Three High Schoolers SMIRKING In Court After Burning Cigarettes On Classmate’s Private Parts

[Music]. bada bing bada boom three International. High School students were sitting side. by side in a row we have 18-year-old. Helen her boyfriend John and Helen's. best friend Coco they're all planning. what to do for Helen's 19th birthday. that's coming up in literally a few. weeks Helen's like maybe I'll go visit. my parents back in China maybe I'll. bring JN to meet the parents formally. for the first time ever it would be kind. of perfect because six of their closest. friends just flew back to to China from.

California so they could all reunite and. have fun Helen could drive them around. her hometown and her Maserati I mean. they were all really really excited the. excitement was pushing them to be a bit. goofier they're poking fun at each other. giggling Whispering Helen and John. they're still in their puppy love face. so they're sharing these suggestive. looks they're eyeing each other up and. down in front of everyone else in that. room the only time that they really snap. out of it was when the door slams open.

and Helen's arch nemesis her absolute. enemy walks in and Helen's thinking her. again how dare she show her face after. everything she put them through all. three of the friends Helen cooko and. John they stopped talking to glare at. her walking into the room she never even. glances back at them but they make sure. that she can feel their eyes burning. holes into the back of her head they. wanted to make her feel as uncomfortable. as possible.

and then their names were called Helen. Coco John it was their turn so they. stand up straighten out their shirts. walk up to the front unfortunately for. them they were not in third period they. were not standing in front of their. teacher they were in a courtroom and it. was their turn to be tried for assault. kidnapping torture they with nine of. their closest high school friends. kidnapped mutilated and tried to light. their High School Club classmate on fire.

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comments and with that being said let's. get started the six high schoolers they. looked nervous on the plane maybe this. is their first time on a long. international flight without their. parents they were flying from LAX to. Shanghai China and they just kept. anxiously glancing around the airport. like the entire time through security. they kept their heads down almost as if. if they lift their heads someone's going. to recognize them and even now that. they're on the plane they still look a. bit anxious like they're going to throw. up any minute now they look like they.

haven't showered they spent all night. packing and rushed to the airport if you. opened up their suitcases you would. likely see that they just shoved. everything inside they didn't neatly. fold any of their clothes they probably. left most of their belongings back in. California where they would never be. coming back because if they ever dare. step foot on American soil again they. would be arrested and tried for. kidnapping and torture meanwhile another. flight was headed in the opposite.

direction so from Shanghai to California. one by one six families land at LAX most. of the six were middle upper class. families in China I mean they're not. super rich they're not the upper echelon. of society but they're very well. respected in their fields and industries. and yet here they are canceling every. single meeting that month booking. emergency flights flying to America to. handle their kids they have these. emergency meetings amongst them and. they're granting they're complaining.

it's so ridiculous we did not pay this. much intuition every single year for our. children to be treated this way one. mother tearfully spoke up first my child. only watched and she was still arrested. I just don't get it like who do we have. to talk to to get this resolved another. parent was almost crying my son only. brought the scissors he didn't actually. even use them on her the others used the. scissors what's so wrong with just. grabbing the scissors for them they. asked him to grab the scissors and for. him to face the same level of charges as.

the others that actually use the. scissors it's just ridiculous what kind. of justice system is this another. parents stated we're not rich like all. of you guys you know we sent our kids. abroad we scraped up every last penny in. our savings to give these kids a better. future and now we're spending all of our. money on attorney and our kid could. still go to a US prison all of the. parents nodded and agreed their children. the ones they saw once or twice a year. the ones that they shipped off to. America and sent them big allowances to.

just keep them quiet they're good kids. should they really be judged for merely. 5 hours of their entire lives it was a. 5H hour mistake they've lived 16 19. years I mean how many hours is that. total a lot this is just five they're. good kids and now that the case has gone. viral the parents have to deal with the. fact that their children are the most. hated high schoolers in all of China.

they don't even go to school in China. now here's a hypothetical question if a. group of teenage boys were stuck on a. stranded Island how would they survive. how would they maintain some semblance. of order would someone just start taking. charge and everyone would blindly follow. would there be a fight between two. people who want to be the leader of the. crowd there's a story of a bunch of. British boys this is a fictional story. of a bunch of British boys that were. stranded on an island without any adult. supervision and each passing hour you.

just see how these boys start losing. their minds like they go deeper and. deeper down this hole of Madness and. some of them never get out initially. they try to keep the peace in order they. replicate society that resembles the one. in regular life they elect a leader. Ralph Ralph is a pretty reasonable guy. his main focus is getting a signal fire. to attract the attention of any passing. ships he's like we got to create shelter. we got to create a fire because. someone's going to flag us down and we. need to be safe until they do we're. going to be here for a while and then.

there was another boy named Jack Jack. wants to be the one in charge but he. doesn't want to waste his time Building. A Fire or some sort of shelter he wants. to hunt he keeps telling everyone. vegetables fruit grass leaves that's not. going to do anything for us if we want. to be on this island for a long time and. survive we need meat meat is the most. important thing meat is what's going to. keep us going he decides to lead the. hunting group who is in charge of not. only hunting but keeping the signal fire.

going and Jack convinces the group. listen forget this fire nothing is as. important as this meat the rest of the. group sees ships passing by they get. excited knowing that their fire is going. and they're going to be rescued only to. discover that Jack convinced the other. boys that the fire was useless and meat. and killing is the answer it Jack almost. becomes so fixated on the act of killing. his first animal Jack tries to overthrow. Ralph from popularity by convincing the. other boys that this is is what they. were put here on this Earth to do to.

