SMH - Family of 16-year-old victim believes their daughter was beaten over boy

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Girl-girl fight was brutal: officials
Family of 16-year-old victim believes their daughter was beaten over boy

June 6, 2008
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BY CHRISTIN NANCE LAZERUS Post-Tribune

When Amy Rodriguez got the call a week ago, she didn't think much of it. The caller threatened that her daughter "won't be so pretty."

But it was no idle threat.

On Wednesday, Jamie Rodriguez, 16, was brutally beaten by another teen girl outside a restaurant in Hobart, Ind., officials said.

"Kids constantly talk, so I didn't take it seriously," Amy Rodriguez said. "I just thought they were running their mouths."

Jamie Rodriguez suffered brain damage, is partially paralyzed and is talking like a 7-year-old, Amy Rodriguez said.

Hobart Police arrested a 15-year-old girl shortly after the attack. She is being held at the Lake County Juvenile Detention Center and is expected to be charged with felony battery.

Jamie Rodriguez was taken to St. Mary Medical Center in Hobart, then airlifted to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood.

The incident has traumatized the Rodriguez family and shocked the community.

"Yesterday was the worst day of my life," Amy Rodriguez said Thursday.

Rodriguez and her husband, Gary Police Cpl. Primo Rodriguez, pulled their two other daughters out of school for the rest of the year.

The family thinks the suspect, a classmate at Hobart High School, attacked Jamie over a boy.

The incident started while Jamie was eating at the Hobart restaurant. Amy Rodriguez said several witnesses told her that the suspect pushed Jamie up against a wall outside the restaurant. Jamie fell and the suspect kicked her head. Restaurant employees and patrons tried to stop the fight, but they were pushed back.

A 16-year-old boy said Jamie was crying and saying her head hurt.

Jamie has little memory of the beating that sent her to the hospital, her family said.

Her doctor told the family that her brain rebooted to recover from the trauma, causing her to revert to a happier period in her life.

"I think second grade was a safe time for her," Amy Rodriguez said. "She'll need lots of counseling. Children at that age who go through that trauma, they need a lot of family support."

What is this world coming too

 

[a couple grand]

what the hell did she beat her with?!

 

[areyouin729]

wow

that's sad, that 15 yr old girl should be locked away for life

it's also partly amazing how the human body responds to that by "re-booting" her brain to a happier time

 

[dom90]

damn

 

[ravagebx]

Nobody could stop a fight between a 15 and 16 year old!?

 

[cardizzle45]

it makes me sooo sick that so many people can do things like this in the world...

 

[areyouin729]

Originally Posted by RavageBX

Nobody could stop a fight between a 15 and 16 year old!?

very true, how hard is it to pull a 15 yr old girl back???

 

[ohyeah10]

no grown man could jump in there and stop the fight? WOW

 

[chichiloves5s]

 

[shapeshiftah]

Originally Posted by RavageBX

Nobody could stop a fight between a 15 and 16 year old!?

my thoughts exactly. must've been senior citizen day at that restaurant or something.

hope the victim pulls through and recovers fully.

 

[lawdog1]

Originally Posted by RavageBX

Nobody could stop a fight between a 15 and 16 year old!?

15 and 16 year old girls! WTH???

 

[sadikmac]

Maybe the suspect was She-Hulk...

It's really such a wonder how no grown-up was able to stop the fight.

Damn, maybe those people thought that it would be fun to see a catfight.

Then, knowing of the aftermath they suddenly all felt mutually about covering each other up about why they weren't really able to stop THAT ONE, SINGLE,LONE (yes, redundant) 15-year-old girl. Thus, "they were pushed back".

 

[wawaweewa]

Originally Posted by RavageBX

Nobody could stop a fight between a 15 and 16 year old!?

People are too busy taping fight nowadays to put them up on youtube.

 

[dirtylicious]

Originally Posted by RavageBX

Nobody could stop a fight between a 15 and 16 year old!?

there were probably other kids there watching and egging it on.

 

[vi3tsi06]

#+@*! too crazy now adays

 

[rockin my xiii]

Originally Posted by OHyeah10

no grown man could jump in there and stop the fight? WOW

 

[grizzlyboy]

Originally Posted by OHyeah10

no grown man could jump in there and stop the fight? WOW

 

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Originally Posted by Dirtylicious

Originally Posted by RavageBX

Nobody could stop a fight between a 15 and 16 year old!?

there were probably other kids there watching and egging it on.

I was thinking the same thing

 

[ravagebx]

Originally Posted by Dirtylicious

Originally Posted by RavageBX

Nobody could stop a fight between a 15 and 16 year old!?

there were probably other kids there watching and egging it on.

Possible as well as probable. Kids will be kids in that regards. My problem is more with the adults who were likely on the scene and either chose not tointerfere or were too scared to. Maybe if it were two boys but two girls? Someone should've been able to break that up, I don't see how some kidswould've been able to stop adults from interfering.

 

[grandaddypurp415]

I dont really think it was a fight that lasted very long, it said she pushed her against the wall, which probly f'd her up then she fell on the ground,where she got kicked in the dome. Anything else go down. none of them kids had their camera phone out

 

[joe mcknight is ballin]

Restaurant employees and patrons tried to stop the fight, but they were pushed back.

 

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Originally Posted by GrandaddyPurp415

I dont really think it was a fight that lasted very long, it said she pushed her against the wall, which probly f'd her up then she fell on the ground, where she got kicked in the dome. Anything else go down. none of them kids had their camera phone out

yeah it was the brain trauma

 

[albaiswack]

Restaurant employees and patrons tried to stop the fight, but they were pushed back

 

[wawaweewa]

Originally Posted by seaner23

Originally Posted by areyouin729

Originally Posted by RavageBX

Nobody could stop a fight between a 15 and 16 year old!?

very true, how hard is it to pull a 15 yr old girl back???

a few years ago i was at the county fair and a couple of teenage girls got into it, and me and like 3 other dudes had a hard time breaking them up. girls are scrappy fighters and once they get ahold of hair or something like that they ain't letting go. finally 2 sheriffs came up and we got them seperated. so 2 sheriffs and 4 average sized dudes had a hard time breaking up 2 teenage girls.

You were probably too nice.

I remember 1 fight I was trying to break up and the 2 dudes weren't listening and I got pissed. I kicked the dude in the back of the knee and startedyelling at him.

 

[militaryiv]

...hope she pulls through