Wayne Treacy (15) allegedly beat Josie Ratley (15) until she was comatose.

[dogday]

Girl, 15, beaten, critically hurt at Deerfield Beach Middle School, boy charged

A 15-year-old girl was viciously attacked by a boy outside Deerfield Beach Middle School on Wednesday afternoon and remains hospitalized with critical injuries, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office.

Investigators have arrested a boy they say punched the girl, then smashed her head on the pavement and continued to kick her and stomp on her head with steel-toe boots as she lay unconscious, said Sheriff's Office spokesman Mike Jachles.

Josie Lou Ratley, 15, of Deerfield Beach, an eighth-grader at Deerfield Beach Middle, was taken to Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale. Jachles described her condition as "extremely critical."

"This is nothing short of a savage beating," Jachles said. "She was unconscious and defenseless. A teacher had to physically pull this boy off of her."

Investigators were interviewing Wayne Treacy, 15, of Pompano Beach, on Wednesday night and plan to charge him with attempted murder, Jachles said. Treacy was being held at Broward's Juvenile Assessment Center.

The attack comes just five months after Deerfield Beach Middle was rocked by an incident in which a group of students were accused of dousing their classmate Michael Brewer, 15, with rubbing alcohol and setting him on fire at an apartment complex.

Wednesday's incident unfolded at 2:49 p.m., just after school dismissal, at the school bus loop on the east side of the campus at 701 SE Sixth Ave.

Jachles said the 15-year-old suspect in the beating is a ninth-grader at Deerfield Beach High and went to the middle school intending to harm the girl. There were early reports that comments were circulating that had enraged the boy, Jachles said, but those details were still being checked and he did not know what led to the attack.

School district officials would not comment Wednesday night, saying they were still awaiting information from investigators and trying to determine what happened.

One parent who was with her son Wednesday night as he attended swim practice with the city's recreational league at the school, said she was shocked by the attack.

"It's horrendous, of course. Any kind of teenage violence is horrible. It's tragic all the way around," said Debbie Hunter, of Boca Raton. "This was probably a personal attack," she said.

It was in October that Deerfield Beach Middle, a magnet school that draws students from all over Broward County, was rocked by the attack on Brewer.

A group of teens confronted Brewer at an apartment complex, doused him with rubbing alcohol and lit him on fire, authorities said. Brewer suffered second- and third-degree burns over most of his body and was hospitalized for months.

Three teens, who were Brewer's classmates at Deerfield Beach Middle, have been charged with attempted murder and await trial.

Brewer's grandmother Reenie Brewer recently launched a crusade against teen violence and on Wednesday evening issued a statement in response to the 14-year-old girl's beating that read: "My heart goes out to the parents of both of these children. This is another tap on the shoulder that says 'wake up.' We need to start paying attention. How many more children are going to be hurt before we start tackling this problem head on?"
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/girl-15-beaten-critically-hurt-at-deerfield-beach-385891.html

His http://www.myspace.com/demonic569.0818

Hers http://www.myspace.com/josiegirl5678

[StarrySky87]

"Deerfield Beach Middle School student Josie Ratley, 15, was savagely beaten by another student and is now in a coma at Broward General Hospital. Wayne Treacy, 15, is accused of the beating, which arose over a text message. The two students did not know one another. Josie Ratley's aunt, Linda Sarmiento, and the family's attorney, Rick Freedman, spoke Friday at the hospital.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/508/index.html?media_id=11771441&genre_id=4216#ixz z0ij3waahS"

http://www.miamiherald.com/508/index.html?media_id=11771441&genre_id=4216 (March 20th, 2010)

Josie: http://www.myspace.com/josiegirl5678
Wayne: http://www.myspace.com/demonic569.0818

What a fucking asshole ...  :2angry:

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[StarrySky87]

:lol: You were 1 minute quicker than me ...

[irishkat]

There seems to be a serious problem at this school.  Whatever happened to a good old fistfight?  Must they light people on fire and stomp their heads on the pavement?  WTF?  I cannot fathom what is going on.  We need some values education in our schools, because clearly some of these kids are not getting it at home.  By values education, I'm not talking about religion, but some kind of basic humanism. 