hunt it's their. purpose he creates rituals and even. creates some sort of beast on the island. this like shadowy monster that's going. to kill them all at night and his belief. is if he creates enough fear in the boys. if they have a common enemy they're all. going to be way too scared to go up. against him they will think that the. safest spot is under his guidance they. will even go as far to kill another boy. because they mistake him as the Beast. and in the end egotistical Jack.

convinces the other boys to hunt Ralph. down like an. animal it is a whole journey that they. go through and in the end they are. rescued by the British Army and all of. the boys have to face the music of what. they did on that island when they. thought that nobody else was watching. when they thought that there were no. consequences this is the story of The. Lord of the Flies the judge presiding. over this International bully case. called this exact situation the Lord of. the fly situation when a group of high.

school kids with no supervision create. their own subculture and they just start. creating enemies so vile so evily. someone takes charge ego gets ahead of. them and they decide to torture people. they literally start hunting other kids. like animals and Oxford High School is. that stranded Island Oxford High School. is a private school for Middle upper. class families in China it's in Roland. Heights in Los Angeles. yeah it's in the San Gabriel Valley area.

it's a well-known Asian District strong. strong population of Chinese and Koreans. so you would imagine a private school. catering to the middle upper class. families in China and in Korea it would. be an impressive educational institution. because why would you send your kid. abroad unless that's what you're doing. but it doesn't really look like the type. of place you would have your child fly. Halfway Around the World to attend in my. opinion it looks so much worse than like. 99% of public schools in America but.

this is one that you have to pay tuition. for there's no sprawling campus no. state-of-the-art facilities classrooms. with IMAX that we associate with private. schools no Olympic siiz swimming pool. like most expensive institutions Oxford. High School is located in the back of a. shopping plaza imagine your local. American shopping plaza with a Ralphs. and a nail salon and a Panera Bread like. the true definition of Suburbia the. school is behind that Plaza it's not.

even part of the. plaza the fence facing the mall parking. lot is the school's. entrance if you were to walk out of the. school from the main gate you would end. up directly in the shopping plaza. parking lot it's just kind of tucked. away in the back the parking lot looks. like it would be terrifying to go to at. night the facilities include portable. classrooms with foldable tables three. worn basketball hoops a volleyball net. and a soccer goal just sadly sitting on. a patch of dead grass wealthy parents.

pay $133,000 a year for their students. to attend Oxford High School that's just. tuition that's not living cost that's. not flights that's not food nothing just. tuition which in my opinion feels like a. really bad deal but there is something. very fascinating about this place there. are allegedly 140 International students. in attendance mostly from China this. means that this school makes on average. $1.8 million a year in just tuition.

costs alone some might have the opinion. and this is just an opinion not a. statement of fact because I don't have. personal ties to this institution. curriculum or even their financials but. an opinion could be that the school. works with parents to get International. students F1 student visas get them into. the US parents pay tuitions to make sure. the Visas stay valid because they have. to be in school and it could be in. someone's opinion that the school's main. focus is not necessarily education but. rather the legal status of residency for.

students this is purely a theory and. opinion I guess one could formulate by. looking at the state of the school it's. also rumored that most of the students. there do not speak English and yeah sure. it's because they just moved but it. might seem to some that this school just. does not have the best or the most. rigorous curriculum the students are. mostly here in the US without their. parents and they live in what's called. homestays homestays are a huge part of. the international student experience. and I think it's kind of wild when you.

truly sit there and think about it. because of just how unregulated the. system is families in America regardless. of their ethnicity I think they just. have to have permanent residency or. citizenship they go to agencies apply to. be a Homestay family that means they. will let an international student. usually middle high schooler come stay. with them on a student visa they will. give them their own room in the house. they will feed them every day they will. in turn receive an agreed upon them. amount by the students family who are.

usually still in their home country. legally the homay family will be. registered as the students legal. Guardians in the United States the part. that's wild is sometimes they don't even. speak the same language the homestate. families and the international students. in order to qualify you do a few. background checks you talk about what. kind of food you're going to provide for. the student what language is spoken in. the home and that's it it's not like a. foster home where the parents are more. or less respons responsible for the kids.

well-being and they're required to take. on some level of parenting or adoption. where you have to provide every aspect. of parenting possible most homestate. families this is not a dig at them it's. just the way that I think the quote. contract or situation is usually set up. most of the students parents don't want. the hom stay families to take on. parenting roles they just want an adult. in the house a supervisor this is purely. anecdotal evidence but from the Korean. hom State situation I've personally. witnessed the younger the Homestay.

students are the more the Homestay. families will try to be pseudo parents. by encouraging them to sleep eat. healthier sleep earlier study more but. because the student is also how the hom. stay family gets paid they don't want to. overstep their boundry they don't want. to say too much they want to keep the. students somewhat happy usually the. students parents don't even want that. they just want the homestate parents to. act like adult. supervisors usually high school. homestate kids I mean the most that I've.

seen the most parenting I've seen them. get from their hom stay families was. just enforcing curfew that's it they. truly didn't care too much about their. grades even but even then they can't. really get mad at the student for not. following curfew so it's kind of like H. you're enforcing it but are you really. there's actually a name for this the. students are referred to as parachute. kids because the parents from their home. country will just ship them off to a new. country with a parachute and hope that. they land correctly all by themselves.

