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After three years, justice is finally being served against the teenagers who had set another boy on fire in 2009.
17-year-old Matthew Bent, who was originally charged with second-degree attempted murder, was charged as an adult on the lesser charge of aggravated battery, officials said. He will be sentenced on July 23rd and faces between four years and five months to 15 years behind bars.
A total of three teenagers were involved in the burning of Michael Brewer. Bent, Denver Jarvis and Jesus Mendez poured alcohol over Brewer and then set him on fire. The day before they had assaulted Brewer, Bent had come to Brewer and demanded him to pay $40 that he owed him. When Brewer refused, Bent stole Brewer’s father’s bicycle. Brewer immediately went to the authorities and the police arrested Bent for the theft. The next day, Bent was released and he, Jarvis and Mendez attacked him. Eye witnesses reported they heard the teens calling Brewer a ‘snitch’ as they beat, 15-year-old Jarvis poured the alcohol on him and then 16-year-old Mendez used his lighter to set him ablaze.
Brewer ran to an apartment complex pool and dove in to put out the flames; it was about 100 yards from where he was first set on fire.
Burns covered 65% of Brewer’s body and he was hospitalized for over two months.
Despite Bent pleading not guilty, Jarvis and Mendez pleaded no contest and each are serving time in prison. During Bent’s trial, both Jarvis and Mendez also took the stand and testified against Bent.
“It’s over and done with,” Brewer had stated. “I think they’re just jerks and they got what they deserved.”
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Bhim
June 27, 2012 at 12:07 am
@Bernice-news flash. Bullies are going to be bullies whether prayer is in school or not.
Michelle
June 23, 2012 at 2:41 pm
See this is why they need to introduce public cainings and hangings. No need to waste anymore tax dollars on feeding these monsters.
coast cooker
June 22, 2012 at 8:09 pm
When they go to prison I wish they get stuck in the b**t by Bubba..
BlacknProud
June 22, 2012 at 7:47 am
One way to stop this madness is to charge the kid like they would an adult. If he’s smart or dumb enough to committ a crime, they should be charged like anyone else no matter the age. I also agree parents should be able to tap that b**t(no abuse) as needed without interference from law enforcement.
Shaun Dawson
June 22, 2012 at 5:24 am
I find it ironic that Brewer was accused of being a snitch by the very boys that turned around and snitched on Bent at his trial. Did they make a deal with the authorities? Now who’s the snitch?
This whole snitching thing is nothing but misplaced loyalty. Wrong is wrong and there is no honor in protecting criminals.
moonhead
June 22, 2012 at 4:33 am
Bernice: Excuses, excuses, excuses. Instead of blaming the law, how about blaming scum like Russell Simmons, P Diddy, Jayz, Little Wayne,50 Cents,etc., these are the ones that occupy our children’s minds? This little animal deserves life in prison, and his parents should be sterilized, so that they can’t bring any more of their breed into this world. A lot of us have gone through the same liberal, lax society, without setting another human being on fire, or worst. What’s going to happen, when you run out of someone else to blame?
Peter D. Slaughter
June 22, 2012 at 4:32 am
I wonder do a vast % of black people really understand what is going on and what happened ?Let me explain this as simpled as possible.
A vast % of these black on black crimes,murders,robbies are the result of people being brainwashed,dumbed down and just made ignorant with the syndrome of thuggism. Notice,what you hear in a lot of cars that might roll pass you? A lot of ignorant dumbed down rap music,by watered down minstrel type rappers more than willing to say anything for 15 minutes of fame and some fake paper money with dead slave owners on it.Notice that all the so-called black urban radio stations are not even owned by black people no more.Either the black listeners were souled out by the former owners or just bought out by white owned companies. This whole snitching has become a twisted concept among black people in the community. Basically a vast % of black’s have been tricked and bambozzled to endorse criminal behavior.I have listened to some of the most ignorant discussions and arguments concerning this snitch non-sense.One thing for sure the kkk and the rest of racist hate groups love it when black’s are busy destroying and hating each other.
The only solution I see is a massive mental wake up call when it comes to all this ignorant type behavior being promoted to the black masses as so called entertaiment.
bernice
June 22, 2012 at 3:08 am
This child are products of the new laws that we are fed. Don’t spank your child so that we can kill him. A few children were badly hurt, So some idiot said let us stop parents from spanking their children. “when your parents hits you, call us we are the law. That means that when you give birth to a child, give them the keys to the house,and we can live in it as long as we behave our selves. We must obey the rules. You can only support them. Let them grow up and (I The law will take care of them. I will kill them for you.) When people come to this country, they make the rules for the schools. (take prey out of the schools because other religions don’t like your preys.) Allow anything on TV, because we have the right to dirty your childrens minds. Give them games to be their babysitter and the games must be (killer games.)Fill their heads before they know weather they are a boy or girl. AMERICA, WHAT KIND OF AMERICANS ARE YOU RAISING. You bunch of murderers. You just want to kill all of our children’s minds. Is this a alian war fare that we don’t know about? You took our children, you took our homes, you took our jobs. You took religion our of schools. America what are you doing????? What do you want?
IlluminatiJay
June 22, 2012 at 2:02 am
Evil stuff here.
Snitchin’ eh? All these monsters need to be turned in to answer for the havoc they spread. Just another example of how some of our youth are MORALLY BANKRUPT.
jan leegette
June 22, 2012 at 12:58 am
The eye witness that heard them calling him a snith and beating him…if maybe someone would have had b***s and stood up to them or even cakled 911 this burned victim mite not have suffered so badly…kids these days even here where i live work and kids run wild and when they do something and u tell parents take up for thete kids…dont always think yoir kids are right when domeone comes to i with a problem check it out…..and the qestion i have is after he was arrested for theft why was he out the next day i would have been picked up after school and grounded with an adult figure home wwith me till i was 22… Kifs get away with way to much these days…
wealthylady
June 21, 2012 at 5:04 pm
where are the parents?
Derrick
June 21, 2012 at 1:49 pm
These youngsters have gone crazy! Perhaps, if he would’ve looked the part (like he looks now), while he was in school, maybe he would’ve acted like he had some sense.
He looks intelligent and pitiful, while he’s in court, but while he committed his crime, he probably had on saggin’ jeans.
DON’T LOOK THE PART OF BEING INNOCENT NOW, START ACTING LIKE YOU GOT SOME SENSE!!!
NO PITY IN THE CITY FOR THIS JERK!