Police have jailed two 12-year-old girls from Logansport, Indiana for abusing and torturing another young girl during what appears to be the slumber party from hell… calling the abuse they dealt out “very significant” and “very severe.”
A Slumber Party Turned To A Nightmare of Abuse
The alleged target’s family stated she was dropped off Friday night, Feb. 25, at what she believed would be a slumber party with friends, according to local news affiliate, WXIN-TV. However the following morning, police were phoned call to the residence, where they found the young girl, who is also 12, “battered” and beaten. The family declares both preteen girls hurt their daughter by sitting on her until she could not take a breath, cutting her, shaving her head, and burning her with cigarette lighters, to name a few of the abhorrent abusive acts.
Part of the attack was apparently recorded on video and shared on social media, authorities claimed.
“Unfortunately, I’ve had to watch some of the video — and it’s a good thing we have some video — but it’s unpleasant to watch,” Logansport Police Sergeant Dan Frye told WTHR-TV, adding that the young girls’ actions go well “beyond bullying.”
“It’s very significant, very severe,” Frye added to WXIN. “What the juveniles have been arrested for at this point are different charges related to battery, and anything that you could look at that goes along with that.”
So far, one of the arrested young women has been charged with the juvenile equivalent of 3 felony offenses and a misdemeanor, while the other has not been charged.
Cass County District attorney Noah Schafer told the Pharos-Tribune that the felony offenses consist of criminal confinement, intimidation, and battery resulting in serious bodily injury. The misdemeanor is for battery leading to bodily injury. But Schafer noted that as a result of the alleged criminal’s age, she will certainly not encounter felony charges as an adult.
“You can’t say that a child is charged with a crime the same way you would with an adult,” he said, explaining, “They are alleged to have committed acts that, had they been committed by an adult, would have been felonies.”
The Victim’s Family Responds
In an interview with WXIN, the supposed target’s auntie, Renita Contreras, stated her niece was”tortured, beaten, confined.”
“My niece in the video, looked like she was laying there dead and it wasn’t an image our family needed to see or was ever ready to see,” she continued. “She’s a little girl. What these juvenile females did to her is unimaginable.”
“They didn’t bully her. They tortured her,” added Jaimie Tribbett, the victim’s mother. “Mentally, physically tortured my daughter and it’s not right.”
“It hurts bad because now she has to for the rest of her life look over her shoulder or wonder if she can trust this person or that person. It’s absolutely horrible,” the mother said, wishing as any parent would, that she could’ve helped her.
Sergeant Frye claimed he’s never ever experienced anything fairly similar to this case. “This is the first I’ve seen it this severe as far as juvenile-on-juvenile,” he said. “All we can do is simply give the girl a hug and apologize to her that she had to deal with this. And we’re going to do everything we can in our power to see that justice is served.”
Cops are apparently looking for warrants to get more video of the incident as part of the continuing investigation.
H/T TheBlaze