the main incentive of this because it. sounds crazy when you just think about. it from this perspective but if you're. studying in middle school or high school. in the United States it is much easier. to get into an American college than if. you went to high school in Korea or. China for example so if you're trying to. apply to UCLA way easier if you're a. high school student in the US and once. you get into that American college so. much easier for your life here get. citizenship have more opportunities in. the US specifically China and Korea I. know a lot of people want to send their.

children to study in the US not because. like oh my God us Supremacy or anything. but just a sheer amount of competition. in those countries the work environment. where you legally only work 50 hours but. you probably work like a 100 hours a. week the competition to get even a. low-paying job is so Cutthroat and. miserable unless you have money and. connections it's a miserable life it's. definitely a hard life and I'm not.

saying it's easy anywhere in the world. right but it's a very I think a unique. work environment that a lot of parents. don't really want their children to. experience because they themselves have. experienced it so they send their kids. to places like America and sometimes it. really does work a lot of Homestay kids. they understand the purpose of being. here so they're super self-motivated. they get into great universities they. become a very strong contributing member. of society here whereas other parachute. kids. The Other Extreme they end up in schools.

only to hang out with other Rich. parachute kids they never learn English. they create their own mini Societies in. the school they drive around in Mercedes. no curfew no rules no parents they stay. out past 2 a.m. on school nights spend. their time at karaoke bars Chinese tea. houses they're drinking they're smoking. they're spending their allowance on. anything that they want that their. parents pay them and they also have a. tendency to try and rep at some of the.

bullying environment that you might see. in other places and again this is not a. dig at like China or anything I think. different countries just have different. ways they handle bullies so I know in. China and in Korea bullies are often. handled on the school level in America. bullying is technically a crime so if. there's assault it's happened on the. legal level regardless of if you're in. school or not if that makes sense so. there is that slight difference I don't. think one is better than the other I. guess it's up for you to decide side but. just a little difference now most of the.

high schoolers at Oxford they fall into. this latter category they have their own. unsupervised Society within the school. none of them have parental supervision. at home it doesn't seem like the. teachers and administrators at the. school are even that involved in their. lives there were 86 students the option. to make friends build new connections. super limited and so what happens when. you're stuck in this group and you're de. veloping and you've got all this teenage.

angst and no supervision no guidance a. lot of drama unfolds there's a lot of. tension and clicks within the 86. students and it feels more heightened it. feels higher Stakes because each friend. group they need an enemy to stay. together I'm going to explain the. Dynamics in a second but they do not. have supervision at the school or at. home okay just to give you like a visual. picture and I'm not judging them but a. lot of them would wear stilettos to. school they would smoke cigarettes in. the parking lot literally right outside.

the door at school which can you imagine. doing that that's pretty that's ballsy. they would skip class to go drive their. Mercedes and drink at tea houses. underage drink it seemed like it got to. the point where a few of them even lost. touch with reality like they have no. idea how consequences and how the real. world Works they think this is the world. this little school this environment. that's it or at least that's how Helen. felt she was Lord of the Flies Ellen was. Queen Bee she was one of the Richer ones.

at the school back in China her parents. bought her a Maserati she was always. seen driving around in a BMW she hated. on cars lesser than hers like recently. her parents had bought her at Lexus and. she hated it lexuses are luxury Vehicles. by the way but she wrote on social media. about her parents bought her a Lexus and. quote dude this is such a stupid car I'm. going to [ __ ] go insane driving this. car bro it's like those Tik toks yeah. and just like Jack from Lord of the.

Flies she needs an enemy to keep the. rest of her group behind her because. she's not going to do it with her. Stellar personality they need a purpose. something to talk about on a daily basis. someone that they're up against because. if there's no common enemy then the one. in charge Helen naturally becomes Enemy. Number One for the rest of the group it. would only be natural for them to slowly. want to Dethrone Helen so she needs to. have a mission for them to all look. towards and that person. is chamelia Helen noticed most people.

from her group were from Shanghai. chamelia was not from Shanghai so she. told them chamelia talks [ __ ] about. everyone from Shanghai how every. Shanghai person is trash she looks down. on. Shanghai I have no idea if Chamilia ever. said anything disparaging towards. Shanghai I don't know where she's from. or if this is just a big. misunderstanding I feel like I can see. Helen saying something along the lines. of well this is how we do it in Shanghai. and IIA being like well that's kind of. dumb like I don't think she's saying.

this is how shanghan people do it but. just like you know she bully someone and. she's like this is what it's like in. Shanghai and Chamilia might be like. that's dumb and instead of taking it as. is Helen you're being stupid for being a. bully she could have turned around and. told everyone chamelia said Shanghai and. everyone from Shanghai is stupid Helen. and the girls would post on Facebook and. social media who gave that the audac. to offend everyone from Shanghai another.

one reads [ __ ] I'm so pissed off. does she eat more [ __ ] than she eat salt. how can every word that comes out of her. mouth be [ __ ] she dares offend everyone. from Shanghai hering audacity at this. point it becomes very clear to Chamilia. whether or not she said something mean. towards Shanghai or not Helen is. targeting her looking back it seems like. chamia had made a comment on Helen's. picture once and okay so this started a. year ago one year before the crime Helen.

had posted an overly intimate picture. with one of camelia's exes chamelia. clearly trying to make Chamilia jealous. and annoyed Chamilia saw it and she. responded in the comments these are the. guys that I'm done playing with. insinuating that Helen was getting her. leftovers which okay yeah not the nicest. thing to say but it's just a tiny Taste. of Helen's own medicine she is the evil. queen of the school she physically beats. students on a weekly basis it's time.