[Bella]

Note to self: Never move to Florida.

[irishkat]

[quote author=GothaBella link=topic=24661.msg1569190#msg1569190 date=1269099426]
Note to self: Never move to Florida.
[/quote]

I'm sure it's lovely, but, that sounds like a good decision. 

[Creature Feature]

Pfff, teens. Cant we just kill them all and start over with a new batch? This one seems tainted

[irishkat]

[quote author=Creature Feature link=topic=24661.msg1569301#msg1569301 date=1269105638]
Pfff, teens. Cant we just kill them all and start over with a new batch? This one seems tainted

[/quote]

tempting  :2tongue:

[deeply shaded]

[quote author=Creature Feature link=topic=24661.msg1569301#msg1569301 date=1269105638]
Pfff, teens. Cant we just kill them all and start over with a new batch? This one seems tainted

[/quote]

I've got a pretty good one. Can I keep her?

[irishkat]

[quote author=deeply shaded link=topic=24661.msg1569487#msg1569487 date=1269111984]
I've got a pretty good one. Can I keep her?
[/quote]

We'll consider it.  :lol:

That being said, you are super lucky that you do.  It takes a lot of hard work to end up with a teen you actually like.  Good work!

[deeply shaded]

[quote author=irishkat link=topic=24661.msg1569511#msg1569511 date=1269113437]
We'll consider it.   :lol:

That being said, you are super lucky that you do.  It takes a lot of hard work to end up with a teen you actually like.  Good work!
[/quote]

She was just really easy, but I paid my dues with my first one.

[Ron_NYC]

[quote author=irishkat link=topic=24661.msg1569511#msg1569511 date=1269113437]
That being said, you are super lucky that you do.  It takes a lot of hard work to end up with a teen you actually like.
[/quote]
Noted.

[deathbecomesme]

Ugh, this poor girl.

I hope she pulls through.
And I hope he is given a life sentence. I don't give a shit that he is 15 years old. He's a evil little bastard and should be locked away forever.

[Bella]

There is already another thread on this. Maybe a mod can merge them.

[deathbecomesme]

They are saying it's a coin toss whether she lives or dies.

[img]http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/410*307/Josie+Ratley.jpg[/img]
I really hope she pulls through. What a freaking little psychopath he is.


Josie Ratley sleeps calmly in a medically induced coma, but doctors say her injuries tell just how brutal the attack on the 15-year-old girl was.

Her face is swollen and the internal bleeding inside her head was so severe, doctors had to remove a piece of her skull to relieve the pressure.

Now, it's touch and go.

"We have to wait and see how she's going to respond. It's very severe," Dr. Mayra Dominguez said at a press conference on Friday.

Dominguez was joined by several of Ratley relatives, who spoke for the first time since she was attacked at Deerfield Middle School by Wayne Treacy.
Doctors think it is a coin flip whether the girl lives or dies. The family still can't believe Ratley was the victim of school violence.

"We're all going through a traumatic time," said Linda Sarmiento, Josie's aunt. "We're still beside ourselves. She's not with us. She's battered. She's hooked up by machines. She cannot respond to us."

Ratley's mom was too distraught to speak to the media and did not show up to the press conference.

Dominguez said she has only seen injuries like the one's Ratley has suffered in serious car accidents.

Police said Ratley was punched, knocked to the ground and had her head repeatedly slammed on the concrete. Then, Treacy stomped on the girl with his steel-toe boots. It took a teacher to pull the high school student off the girl.

Police think the attack was sparked by text messages about Treacy's dead brother.

Prosecutors are discussing whether to charge Treacy with attempted murder. A 13-year-old classmate of Ratley's has been arrested as an accomplice in the attack.

[deliberate_misuse]

A 15-year-old 8th grader?  Weird.

[PunkerDuckie]

[quote author=deliberate_misuse link=topic=24661.msg1569899#msg1569899 date=1269150770]
A 15-year-old 8th grader?  Weird.
[/quote]

My nephew is 14 and in 8th grade (feb birthday). It makes sense if maybe the kid got held back a year.

[Deviant Toaster]

Holy crap Wayne is a total monster. There was a lot of hate and anger he put into beating Josie.  Lets hope he actually gets more than a pat on the hand for his behavior.

