The family of a St. Louis teen who was seen on video bashing another girl’s head into the pavement during a fight earlier this month is now asking for financial support for their emotional and legal troubles.
The 15-year-old black girl, identified online as Maurnice DeClue, has been jailed on assault charges while 16-year-old Kaylee Gain, the victim who can be seen on camera seizing on the pavement after her attacker slammed her head into the asphalt multiple times, still lies in a hospital bed in a coma. Gain’s family has publicly stated the teen suffered brain damage including brain bleeding and frontal lobe injuries, but that doctors won’t know the extent of the trauma until she wakes up - if she wakes up.
But DeClue's family says the whole story is being twisted to paint their daughter in a bad light, despite video showing her straddling Gain and repeatedly bashing the back of her head into the street. They’re now asking the public for $150,000 for her legal bills, and have launched a petition on change.org asking Chief Juvenile Officer Rick Gaines of the 21st Circuit Court to charge her as a juvenile, not as an adult.
The family claims DeClue is an honor-roll student who speaks four languages and is in the school orchestra and volleyball team - though what that has to do with the fact that she was filmed repeatedly smashing someone’s head into the ground, I’m not sure. The family also claims she was simply “defending herself from harassment and bullying,” saying that’s what lead to the fight in the first place.
“Prior to an incident on March 8th where she was seen defending herself from harassment and bullying, she had never been in trouble,” it read. “Her work as a scholar was tainted by the bullying she had to endure at school.”
“It is unjust that such an accomplished young woman should be charged as an adult for assault without considering all the facts of the case that led to the incident where harm occurred,” the petition continued.
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The petition then asked the court to consider “most importantly her victimhood as a bullied student who was merely defending herself under intense and flight vs fight circumstances.”
“The focus should be to pray for the healing and reconciliation of both parties, as this truly was a teenage fight that should’ve never happened to begin with, but did and spun completely out of control,” the relatives of the accused argued.
The family’s attempt to set up a GoFundMe was swiftly taken down by the site, but only after it had managed to raise a few thousand toward the assailant’s defense.
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