someone put Helen in her place right. Helen did not think so she waged a. year-long war against chamelia and there. is only one option when someone like. Helen is targeting you avoid them at all. cost like if you don't they will find. something else to have a problem with. did you accidentally breathe too loud. near them did you stare at her for 2. seconds too long she will point it out. and blow it out of proportion and try to. spin it to be something that it's not. like what happened to Ma. 2 days before Helen was kidnapped Mai.

was one of the students at the school. and she saw Helen bullying her friend. outside ma runs over gets in between. Helen and her friend and everything just. goes pin silent like you could hear a. pen drop something snaps in Helen it's. almost this mixture of excitement on. torturing someone but also a mixture of. pure anger that someone even dared to. stop her from doing what she wanted to. do Helen gave my one single warning. that's all would get get out of my way.

mik grabbed her friend's arm and walked. away the next day in class in front of. everyone Helen walked straight up to Mai. and slapped her across the face everyone. got quiet and pretended like they didn't. see because they didn't want to say. anything cuz they would be next Helen. put her arm around Mai like a good old. friend brought her outside drove Mai to. the quiet corner of the parking lot in. the plaza and started beating her. kicking her in the ribs punching her in. the in the face John Helen's boyfriend.

is just standing there watching her all. the while Helen is screaming do you know. who we are how dare you Snoop around in. our matters you should get to know who. you're messing with I'll make you. remember today she accused Mai of being. disrespectful and needing to be taught a. lesson ma was beaten for over an hour. her arms were covered in cigarette Burns. her entire face was swollen and when Mai. went back home she was with homestate. parents she was terrified that if her. homestate parents saw her State her. condition they would call the police.

then Helen would find out that she quote. ratted them out and it would just cause. more bullying and more problems at. school so ma wore a face mask all day at. home until her whole face healed and she. avoided her Guardians at all cost the. mentality that a lot of the kids at this. school Oxford High would develop was. Helen's not going to stop there's no. consequences so you're just going to get. beat up just get it over with just crawl. into a fetal position hope that Helen's. not extra angry that day and then get it. over with and then stay out of her way.

she'll move on to the next victim ma was. not the first victim either there were. so many before her Helen just beat. whoever she felt like whenever she felt. like if you looked at her the wrong way. if you accidentally stepped on her foot. in class you would be beat what's crazy. is the teachers and administrators even. if they know what's going on they did. nothing to stop it or even to reprimand. the students there were literally no. consequences because the school makes. money with more children being enrolled. and the tuition for One International. student is three times out of a domestic.

student and because International. students support the majority of Oxford. High the administrators allegedly just. close their eyes and let Helen be but of. course that's not going to help Helen's. behavior all she knew was what are. consequences there's no such thing as. consequences her behavior her bullying. her temper her violence it got so bad. that she went through multiple different. Homestay families she was kicked out to. the curb multiple times the host. families they called their parents like. I can't do this anymore your child is.

out of control she's like a taking time. bomb I don't feel safe with her in my. house Helen's parents were not alarmed. they just found a new host family and. sent Helen more allowance to help her. emotionally recover from being kicked. out of the mean host family's houses. Helen did not even let it bother her. because she's the queen of the Flies so. chamelia tries to skip a few days of. school and diffuse the situation she. hopes maybe Helen would find someone. else to bully or maybe she would forget. about it but instead Helen posts on.

social media stupid [ __ ] doesn't even. dare come to school because she's scared. hahaa 2 days after Mai was assaulted. chamelia received a text message from a. girl named Lou to come meet her at an. ice cream shop she hoped it would be. Helen or the girls handing out an olive. branch but it was not that night. chamelia would be driving with way too. many high school girls jam-packed in the. back seat they're all sitting on top of. each other in the back no nobody's using. a seat belt if chamelia got pulled over.

she would have been arrested there were. way too many people in the back of her. car legally speaking Camelia almost. wished she was pulled over she's. gripping her steering wheel her Knuckles. are turning white one by one she's. dropping off the girls and each time. they would smirk thank chamelia for a. great time and for the ride and said. that we should do it again sometime they. would slam the door shut chamelia would. not even look at them she would just. stare straight ah head at the road. expression dead Knuckles white focusing.

on the steering wheel she just needed to. hold it in like a tiny bit longer she. just had one more girl to drop off the. one right next to her in the front seat. Helen when she pulled up in front of. Helen's car Helen said thanks for the. ride but she pauses and turns to. chamelia and says you know if you tell. anyone what happened I'm going to tell. everyone that it was your best friend. who did this to you not us and every. single one of those girls that you. dropped off they're going to back me up. it'll be 12 against your word do you.

really want your best friend to go to. jail and with that Helen smirks and gets. out of the car chamelia felt exhausted. and numb from 700 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. the. 12 high schoolers had tortured her like. I said earlier that day chamia received. a text message meet me at honeyme the. ice cream shop to discuss things the. text said it was from a girl named Lou. and chamia knew Lou since they were in. elementary school so it's not like the. strange strangest thing to receive a. message from her they knew each other.

but chamia was a bit hesitant because. you know fine it's honey me but we. haven't been close in a really long time. so Lou apparently changed after becoming. friends with Helen and even bullied. chamelia recently or at least tried to. bully her but it would also kind of be. weird for her to not show up right. because they're going to see each other. again at school after the weekend and. she's going to wonder why did you ignore. my text message and then it would be a. whole thing so chamia thought you know. what I'm just going to bite the bullet. at least she's asking to meet me in a. very public place it's an ice cream shop.

but just as a precaution chamelia asks. her best friend Albert to come with her. so it just wouldn't be so awkward and. weird on the way there chamelia is kind. of feeling better about the whole thing. she's thinking you know what they're. friends with Helen maybe Helen's over it. maybe Helen wants to have some sort of. like peace meeting maybe she's going to. sit there and be like Helen wants to. have a nice chat with you like I think. she feels bad and then chamia would be. like you know what I feel bad and they. could all be better again but the minute. that they walk in through the ice cream. shop doors they know that's not what's.

going to happen chamelia felt her heart. drop because sitting right next to Lou. with a smirk on her face is Helen and. her boyfriend John they smile and they. wave at chamelia and now it's way too. late to turn around because then what. what are they going to say at school. then it would just make things worse. more Awkward more uncomfortable probably. more violent maybe her and Albert could. sit down push through all of this share. an ice cream it would be so awkward but. at least it'd be less awkward than. running out right now right chamia did. not have time to think about her options.