I really do hope Josie recovers.

[sheeppiss]

Even if she does survive, who knows what her mental condition will be.  Poor girl  :-(

[kissmedeadly8989]

13-Year-Old Held As Accessory In Student Attack

A 13-year-old girl, charged in connection with the brutal beating of a Deerfield Beach Middle School student, was ordered held in juvenile detention for 21 days.

Attorney Jonathon Marne confirmed Friday that his client, Kayla Manson, was being held after Circuit Judge Michael Orlando determined there was probable cause to hold her on a charge of accessory to attempted first-degree murder. Her next court date is March 26, along with the other suspect, 15-year-old Wayne Treacy.

Manson was taken into custody on Thursday, one day after the attack that left 15-year-old Josie Ratley hospitalized in critical condition.

Manson's mother, grandmother and aunt attended her hearing. They did not comment when it was over but Marne said Manson and Ratley were "best friends" and "The family wanted to wish Josie a very speedy recovery."

BSO detectives say Manson was charged because she helped Treacy find Ratley even though she was aware that he was planning to hurt her.

At a news conference Thursday, BSO detectives said Ratley's beating was triggered by a text message dispute between Ratley and Treacy.
They say it all started when Manson, who is Treacy's girlfriend, used Ratley's cell phone to text him. Manson had been using other people's phones to send him text messages because she didn't have one of her own, Sheriff Al Lamberti said.

Lamberti also said Ratley objected to the boy's relationship with Manson and said so during an exchange of text messages with him. Then Ratley texted Treacy something about his brother's suicide, which set him off.

"Those messages went back and forth and one of the messages was a comment regarding the suicide of his brother five months ago, that's apparently what set him off," Lamberti said. Treacy then sent text messages to other friends, saying he was going to kill Ratley and break her neck, authorities said.

Authorities said the boy then rode his bicycle to the middle school and got Manson to help him find Ratley. Police say Treacy almost beat up the wrong girl before Manson pointed her out. The girl "knew he was going to do this, did nothing to stop him, and in fact, directed him to Josie, the victim, and pointed her out," Lamberti said.

Treacy is accused of banging Ratley's head on the pavement repeatedly and stomping on her head with steel-toed boots, authorities said Thursday. A teacher pulled him off the girl, who was airlifted to a hospital.

Defense attorney Betsy Benson, who's representing Treacy, said the brother's suicide played a role in the incident. "I think that what we are going to find out is that the impact of this had a lot to do with this situation," Benson said. Treacy found his 30-year-old brother's body hanging from a tree outside a Pompano Beach church last October and his attorney says Treacy was traumatized.

Treacy, a ninth-grader at Deerfield Beach High School, appeared in court Thursday afternoon and was ordered held at a juvenile detention center for 21 days while prosecutors determine whether to charge him as an adult. He was arrested after the attack Wednesday on a charge of premeditated attempted murder. His next court date is March 26.

Students from the same middle school were also involved in an attack last year in which a teenage boy, Michael Brewer, was set on fire.

"It seems like with this youth violence happening, it seems like we have a culture of callousness going on with kids. We really have to get to the bottom of it." Lamberti said.

http://cbs4.com/local/Josie.Ratley.Wayne.2.1575169.html

[lostlilgirl]

I was just watching this on a news station.

Poor girl.  :-(

The animal that did this to her needs to be put away forever.

[Nocturnity]

Wow.  Teenagers are horrible little monsters.

[leyash]

Whoa... how scary that must have been for her. :(

Marking my spot.

[irishkat]

[quote author=Nocturnity link=topic=24661.msg1570730#msg1570730 date=1269219009]
Wow.  Teenagers are horrible little monsters.
[/quote]

They certainly can be. 

[sarabei]

Seriously,  What kind of monster just thinks it is alright to attack someone, especially a girl (if you are male) to the point they almost die?  WTF is wrong with young people today?  They think violence and hate is the answer to all of life's woes?  You know what?  I hate he found his brother that way, I am sorry his brother committed suicide but FUCK HIM, other people have just as traumatic events happen to them and don't go off half cocked and try to kill someone.  That is NOOOO excuse.