This article is about how these 5 teens are charged for robbing and kidnapping an 89-year-old elder, Margaret Smith. Two teens girl approached Smith and asked for a ride across town, Smith decided to as a good deed but then the two girls stole her car keys and stuffed her in the trunk. Smith was there for two days without food or any of her needed medications, and was later dumped in a cemetery where she was found by someone and brought to the hospital.
http://gma.yahoo.com/kidnapped-89-old-her-captors-got-kind-other-155806683--abc-news-topstories.html
One struggle here is the one Smith faced while she was kidnapped. She, an elderly, had to struggle to live in the trunk of her car for two days. As an elderly she already is more weak in health, but two days without food, water, or any medication is horrible. I feel ashamed to know that the ones who forced her into the trunk and robbed her were teens my age. I was always raised to respect my elders, and I feel disgusted towards those other teens. It's also horrible that this started off with the attempt at doing a good deed...
I agree with you that how could teens do this to an elderly person and just leave her like that in a cementary. I would be ashamed and extremely guilty if I even thought of doing this.
ReplyDeleteThis is really horrible; it's hard to think of a solution to this sort of thing. Probably the best way would be if teens like these could be taught better; they more than likely came from neglectful or bad homes where they were not taught that kidnapping 89-year-olds is unacceptable and wrong. But it is difficult to teach kids from those backgrounds these lessons, when they've never had examples to look up to in their own lives.
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