Albert sat down oblivious like clueless. to how bad all of this was about to get. Camelia trails along sits down she. assumes because we're in such a public. space it's going to be safe right before. Albert can even bite his ice cream Helen. turns to him and asks you should leave. what I think what we're about to talk. about should really just be left between. girls it's a girl matter which is weird. cuz Helen's boyfriend is sitting right. there. but Albert felt pressured I mean I have.

no idea if Albert had any clue what. Helen had planned for chamelia but he. got up took his ice cream and left. chamelia alone at the ice cream shop but. still it's a public space right chamelia. sat there trying to just stare at her. lap thinking of all the excuses she. could try to use to leave but Helen's. already on her phone calling her friends. one by one in front of Chamilia asking. them to come to the ice cream shop her. best friend Coco was the first to pick. up and she smirked when she heard Helen. was with Camilia and she stated over the.

phone I'll be there in a minute in total. there were 12 of them Helen her. boyfriend and 10 of Helen's little. minions including her right-hand wing. woman Coco something to note these are. all International students whose parents. are from China most of them are from. Shanghai and all of them for whatever. reason hate chamia Chamilia thought okay. now there's no point of trying to make. it less awkward it feels like life or. death she just needs to get out of out. of here she gets up to leave but before.

she can she feels this cold hand on her. arm what are you doing we have a full. day planned ahead of us Helen puts her. arm around Camilia and guides her to the. cars outside they're going to take a. quick visit to the park Roland Heights. Park camia tries to fight back and. verbally says no but they're basically. kidnapping her they arrive at the park. at 700 p.m. most families made it back. home the Sun is setting they choose a. very remote area I mean most people. don't even Venture off and Hike into.

this part they drag Chamilia out of the. car throw her onto the floor and they. make the next 5 hours a living hell they. throw ice cream on the ground clean it. up they start smearing it with their. stilettos use your. hands if she misses a spot a high heeled. shoe would lift up from the ground and. smash into her rib one of the high. schoolers took camia's phone and started. smashing it into pieces in front of her. on the ground stomping her heels into it.

another girl kicked her in the back of. the knees so that she was kneeling in. front of them and Helen laughed but of. course in the beginning Helen didn't. even lift a finger she just stood there. arms folded across her chest literally. like Queen of the Flies instructing her. little minions where to beat where to. punch where to kick coko is standing a. little bit behind Helen smoking a. cigarette I mean these two girls they. genuinely think that they're in some. sort of gangster movie and I mean the. only thing I can say is play stupid. games Win stupid prizes they supervise.

the torture of Chamilia eventually one. of the girls brings over a giant jug of. cold water and Helen nods in approval. they pour it all over Chamilia her. entire hair and body are drenched in. cold water and at this point the sun has. set in La it gets pretty cold at night. it's getting really chilly I mean of. course that's the least of camia's. worries but just to give you more. context on how miserable this experience. is Helen sees chamelia holding on to. herself. shivering she says someone take off her.

clothes for a second everyone went quiet. it's kind of an odd request I mean they. never usually went that far right they. would just beat people to a pulp right. but getting them nuded it felt like it. was crossing some sort of new barrier. and side note they're also evil so I. don't know why they act like they have. morals but maybe they also thought it. was weird that Helen's boyfriend JN was. there too and Helen has notoriously been. a very very jealous girlfriend why would. she want her boyfriend to see another. girl naked coko straightened her.

shoulders and said I'll do it she asked. two of the other girls to hold camia's. arms while she was kneeling on the. ground and Koko forced all of her wet. clothes off of her so now chamelia is. kneeling in the cold completely nude in. a public. park a huge speculation on this part a. few things up until this point actually. till the very freaking End chamelia. never once showed weakness she tried. fighting back and then eventually she. stopped fighting back she was severely. outnumbered she realized it's not going. to work but she did in a sense like that.

submit to the torture that's happening. because there's no way out of it so it's. not submitting to the torture it's being. smart about it right but she never cried. she never begged for them to stop she. never complimented Helen in hopes of. winning her over saying like please. you're right I'm going to listen to you. you're the queen be she just stared dead. into their souls and perhaps Helen. thought getting her completely naked in. public was going to degrade her to a new.

bottom a new low where she would finally. submit and beg or cry but it didn't work. chamelia never gave in so Koko removed. the cigarette from her mouth stared at. it smirked walked over to naked chamelia. and started burning it all over her. chest and her. nipples she would hold it in place. waiting for Chamilia to scream or. cry but she would not. the other girls joked we should take it.

slower so we can last longer you know. stamina Coco would joke you think you're. tough right eventually everyone breaks. Helen is standing there watching all of. this with her arms crossed and she's. seething just dripping with hatred like. this disgusting yearning for power that. she was not getting from this abuse one. of the girls notices that Helen is. losing her patience and in an effort to. prove herself to the queen she brings. out her lighter and suggest they just. light chamelia on fire Helen smiles and.

