GUILTY FL - Wayne Treacy for savage beating of 15yo girl, Deerfield Beach, 17 March 2010

[Salem]

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[tlcya]

I hope Mrs Ratley's new attorney can structure it so that future donations go into a trust which can be accessed for WHATEVER is needed to give Josie the best care, be it home improvements to make it more ADA compliant or additional physical therapy, or whatever is needed to make Josie's recovery possible. I feel so badly for Mrs. Ratley dealing with stupid roadblocks being thrown in her way. I hope and pray that the press stays interested in Josie's case so that donations can continue to come in.

I am really angry that the previous lawyers structured the account for donations the way they did. VERY shortsighted IMOO.

 

[Wise Old Owl]

Ok - here's the one we've been waiting for.

The text message that provoked Wayne Treacy: 'Go visit ur dead brother'

By Rafael A. Olmeda, Sun Sentinel

10:46 a.m. EDT, May 21, 2010

FORT LAUDERDALE
The text message that provoked the beating of Josie Lou Ratley was a cold brushoff meant to cut short an unpleasant exchange, with a reference to Wayne Treacy's brother that sent him into a rage he later said he could not control.

"Stop txtn mi phone rapest n if u dont care jus stop tryin me k," said the message that went from Ratley's phone to Treacy's Gmail account at 11:52 a.m. on March 17. "N jus go visit ur dead brother."

Treacy's response is immediate and vicious. In all capital letters, he writes: "Ur f-ing dead! I swear to God I'm gonna kill you. I'll f-ing find you! Your is cold, dead meat m-f-!"

It was not the first threat he made during the exchange, and prosecutors say it was not an empty one, though Ratley didn't seem to realize it.

"K, u make me giggle," she writes. Then, responding to the yet another threat, she indicates she brought up Treacy's brother, who committed suicide last October, as payback for a comment Treacy made earlier about her father.

"Like u did mi dad thing," she wrote. "Oh such a hipacrit."

Treacy responds: "…u knowingly took a shot at my deceased brother. Today, you die, ."


**more at link**

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/br...-ratley-text-message-20100521,0,2351235.story

So evidently Treacy took a shot at Josie about her father. AND we now see that the text message wasn't all that bad - JUST LIKE TREACY SAID!!!

I am truly glad this kid is off the streets. He would have killed someone - it was just a matter of time.

 

[reen]

Thanks for the missing piece of the puzzle. Yes, teens can be so mean and both were, but dang. He really was a bomb waiting to go off to have a reaction like that.

I do hope, though, that releasing this won't compromise the case against him.

 

[elle1919]

I am just shocked. Yes , this guy was a bomb waiting for detonation.

 

[kbl8201]

go visit your dead brother? seriously?

he needs to be locked up for good

 

[BeanE]

Transcript of Treacy-Ratley text exchange
Reported by: Sun-Sentinel
Last Update: 5/21 8:26 pm

This article contains the full transcript of the text exchange.

http://www.wptv.com/content/news/to...ley-text-exchange/HU_bbmJaok6KBVanY11vFQ.cspx

 

[legallee]

wow that text was not enough to cause that much rage. This punk has issues.

 

[SkewedView]

With all of those threats right off the bat, it seems like he was ready to do something nasty right from the start - more like he was already pi$$ed off with the world that day and was just looking for a target for his rage, IMO (Either that or it was the rapist accusations that got him riled up, in which case I would have to wonder why he was so sensitive about that, beyond what one would normally expect of course)

 

[Wise Old Owl]

yea I kinda think it was the "rapist" comments that set him off. Don't matter - this kid is more than a punk.

I've been looking for a pic of his brother. They have shown him on the local news down here - I think it was a mug shot. I really wish you could see this "brother" - he really wasn't the upstanding pillar of society ya know?

I'll keep looking.

 

[tlcya]

Whatever happened to the old stand-by "sticks and stones . . . "?

So freekin senseless. And Treacy was right, it really wasn't that big a deal. Particularly since he sort of started the exchange heading in that direction by commenting on her dad. Jeez, it's just so sad, Josie may be permanently damaged, over a series of texts. This young man was, as other posters have said, a bomb, just waiting for something to light the fuse.

 

[daisy7]

Wayne Treacy was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder when he lashed out at Josie Lou Ratley in an assault that almost claimed the young girl's life, a court-appointed psychologist said Monday.

