I just can’t believe what we are doing to each other! Maybe we should resist putting some of the stuff we watch on TV, like the Police programmes that seem to create a voyeuristic mentality. Maybe we should start thinking about the consequences of so much that we see, hear and do. Why do people get kicks out of another’s suffering and violence? The ’so what attitude’, the ‘do I care?’…. ‘whats it to you’, ‘whatever’, you never hear these on TV do you…. no never. We even make comedy out of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A man cheers as he orders two boys to beat the hell out of each other… but how could anyone get their kicks like this?
By Greig Box Turnbull 27/03/2008
Boy fight (Pic:YouTube)
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Detectives last night vowed to nail the YouTube sicko who whipped two children into a violent frenzy to film these vile scenes.
In one of the most horrifying parts of the footage, the boy in the blue T-shirt bawls and curls up in fright as the other pummels him to the floor and brutally stamps on his head.
But the cheering thug ignores his tears and later bellows: “Smack the s**t out of each other!” The kids, who appear to be as young as 10, eventually tire and cling to each other.
Yet there is no respite and the adult snarls: “Stop hugging each other, little bitches!”
Disturbingly, at one stage another youngster aged around four toddles close to the brawl – held in a child’s bedroom.The Mirror has decided to publish these disturbing pictures and the youngsters’ faces to help police and the public identify the man.
Officers and social workers are examining the two videos. Det Sgt Richard Harris branded them “appalling, disturbing and distasteful”. He said: “It’s a child protection issue and it’s vital that we establish the children are safe.
“This appears to be a case of child cruelty and criminal behaviour. We are taking this very seriously.”
The man does little to hide his twisted glee as he videos them swapping kicks and punches and goads them into even more savage violence.
When the youngster in the white top head-butts his rival, the cameraman whoops: “Billy’s getting gangster!”
His sinister control over proceedings is evident as one lad asks him: “Kicking is allowed, isn’t it?” He goes on to bark: “You’re fighting like girls – fight properly.”
Yet the chilling scenes take place in the innocent setting of a youngster’s bedroom – with teddy bears in the corner and the walls covered in posters. They appear to have been shot in Crawley, West Sussex, and they were posted on YouTube with the titles Lethal Fight (Crawley) and Lethal Fight 2.
But web surfers made clear their revulsion. One wrote: “Who is this sicko? No wonder kids are involved in street violence when they’re encouraged to do it in their home.” Another wrote: “Horrifying. This has to be taken down.”
Following a complaint, the footage was taken down yesterday after five days online.
Police have contacted YouTube’s California HQ to try to trace the computer from which it was uploaded. YouTube pledged to help and said: “Our rules prohibit content like this.”
Last year Plymouth mum Zara Care, 21, goaded her kids aged two and three into fighting on camera. But she, mum Carole Olver, 49, and two aunts escaped jail.
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