I have been trying to wrap my head around this since reading about it at DST last night and well, of course, I just can't. I just can't begin to comprehend this mentality. It is cowardly and sick and just downright sociopathic. I hope they are caught and punished to the full extent of the law but, honestly, my faith in such justice is not strong. Although it's wrong, a big part of me hopes they are made to feel powerless and are beaten senseless. I'm not a violent person by nature, but things like this just make me want to take a baseball bat to these lowlife scumbags. It makes me so angry and so sad and so ashamed of what human beings can be capable of.
My 16yo nephew was jumped just before Christmas. Not nearly to this extent, fortunately for him, but I know how angry, horrified and sad it made all of us feel. He was very lucky that his face was not messed up, but he did have a broken jaw and had to spend his Christmas Eve getting xrayed so the specialist could decide whether he'd require surgery on Boxing Day to have his jaw re-aligned. Fortunately, he didn't have to.
What made me so angry about his incident was that it happened at school. Not by other students, but by two ex-students, 18 and 19, that were hanging out on the school grounds at lunch. My nephew was walking past with a friend and one of them said, "What are you lookin' at?" My nephew naturally said, "Nothing," and the other macho jerk says, "Oh, you think I'm nothing?!" and shoves him. Then the two of them jump him, one held him down and the other started pounding him in the face. My nephew isn't a big kid, and these guys are the musclebound 'roid popping types, not to mention are supposed to be young adults. Way to be the big men, jerkfaces. WTF is wrong with people like this?! I'll just never understand.
Anyway, sorry for rambling, Sarah. This just made me angry about that all over again, and I'm so angry and sad for what happened to your poor baby sister. I hope she can get through this and be strong once again. She is such a beautiful girl, and this is so unfair. Lots of good thoughts and love is being sent your family's way, Sarah.