2 students charged in sexual attack on Florida beach in daylight, 100's watch do nothing!

[Omaha Steve]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20150412/us-gang-rape-spring-break-f9d85180b7.html

Apr 11, 8:55 PM (ET)

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Two college students have been charged with sexually attacking a woman on a crowded Florida beach filled with spring break revelers who apparently did nothing to stop it, authorities said.

Delonte' Martistee, 22, and Ryan Austin Calhoun, 23, were arrested Friday and charged with sexual battery by multiple perpetrators, according to the Bay County Sheriff's Office. The Panama City News Herald ( http://bit.ly/1I3NbsV ) reports both men are students at Troy University in Alabama.

The attack, recorded on a cellphone video, happened sometime March 10-12 in Panama City, Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen said at a news conference. Authorities learned of the assault when police in Troy, Alabama, discovered the video while investigating a shooting.

McKeithen described the recording as the "most disgusting, sickening thing" he had ever seen. Several men can be seen surrounding an incapacitated woman on a beach chair.

FULL story at link.

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Here is the ongoing discussion here on this...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026491828

[Omaha Steve]

4. Thanks

I missed it.

[In_The_Wind]

2. What the hell is wrong with people today!!!

[marym625]

3. Good for the sheriff

Shame on the spectators. The perpetrators - no words. Too despicable

[cali]

5. evidently this is not a singular phenomenon

from the article:

BCSO has gotten leads on other sexual batteries on the beach in broad daylight this year by following social media. In one video, a crowd pours beer on a girl who appears to be incapacitated while a male performs a sexual act on her.

“How many of these do we not know about?” McKeithen said. “We have such an array of blame to pass. My blame is that these people coming to Panama City Beach think this is acceptable.”

Days ago, officers laid out a spread of guns and drugs recovered during Spring Break. One side of the table was covered with drugs, running the gamut from marijuana to MDMA — otherwise known as “Molly” — to cocaine and heroin. The other side held 49 handguns, an amount that increased from nine last year.

[seabeyond]

6. seems we have a whole lot of new "girls gone wild" scumbags. finding the vulnerable girls,

them filming them for their pleasures to share with others, to get off on.

[cali]

7. it's so sick that they can get away with this

and the crowds seem to urge them on. It literally makes me sick.

[seabeyond]

8. well. i was seeing it get to this a while ago. and constantly dismissed, attacked, and told often

that it was the few, and no problem here, just look away. it was easy to see this develop. and why not.

over the last handful of years, our girls roles for too many men of all ages, is their porn.

repeatedy seeing our young girls as porn, they certainly have to dehumanize the girls. you know, not see them as a person.

this is really no surprise and should have been an expected repercussion of where we were going.

[davidn3600]

9. It's a textbook example of "The Bystander Effect"

There is an odd phenomenon in psychology... the greater the number of people witnessing a crime or emergency, the less likelihood anyone in that group will intervene.
Meanwhile, if the bystander is alone, there is a higher probability of intervention.

This called, the "Bystander Effect."

What's happening is that when you have a large group of people, there is a diffusion of responsibility. Each person in the group feels someone else can take the responsibility. The more people you add, the more the responsibility gets divided up. When there is only 1 person present, that one person then feels the strong moral obligation that they have to get involved.

If you witnessed an emergency happening right before you eyes, you would certainly take some sort of action to help the person in trouble, right? While we might all like to believe that this is true, psychologists suggest that whether or not you intervene might depend upon the number of other witnesses present.

The term bystander effect refers to the phenomenon in which the greater the number of people

present, the less likely people are to help a person in distress. When an emergency situation occurs, observers are more likely to take action if there are few or no other witnesses. Being part of a large crowd makes it so no single person has to take responsibility for an action (or inaction).

In a series of classic studies, researchers Bibb Latane and John Darley found that the amount of time it takes the participant to take action and seek help varies depending on how many other observers are in the room. In one experiment, subjects were placed in one of three treatment conditions: alone in a room, with two other participants or with two confederates who pretended to be normal participants.

As the participants sat filling out questionnaires, smoke began to fill the room. When participants were alone, 75% reported the smoke to the experimenters. In contrast, just 38% of participants in a room with two other people reported the smoke. In the final group, the two confederates in the experiment noted the smoke and then ignored it, which resulted in only 10% of the participants reporting the smoke.

Additional experiments by Latane and Rodin (1969) found that while 70 percent would help a woman in distress when they were the only witness, only about 40 percent offered assistance when other people were also present.

http://psychology.about.com/od/socialpsychology/a/bystandereffect.htm