living here. I am enraged when I see posts like yours. I am a single retired woman and I found that buying a mobile home was a lot less costly than making mortgage payments on a home. I also have plenty of money in the bank, probably much more than those who are making huge mortgage payments.

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
14. Good luck with that.
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 02:21 PM
Oct 2013

It is very hard to get people on DU to quit bashing people who live in mobile homes.

I own my mobile home and the almost 3/4s of an acre it sits on and love this place more than the brick house I grew up in. It is miles easier to heat and cool and the neighborhood is better than the one where the brick home was located.

But, try telling the people who hate people who live in mobile homes that. Last I checked, I'm not scum either and do not fit their stereotype either. I don't know why they continue to use that stereotype.

sendero

(28,552 posts)
20. It's an unfortunate stereotype..
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 05:26 PM
Oct 2013

... please don't let it bother you, it has nothing to do with you. And BTW I salute those who have enough sense to live within their means rather than try to keep up with the Jones'. The latter never ends well.

DWinNJ

(261 posts)
17. I apologize for repeating a stereotype.
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 03:09 PM
Oct 2013

I will come up with different descriptor for a failed life after glory days in the future

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)
23. Accept your apology, but please do not associate
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 07:57 PM
Oct 2013

a failed life with trailer park residents. I have had a very good and successful life. Unfortunately, I could not afford to retire in a mansion.

Skittles

(153,169 posts)
26. my first home was a trailer, and my family was never "trash"
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 10:06 PM
Oct 2013

thank you for the apology - a lot of fine folk live in trailer parks

JI7

(89,252 posts)
32. i have seen some before/after meth pics which are just a few months or a couple years or so apart
Sun Oct 20, 2013, 01:33 AM
Oct 2013

but just looking at the pics you would think they were taken decades apart.

lib87

(535 posts)
19. Only 30? Wow!
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 03:51 PM
Oct 2013

She needs to reevaluate her life because getting arrested for child abuse, helping raise a bully and looking like a meth addict are not good looks.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
24. wicked stepmom, punching those boys and 2 girls laughing. what a crazy cruel life.
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 08:04 PM
Oct 2013

Woman ran a bully training camp!

24601

(3,962 posts)
36. The video was posted on the internet, so by law it must be true, right? In this case, I kinda
Sun Oct 20, 2013, 01:43 PM
Oct 2013

believe it was real, but I also believe it would not have been that difficult to stage - and there's no shortage of
'morans' willing to fake the whole thing for the publicity.

Arresting her is pretty easy. But the law starts with the defendant innocent until proven guilty. Going to court could be a bit more challenging. There may be a few elements of proof that are not self-evident:

As mentioned above, was it genuine or staged with "actors"?

Presume it's not staged, Where was it filmed? Is there proof it really took place in Polk County? If you can't prove that, who has legal jurisdiction?

When specifically did it occur? Has the statute of limitations for the offense expired?

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