LONG BEACH -- Two 15-year-old girls charged with the beating and slashing of a 16-year-old classmate in a vicious attack carried out on a busy downtown street last month pleaded guilty to the crime Thursday.
The suspects appeared for a pre-trial hearing at the Long Beach Superior Court's Juvenile Division Thursday, said Jane Robison, a Los Angeles County District Attorney's spokeswoman.
The teens admitted the petition against them was true, the equivalent of a guilty plea for juvenile court, Robison explained.
Because the suspects are minors, their names, and the name of the minor victim, were withheld by authorities.
All three girls are from Long Beach.
The 15 year olds were accused of attacking and beating the 16-year-old victim near 11th Street and Long Beach Boulevard at about 7:20 p.m. on May 5.
The victim told police she was walking south on Long Beach Boulevard when the suspects, who she knew from school, attacked and beat her.
She was able to get away and was on her way home and walking near Seventh Street and Nebraska Avenue when one of the 15 year olds jumped her a second time, this time cutting her with a sharp object, police said.
The victim was taken by her family to a local hospital where police were summoned, authorities said.
LBPD officers arrested the two 15 year olds on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and added an attempted murder count when booking the girl who slashed the victim, police said.
Prosecutors, however, never filed the attempted murder charge.
The girl who allegedly cut the victim was instead charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon causing great bodily injury - one count for each attack - and one count of witness or victim intimidation, authorities said.
The other 15-year-old was charged with one count of assault with a deadly weapon causing great bodily injury and one count of witness intimidation.
The intimidation charges stemmed from statements the suspects made to the victim during the attacks, authorities said.
Each of the girls ended up pleading to one count of assault on Thursday, Robison said.
The pair were immediately sentenced to three months in the Los Angeles County Probation camp system and will be placed on probation when they are released from camp, Robison said.
The suspects appeared for a pre-trial hearing at the Long Beach Superior Court's Juvenile Division Thursday, said Jane Robison, a Los Angeles County District Attorney's spokeswoman.
The teens admitted the petition against them was true, the equivalent of a guilty plea for juvenile court, Robison explained.
Because the suspects are minors, their names, and the name of the minor victim, were withheld by authorities.
All three girls are from Long Beach.
The 15 year olds were accused of attacking and beating the 16-year-old victim near 11th Street and Long Beach Boulevard at about 7:20 p.m. on May 5.
The victim told police she was walking south on Long Beach Boulevard when the suspects, who she knew from school, attacked and beat her.
She was able to get away and was on her way home and walking near Seventh Street and Nebraska Avenue when one of the 15 year olds jumped her a second time, this time cutting her with a sharp object, police said.
The victim was taken by her family to a local hospital where police were summoned, authorities said.
LBPD officers arrested the two 15 year olds on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and added an attempted murder count when booking the girl who slashed the victim, police said.
Prosecutors, however, never filed the attempted murder charge.
The girl who allegedly cut the victim was instead charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon causing great bodily injury - one count for each attack - and one count of witness or victim intimidation, authorities said.
The other 15-year-old was charged with one count of assault with a deadly weapon causing great bodily injury and one count of witness intimidation.
The intimidation charges stemmed from statements the suspects made to the victim during the attacks, authorities said.
Each of the girls ended up pleading to one count of assault on Thursday, Robison said.
The pair were immediately sentenced to three months in the Los Angeles County Probation camp system and will be placed on probation when they are released from camp, Robison said.
I don't know what case you're talking about, but none of these girls are black. But why let the facts get in your way, right?
The victim wasn't white either, but that's just another fact for you to ignore...
Because the suspects are blacks, their names, and the name of the minor white-victim, were withheld by authorities.
All three black-girls are from Long Beach.
AND NOW YOU KNOW...THE REST OF THE STORY.
...........GOOD, DAY!
My mistake, Tracy.
But, as you reporters so infrequently state the perps or victims race, we all have to fill in the blanks.
And, the blanks are (mostly) always blacks, right?
Not quite.