nods they hold chamelia down who again. is not crying not begging not groeling. at their feet they try and try to light. her hair on fire but because these. monsters these people had just soaked. her completely in water it doesn't work. Helen stared at all the parts of camia's. chest that were basically burned and. mutilated by Coco but it just wasn't. enough because now Helen's thinking you. know she could hide these behind clothes. she could wear clothes to school. tomorrow and no one with no if we can't.

light her hair on fire let's just cut it. all off she turns to her boyfriend and. asks him to go home go home to fetch a. pair of scissors he leaves goes home to. fetch a pair of scissors brings it back. I mean I'm truly at a loss for what kind. of relationship this is I feel like you. would imagine girls like Helen would be. pikm and only show this evil side to all. the girls but hide it from the boyfriend. and act like a soft little girl in front. of them but the fact that she's showing.

this side to her boyfriend and he's. dutifully going to grab the scissors. it's so bizarre he comes back with the. scissors and finally Helen kneels down. stares at camia's face and she just. starts roughly chopping off all her hair. throwing it onto the dirty sticky ice. cream melted gravel beneath Chamilia and. tells her eat it I'll let you go home if. you eat it all chamelia freezes still no. tear tears no begging she goes to grab a.

fistful of hair with her hands but they. stop her and Helen says mm-m with your. mouth like a dog the other girls take. that as a cue to smash chamelia face. into the ground making her eat her own. hair along with. sand she's still unclothed soaking wet. with burn marks bruises all over her. body and when they're done they made her. drop them all off March 30th 2015 a 911. call was placed after midnight on the.

other end was a soft weak girl's voice. she was not crying she was not. hyperventilating it seemed like she was. very confident of what she was saying. but she just did not have enough energy. to say it loudly she just sounded. exhausted but the message was clear my. name is chamelia I had just been. kidnapped and beaten for 5 hours by my. classmates please help me police arrive. at the scene pick up chamelia they get. ambulances I mean there was no question. if her was true or not her hair was. extremely choppy like someone had turned.

off the lights in the bathroom and just. started lifting up strands of hair and. just blindly chopping not even caring if. the scissors were were going to cut her. face every part of her hair was like an. inconsistent length her entire body and. face were covered in bruises her face. hands and feet were so swollen she. couldn't even stand she had burn marks. all over her body and every time she. tried to sit up stand on her own she was. wobbling like a baby giraffe. her entire body looked damp as if she. just got out of the lake 30 minutes ago.

but never had a towel so she was forced. to air. dry the police were just unnerved. they're thinking can this really be the. work of high. schoolers the nurse is almost winced. when they gave her a more thorough. examination they tried to ask her about. her pain levels because pain is a. subjective thing so a lot of hospitals. they have P pain level scales they're. just trying to see where your pain. tolerance is and how much pain in right. now most pain scales are from 0 through.

10 so a score of zero means no pain 10. is like the worst pain you've ever felt. in your life so zero no pain one pain is. noticeable but then like you don't. really think about it it's like a paper. cut you know if you think about it it. hurts but if you don't you forget two is. minor pain maybe a paper cut when you. have to run it underwater it's that like. ah annoying pain three noticeable pain. but you can still distract yourself. maybe if you play a video game. four moderate pain if you're involved in.

a high-intensity activity you can ignore. the pain for a little while five. moderately strong pain you cannot ignore. the pain for more than a few minutes you. will be like oh my God I'm in pain six. you're in a lot of pain and you're still. trying to do your normal day-to-day. activities but you're not performing. well you can't concentrate on anything. but your pain seven strong pain you. cannot do your normal activities. eight very strong pain it's hard to do.

anything at all nine you can't even hold. a conversation with someone because. you're screaming in pain 10 the worst. amount of pain imaginable it's. interesting doctors say the Pain Scale. is just part of what they're looking for. so it's not just the number that you say. they'll actually analyze your breathing. your blood pressure while you talk about. your pain they take into consideration. if you were just calm giggling or asleep. 2 seconds ago before you rate your pain. a 10 out of 10 so there's a lot of. factors that they consider but it was.

clear a lot of Chamilia injuries were. between 8 to. 10 and nobody would question that her. injuries were really bad and they were. all inflicted by high schoolers when. Helen was arrested she looked really. bored she looked really arrogant like. it's not that big of a deal all she has. to do is pay a fine or pay the victim. some money shut them up be on their. merry way so why are all these cops. pretending to like go through these. motions she turned to the Head officer.

when she was arrested and said how long. do you think this is going to take I got. to go home back to China for my 19th. birthday later this month they just. smiled at her cuz they're like there's. no way this girl is going home for her. 19th birthday she's probably going to be. in. prison they didn't tell her that though. they just let her slowly find out Bale. was set at $3 million each for Helen. coko and John so there were 12 bullies I. mean it it was really easy to find them. most of them went to Oxford High with. chamelia she knew who they were out of.

the 12 six were arrested the very next. day what about the other six they fled. the. country three of the six that were. caught were minor so we don't have their. names the other three were above the age. of 18 we have Helen her boyfriend John. and. coko they would be tried as adults so. note about the six that fled the country. technically they're going to have no. consequences zero consequences China. will not be trying them for the crime. because it took place in America the.

