Have you ever known or worked with mentally ill people? Trust me. Many of them do not know to protect their young. The mother is the criminal here.

Plus a lot of homeless are mentally ill, and not really suited to making good decisions.

Exactly. Not easy to predict or even see something coming at 100 MPH or however fast the speeder was going.

They all look high. None of them has a hint of sadness or remorse on their faces. Worthless piles of crap. This makes me sick.

Tanorexic.

Haha Twinksmom: "have you seen yourself in a mirror?" I seriously LOL'd.

I can't believe this girl is WALKING when they brought her up! I expected a broken leg at least. WOW! Just amazing, and good on you, Mr Wei! Some people would have kept going.

Yep the girls that bullied my daughter were the straight-A "good girls" who the teachers loved. They'd NEVER do anything like that.... yeah, RIGHT.

Thanks for this. My daughter was bullied in sixth grade and because it was girls she used to be friends with I kept thinking it would blow over, and that I needed to give her tools to deal with it and that if I got involved it would only make it worse. Well it got worse until a substitute teacher happened to witness one of the more horrific acts and called it to the attention of the administration. It was called a "disciplinary situation" and the girl bully had her parents called, but the school dealt with it through sort of an arbitration between the kids, which was a joke because the nasty girl just said "I don't want to be friends with her anymore" and that was that. But the brat was on notice that she was being watched so it helped a lot. My kid was depressed for two years, for starters. She's in college now but her personality and ability to trust people was forever changed by those nasty you-know-whats. My advice to parents: get involved. If that doesn't work, and it persists, put your kid in another school. It's not the parent's fault but our kids tend to tell us less than what is happening because either they don't want us to worry or they are ashamed of what is really happening to them. I'm glad there are teachers out there watching out for kids, and so glad that one substitute teacher put a halt to what my daughter was going through.

Same. My kids played violent video games and watched R rated movies, etc. We talked about it all though. They're all successful educated and responsible adults (well one is still a responsible teenager)... but yeah. It's not the video games.

If I was to guess I'd say it's more likely a teenage or young adult sibling/family member who portrays an image of guns being "cool". That would be a powerful role model to an 8 yr old boy.

Enough for guessing. Hoping the girl survives and recovers fully. And that this boys learns a lifelong lesson he never repeats.