Attacked while helping...
Check out this site for the story of a couple that were attacked when they pulled over to help someone they thought were in trouble and needed assistance.
www.news4jax.com/news/19994711/detail.html?dsq&taf=jax
You always hear news about someone being robbed, attacked, etc., but you really don't think it can or will happen to you or your loved ones. I mean you hope and yes pray. It's in the back of your mind that it could, but you don't really believe it will.
It was about 4:00a.m. on a Tuesday morning. I awoke and couldn't go back to sleep. About 10 min. later my husband awoke. This is not usual for us. At 4:15a.m. the phone range. I yelled to my husband to get the phone. I just had a feeling that something was wrong. "Answer it now" I said. "Somethings wrong." It was my mother in law letting us know that our niece and her fiance had been badly beaten up and were taken to the hospital. I jumped out of bed not knowing what to do.
It is one of the most terrifying moments when you get a call that someone you love has been hurt in an accident. It breaks your heart to know you really can't help. Pray was all I could really do. But it makes you VERY VERY MAD when you find out that this was not an accident, but some young people (ages 15 - 23)who decided one night to catch someone off guard and attack them for no reason what so ever. NONE.
A car was pulled over with its flashers on. My niece's fiance got out to ask if they could help. That's when he was attacked and knocked out by one man almost instantly. You would think that the criminals would have stopped there, but they didn't. Another man began stomping on his head and kicking him. My niece said it all happened so fast. She didn't know what else to do but get out and run to him to try and help in some way. The two ladies (15 & 19) grabbed her and drug her away and began beating her, kicking her and biting her all over. For some reason, as quick as it all began it stopped and the criminals took off. Although hurting she ran to her fiance's side were he was bleeding so badly from the face she thought he was going to die. He was gurgling in his own blood. She ran to the car and got it beside him but he was just to heavy to get him into the car so she ran to the road and flagged down a car. The car was driven by a nurse who called 911 and done some first aide.
I'm trying to keep a positive spirit about all of this, but I'm having feelings that frankly don't go with my personality. All of the "suspects" were arrested upon my niece positively identifying them in a line up, but the very next day 3 of them walked out the door of the jail. The only reason the other remains is because he violated probation so their holding him. The 15 year old is a minor we don't even know her name. The other 2 we have a name and picture which is good since these people live near my niece's home. We are able to warn neighbors by showing them a photo and telling them about the incident. These people could return and finish the job if they wanted. What's stopping them? This is what's so upsetting. You almost kill someone one day and your walking free within a few miles of your victim the next. What are we to do? This is the question? I'm having a hard time trying to figure all this out. If I'm not doing so well with it then how is my niece or her fiance doing? I am mad, furious, outraged. I keep thinking what if this was my son or daughter? Punishment is slow in coming and since some of the suspects don't have a record they will probably walk with a smack on the wrist. You know physically my niece will heal. But she will always remember this attack. The same goes with her fiance, but it will be a long time until he heals. He has several surgeries still to go through to repair his face that was smashed in. Then how long will it take to repair his faith and hope. While it's taking a few months or years for my family to heal physically and mentally. It only took one day in jail and the criminals walked and will most likely remain free for the most part. I just don't know what to think about all of this.
I'm just venting my frustrations now, but I have more in my heart and mind I could say. I won't now. I left out so many details. I might fill them in later. I don't know. For now I pray and think and pray and think. My niece and fiance have bills like the rest of us and a baby that needs them and no way to work due to their injuries. They are still being assaulted if you ask me. Day after day by these thugs that call their selves people. People.....sound more like animals to me.
NO ONE DESERVES THIS.
