California parents charged with hate crime for kidnapping boy hiding in teen daughter's closet.

originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
a reply to: PsychoEmperor

So you believe a kid was hiding in the closet for many hours just waiting for the other children's parents to come to appear and then attack them....um yeah ok if that doesn't seem a little far fetched to you cool man.

it does seem far fetched... that's exactly what I said. Why was a police report not made? If someone attacked the step father why was the police not called right then, why only AFTER HE went the police did they start talking about being attacked?

a reply to: [post=24584290]PsychoEmperor[/post

It's a story at this point and we don't really know what happened, the story itself is muddled, so while yes find a stranger in your closet it's a problem, but find your daughters boyfriend well that presents its own somewhat different issues.
it's almost as if these stories were written to inflame tensions...

originally posted by: PsychoEmperor

originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
a reply to: PsychoEmperor

So you believe a kid was hiding in the closet for many hours just waiting for the other children's parents to come to appear and then attack them....um yeah ok if that doesn't seem a little far fetched to you cool man.

it does seem far fetched... that's exactly what I said. Why was a police report not made? If someone attacked the step father why was the police not called right then, why only AFTER HE went the police did they start talking about being attacked?

Hmmm...probably because when the parents found out that their daughter invited her boyfriend into the house they then realized that he was not some stranger trying to rape their daughter. Their focus would now be on their daughter and they told him to just get out and they didn't want to see him again.

Police responding to their call would have simply told him he had to leave and escort him off of their property...just as the parents did. They had no reason to think that he would go to police and make a statement as such...so obviously, they would only speak of the attack when questioned by police.

originally posted by: ElectricUniverse

JULIA JACOBO,ABC News Sun, Aug 25 4:48 PM MDT

The parents of a 15-year-old California girl are being charged with a hate crime after they allegedly kidnapped and abused their daughter's boyfriend after they found him hiding in the home, according to police.

On Thursday afternoon, the 17-year-old victim went to police to report that he'd been held against his will, assaulted and threatened by three people at a home in San Bruno, about 12 miles south of San Francisco, according to a news release by the San Bruno Police.
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The girl's parents also allegedly yelled racial slurs throughout the attack, causing the teen, who is black, to believe his race "to be a motivating factor in the attack," police said. All of the suspects are of Hispanic descent, police said.

The teen's older sisters, Belkys Gomez and Katherine Gomez, alleged that the victim attacked their parents after they found him hiding in a bedroom closet, which is why they restrained him.

"They were so scared because they found someone in the closet," Belkys Gomez told ABC San Francisco affiliate KGO. "They jumped because everyone was sleeping and this guy started kicking my stepfather and trying to kill him."
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California parents charged with hate crime for kidnapping boy found hiding in teen daughter's closet, police say

So, not only was this teenager hiding in the closet of his supposed girlfriend, but when the parents arrived at 2:30 AM, when everyone else in the house was sleeping, they didn't know whom he was and because they tied him with a rope the teen later went to the police and alleged that he was tied up because of his race? and the police arrested the parents?...

WTH is going on in California?...

First of all, according to the article when the parents, including stepfather, arrived everyone was sleeping, but the parents found the 17 year old inside the closet... If i arrive in my house and see someone i don't know hiding in ANY of our bedrooms I would immediately take a firearm and point it straight to the "invader." i don't care if the color of the "invader" is white or any other color. Then I would call the police, but if the "invader" assaulted me or anyone in my family I would shoot him/her.

The 17 year old was eventually released by the parents, which leds me to believe they found out he was the boyfriend of one of their daughters.

But according to the other two daughter the 17 year old attacked by kicking, and apparently tried to kill the stepfather, and for this the ones whom were arrested were the parents and stepfather?...

WHAT IN THE WORLD???...

BTW, if you look at the pictures of the parents and stepfather, the mother and one of the men are "brown."

But they were charged with a hate crime because they thought the 17 year old was an intruder?...

What's more down in the article one of the older sisters stated:

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Katherine Gomez told the station, "He punched her and then my stepdad, of course, is not going to let anyone hit his wife. They tried to stop him and he was acting very violent so they grabbed a rope to try to tie him down and ask him why he was at the house."

When asked by a KGO reporter whether their parents hurt the victim, Katherine Gomez replied, "No, they didn't," adding that the the accusations of racial slurs are "not true at all."
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From original article.

So the 17 year old was violent, punched the mother and kicked the stepfather, and despite the fact that there were several witnesses whom stated what happened the parents were charged with a hate crime and put in prison?...

Um; this is clear cut. Black kid was doing the daughter, parents came home -- he hid in the closet, while she pretended to sleep.

I mean wtf.

a reply to: hopenotfeariswhatweneed

My argument is that the full story trumps the 1st paragraph. They had no idea he was the BF until after they detained and questioned him and discovered it, that is per the story. It's a thing called context.

a reply to: PsychoEmperor

Because he went from a stranger who attacked them to then becoming an invited guest of their daughter after questioning him. Why at that point would they need to call the police when the identity was discovered?

They considered the matter done and over, so they had no need to talk about being attacked. It makes sense for them to bring it up after the police show up at their doorstep though.

a reply to: hopenotfeariswhatweneed

he said "a strange man"

I thought Epstein did not wait long enough after his fake suicide

a reply to: hopenotfeariswhatweneed

So let me get this straight, if you found your 15 year old daughters boyfriend hiding from you in the closet in the early hours of the morning when you got home you would shoot the kid ? Like really ?

He's in my house at 2:30 am with my 15 year old girl, hiding in the closet, and I didn't invite him in. There's only one way out for him after that. A body bag.

a reply to: hopenotfeariswhatweneed


Dammit. You said "trumps" That verb is bound to trigger a bunch of people.

a reply to: hopenotfeariswhatweneed

I have tried to edit/remove this double post multiple times and it always fails. Wtf?
My phone locked up and when I refreshed, it posted it twice.

originally posted by: stelth2
a reply to: hopenotfeariswhatweneed

So let me get this straight, if you found your 15 year old daughters boyfriend hiding from you in the closet in the early hours of the morning when you got home you would shoot the kid ? Like really ?

He's in my house at 2:30 am with my 15 year old girl, hiding in the closet, and I didn't invite him in. There's only one way out for him after that. A body bag.

Sounds like you're a dangerous and violent criminal.

a reply to: crunchypeople

You can't remove a double post .

I'll hold off judgement until more facts are known.

I must say, I find it odd that instead of kicking the kid's ass out the door, they tied him up to restrain and question him. Did the daughter just lay there silently and not scream out "It's my boyfriend!" while the parents were freaking out thinking this was a stranger? I'm sure it couldn't have been too long before they found out it was the boyfriend and at that point, what further questions needed to be answered by the boyfriend?

I dunno, my reaction would be to pull the kid, kicking and screaming, out my front door, slam it in his face and then go question my daughter. If the kid came out swinging, why wouldn't the parents have called the cops on him for assault? According to the video here- abcnews.go.com..., the biological father showed up minutes after they found the kid, was he called to help remove him from the house? If so, why were the police not called to help as well?

I don't understand tying the kid up. If you can keep him still long enough to tie him up, surely they could have booted him out the door?

I understand defending themselves if the kid just came out swinging, I just don't understand the aspect of tying him up and questioning him, nor do I understand not calling the police if they were attacked first? Something doesn't add up.