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
Response to n2doc (Original post)
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jtuck004
(15,882 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)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)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)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)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)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)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)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)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.
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)Yes, I see Mr. Kettle, the pot is black.
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)The best part of it was seeing her in handcuffs being escorted by sheriff's deputies at the end.
SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)Thanks.
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)I'm not sure where else the video can be seen.
Guaguacoa
(271 posts)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
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)She looks 45. At least. Meth is a wonderful drug.
Crowman1979
(3,844 posts)DWinNJ
(261 posts)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)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)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.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)sendero
(28,552 posts)... 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)I will come up with different descriptor for a failed life after glory days in the future
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)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)thank you for the apology - a lot of fine folk live in trailer parks
JVS
(61,935 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)She looks like she's been bobbing for french fries.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Her face has that caved in look.
JI7
(89,252 posts)but just looking at the pics you would think they were taken decades apart.
JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)"bird dogs raise bird dogs!"
Fla Dem
(23,690 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)Ash_F
(5,861 posts)lib87
(535 posts)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)Woman ran a bully training camp!
alp227
(32,027 posts)AP original title: Stepmom of teen accused in Fla. bullying arrested
WTSP-TV Tampa: Vivian Vosburg, mother of Guadalupe Shaw, arrested for child abuse and neglect
The Lakeland Ledger: Mother of Teen Accused of Bullying Arrested Over Video Posted on Facebook
Orlando Sentinel: Mom of cyber bullying-suicide suspect seen attacking kids on Facebook, deputies say (Article doesn't name the suspect)
24601
(3,962 posts)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?