only thing I guess is if they ever set. foot in America again they will be. arrested at the airports but still. that's not really a consequence compared. to what they did to Chamilia meanwhile. the parents of the sixs the three minors. the three adults they all really wanted. the torture charges taken off because. torture for adults carries a life. sentence with the possibility of parole. at least for the adults one of the. attorneys even tried to argue for Helen. Coco and John he stated I'm sure these.

kids suffer from loneliness so they bond. with other kids in the small Chinese. circles with no supervision no one to. turn to for assistance so these things. they can get out of control John's. attorney threw Helen and Koko under the. bus and basically stated he's merely a. bystander all he did was grab the. scissors Koko's attorney threw Helen. under the bus and they stated Koko is. more of a follower than a leader she's a. very young girl she's not mature enough. to evaluate everything happening in the.

park and make a more thoughtful careful. decision everyone was trying to point. the finger at Helen who honestly could. not care less like the minute that she. stepped into that courtroom she's. smirking she's giggling she's making. like sexy eyes at her boyfriend John she. is not taking any of this seriously she. is not afraid she just has this cocky. expression on her face that a lot of. people describe as wanting to punch it. off of her she acted like what's the big. freaking fuss.

everyone. geez when chamia went up to the stand to. give her statement Helen kept. interrupting her and commenting on her. statement glaring at her trying to. intimidate her to shut up you would. think that chamelia was giving a science. project speech and Helen is bullying her. in class which is still horrendous but. it's kind of unimaginable that someone. is doing this in the courtroom she's. cussing at chamelia in front of the. judge while she's on trial for trying to. set chamia on fire the looks she's. giving Chamilia were so heinous the.

judge warned her you got to stop or else. these are the three that plad not guilty. later Helen's attorney would argue. mental illness I mean I guess Helen was. beyond helping so he really has no. choice but he's like clearly she's ill. during psychiatric evaluations it was. determined that she was in a completely. stable mental state at the time of the. incident and capable of bearing. responsibility Helen's attorney read her. statement in court which Helen thought. which Helen thought was going to help.

her case side note Helen seems really. really upset about the fact that the. internet hates her so she thought Not. only would this get the judge to see her. for who she really is which is like this. sweet kind person but the internet would. fall in love with her after this too let. me know if you think it worked Helen. wrote your honorable Judge attorney and. everyone concerned I sincerely apologize. to everyone I am so sorry I've made a. terrible mistake and there's nothing I. can do to make things better for the. people that I've hurt I accept full.

responsibility for my behavior and I. hope my consequences are a lesson that. helps others avoid making similar. mistakes I'm not a bad person this case. is about two days of my life I wish I. could go back in time and wake up the. day before this happened and do the. right thing but I know that's impossible. and now I will accept the punishment for. what I did it's very hard for me to say. how I feel right now I feel scared but. also glad that this case is over I. wanted to improve myself stay out of. trouble and even earn a college.

education while in prison I'm a good. student I know education is important. for my future when I'm released and. while I was in jail during awaiting this. trial I not only worked on my schoolwork. but I began studying the Bible every day. I know that Jesus will help guide me. through my stay in prison and for the. rest of my life I know he has seen the. changes in me and seen the remorse in my. heart I just feel so regretful and I. have sought forgiveness and I hope to. earn it as I said I'm not a bad kid if I.

am judged based on the two days out of. my 19 years that got me into so much. trouble I must look like the worst. person in the world I have read that I. am hated here and in China I probably. deserve to be viewed that way but the. other and better side of me is a person. who tries to help other people people. who know me they write nice letters. about me they know that I'm a young lady. who loves and helps others in every way. that I can while in jail I've helped.

others learn better English and even. Spanish I've received honors from jail. for my studies I always look forward to. receiving new books to read from my. mother I want to thank my parents is. this an Oscar winning speech or is it. like yeah I want to thank my parents for. helping me through this part of my life. especially my mother who has traveled. back and forth to China to visit me in. jail I owe everything to my parents I. know I've let them down but I promise I. will someday make them proud again they. sent me to the United States for a.

better life and a better education along. with that came a lot of freedom in fact. too much Freedom that I just wasn't used. to in China I was very obedient and. cheerful while living with my parents. here I became lonely and lost I didn't. tell my parents how I felt because I. didn't want to burden them I didn't want. them to worry about me I wish I told. them how I felt I took all that stress. and carried all the emotions by myself. without saying a single word I'm sure my.

emotions began to take over and I did. bad things to people I reflect on my. behavior and I ask how could I have done. such bad things I have no answer except. to say there's no excuse and no one to. blame but myself I really miss my family. my friends and the little things in life. that we don't really think a lot about. until we lose them life is not only. about having the latest iPhone or pretty. dresses. also when people like make a really.

heinous action but they're like let me. tell you what I learned from this you. are in no teaching spot lady like you. are not a motivational speaker girl. what's going. on it's about respecting others and. being kind and respectful to your. parents and everyone else when I got. arrested in this case I lost those. things I never thought about the. consequences now I know what bad. behavior can do to you and how fast I. can lose the love and company of my. parents and my freedom I'm asking Those. whom I have harmed for forgiveness I'm.

deeply sorry I mean that with all. sincerity I hope they do not carry the. wounds from what I did throughout their. lives please find it in your hearts to. forgive. me the whole time the attorney read her. statement Helen had her face covered. with paper so we have no idea what her. expression was well she didn't read it. oh no her attorney read it what the she. covered her face with paper wow she just. sat there I mean I doubt her face looked. remorseful I mean the fact that she's. talking about how she's only being. judged for 2 days of her 19 years of. living is honestly arguably I don't know.

why her attorney approved it was she. cover the face yeah she was like. covering her mouth area like this and. stuff with paper what what is. that I feel like she's probably smirking. or she knew it's full of lies and can't. look at The Drudge yeah they sent me to. the United States for a better life and. a fuller education along with that came. a lot of freedom in fact too much. freedom that I was not used to in China. I was very obedient and cheerful living.

with my parents here I became lonely and. lost I just think sometimes I don't know. why the attorney let this happen it's. just logically speaking not the smartest. Choice it it would take 10 seconds for. someone to shoot someone and kill them. should they be judged for those 10. seconds of their lives because 10. seconds is such a short amount of time. compared to the 50 years that they. didn't shoot someone like what is that. argument and it's clear where all these. kids are getting it from none of the.

parents were any better one of the dads. of the miners was arrested during this. trial he flew from China got arrested. why he tried to bribe the victim to say. something nice about his daughter tried. to give the victim money hoping that the. judge will give all the other kids hire. sentences and go lenient on his daughter. because the victim would say this one. was the one that was nice or she seemed. like too scared to stop it yeah the.

victim did not fall for it he was caught. trying to bribe the victim was arrested. on suspicion of bribery and obstruction. of. justice it only backfired because it. only attracted more attention to this. case in China I will say this case blew. up a lot more in China than in the US. and for a lot of. reasons Chinese neens were so disgusted. and it also was a soft point for the. nation itself because there are a lot of.

you know hard relations with the United. States and to have these high schoolers. that are Chinese Nationals go to the. United States do such heinous things it. was just so disappointing and. embarrassing as a nation so it became a. topic of conversation where it's not. just a bullying case but like what are. we doing as parents like are we headed. in the right direction is this a good. idea for parents to just like parachute. their kids to all these other countries. if they can't handle their children like.

that's not good parenting and his arrest. would only draw more attention to that. the prosecutors would end up dropping. the charges because he was technically. caught before he could actually pay and. bribe the witness but I think answered. the question that neisens had of how do. the kids even get like this yet they're. parents the answer is they're parents in. the end Helen was sentenced to 13 years. in prison kidnapping assault and serious. personal injury she can get out in 8. years for good behavior. Koko who burned Chamilia with cigarettes. was sentenced to 10 years but can get.

out in 5 years and then John was. sentenced to 6 years in prison but can. get out in three the first time the. court saw any emotion other than giggly. Cockiness and sexual inuendos and looks. between all of them was when their. verdicts were read they sobbed so hard. their whole bodies were. shaking yeah I guess they couldn't. believe it according to their defense. attorneys they advised their clients to. not appeal because if they continue to. fight they will likely get higher. sentences this was the absolute best.

outcome that they could have ever wished. for which is. infuriating as for the three underage. kidnappers they had a private trial they. were all sentenced to under a year in a. juvenile facility and they will not be. deported back to China after they. complete their sentence the three adults. will be deported back to China a lot of. people were upset about this there was. actually a lot of discourse amongst. Americans too about Helen John and coko. and about the American prison system and. justice system when it comes to foreign. Nationals who commit crimes some.

American taxpayers were upset that their. taxpayer money is supporting these three. in jail and then they just get sent back. to their home country then others were. arguing actually no the American prison. system is so miserable they kind of. deserve it so it was a debate but these. were the most hated high schoolers in. China a lot of Chinese netizens they did. feel very embarrassed on behalf of the. nation but they also were using this as.

an opportunity to change how they saw. things so there was actually a movement. of sorts to have way stricter rules and. regulations enforced for bullying and. high schools in China even though this. didn't take place in China so they were. saying how this is actually maybe we. should follow that route so in China. right now if you're caught for bullying. it's amongst the school and. administrators in America it seems like. it was legal case we should make it a. legal case and another thing is the.

victim ended up suing the three adults. for you know wrongful involuntary. captivity or something along those lines. right and it was another conversation in. China because for financial compensation. for crimes in China it's really hard to. reach a settlement when an adult causes. a death the victim's family is only. compensated typically for funeral. expenses emotional and mental damage. compensations are not as common in China. but in the US courts are usually more. open to taking that into consideration.

for victims of violent crimes so China. was really enraged about this and. netizens are saying maybe there are a. few things that we should also adapt. into our legal system because it just. doesn't make sense which side note I. don't want to make this like a one. country versus another country or a. comparison I think bullying is. definitely an international problem. every country has a lot of work to do to. create a safer space for children I mean. clearly in America I would hardly call. school is a safe space for kids so. safety in schools generally is a global.

issue that needs to be addressed so it. was a way to have that hard. conversation but this did not stop the. internet from ripping Helen Coco and Jon. to shreds Tiffany was even telling me. about this but they called John helmet. head hair boy they ripped apart Helen's. statement one redditor said I love how. the girl blames her situation on too. much Freedom when the root cause is too. little personality ethics and adult. supervision you don't need a boot on. your neck and a gun to your back to be a. decent human being and do the right.

thing other Chinese netizens joked and. laughed about how they were really. excited to see what kind of bullying the. three adults endure in prison in the US. prison system other Chinese netizens. wrote about how Chinese parents need to. do better when sending their children. abroad it's only hurting them but they. convinced themselves that this is the. best thing that they can do is provide a. better education by being away from them. but what are your thoughts. do you think a lot of this has to do. with the fact that they were left. unsupervised in a new country do you.

think regardless of where these heinous. people were they were going to do. heinous things eventually do you think. the punishment is Harsh enough let me. know in the comments please stay safe. and I will see you guys on Wednesday for. another episode bye.