Appearing on NBC's Today show, psychologist Michael Brannon described Treacy, 15, as deeply troubled and remorseful about what he admits he did to Ratley, 15, a Deerfield Beach Middle School student, on March 17.

"He's a very sad kid," Brannon said.

He said Treacy's disorder stemmed from the suicide of his 30-year-old brother in October.

(snip)

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/c...ct-suffered-post-traumatic-stress-705443.html

 

[raeann]

The defense psychologist better come up with a better explanation than PSD over his brother, because WT threatened to kill JR a full 30 minutes BEFORE any comment was ever made about the brother.

and FWIW.....where is the school's responsibility in allowing them to be constantly texting during school? At my kids high school, any student caught touching a phone during the school day receives an automatic detention and the phone is confiscated and not returned until the end of the next school day after the detention has been served. For one student a faculty member told me about, the phone was taken on the Friday morning before spring break. He was without his phone throughout the week of spring break and until after school the following Monday when he had served his detention.
There was no school work or learning or attention being paid to teachers during that lengthy time period of the texting exchange by EITHER student.

jmoo

 

[tlcya]

PTSD??? Really? REALLY!?! This pizzes me off to no end. What that little sh*t suffers from is a lack off self control and a temper tantrum.

Now our Josie girl, she most certainly may end up with a pretty serious case of PTSD, and who could question it, thanks to that , but Treacy?!?! Really?

I am sorry, but that just takes the cake, IMO.

Oh poor young man, he is sucha sad young man, blah blah blah. I am so sick of these defenses. What ever happened to personal accountability?!?!?

 

[raeann]

PTSD??? Really? REALLY!?! This pizzes me off to no end. What that little sh*t suffers from is a lack off self control and a temper tantrum.

Now our Josie girl, she most certainly may end up with a pretty serious case of PTSD, and who could question it, thanks to that , but Treacy?!?! Really?

I am sorry, but that just takes the cake, IMO.

Oh poor young man, he is sucha sad young man, blah blah blah. I am so sick of these defenses. What ever happened to personal accountability?!?!?

LOL......so how do you really feel about this kid? :waitasec:

 

[tlcya]

lol, sorry for the rant. I can sympathize and empathize with any young person who has had tough breaks and tragedies in life. But WE ALL have tragedy, WE ALL suffer loss, WE ALL have our crosses to bear.

And yet, WE ALL don't run around beating and attempting to kill someone over a "not that bad" comment made by another.

Sick to death of excuses. We are a society of sydromes and disorders and excuses. If I do something wrong, I did something wrong. My mom didn't make me do it. My dog didn't make me do it, my childhood didn't make me do it, glutten didn't make me do it, aliens didn't make me do it. I just for once want to see someone stand up and say "I DID IT. IT WAS WRONG, AND I DID IT. NO ONE BUT ME IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MY HORRIBLE ACTIONS. I WILL TAKE MY LUMPS BECAUSE IT IS MY FAULT."

 

[tlcya]

Just once.

just sayin.

okay, rant over now. lol.

 

[MCDRAW]

The defense psychologist better come up with a better explanation than PSD over his brother, because WT threatened to kill JR a full 30 minutes BEFORE any comment was ever made about the brother.

and FWIW.....where is the school's responsibility in allowing them to be constantly texting during school? At my kids high school, any student caught touching a phone during the school day receives an automatic detention and the phone is confiscated and not returned until the end of the next school day after the detention has been served. For one student a faculty member told me about, the phone was taken on the Friday morning before spring break. He was without his phone throughout the week of spring break and until after school the following Monday when he had served his detention.
There was no school work or learning or attention being paid to teachers during that lengthy time period of the texting exchange by EITHER student.

jmoo

At my children's school they have rules against it. If caught the phone is confiscated and kept for so many weeks then the parent has to go get it. Kids still text.

 

[tlcya]

I have already decided when I do get my daughter a cel phone it will be one of those trac phones with no internet, no text, no photograph capability. I will also have the phone structured so that it can only call a select few "emergency" numbers. Cel phone misuse by minors is causing a lot of issues in our society today. From texting while driving or at school or other inapproriate venues to "sexting", bullying, etc.

Parents argue that they are giving their teens cel phones to better "keep tabs" on them and then don't have the first clue what the teens are doing with them. How is that "keeping tabs" on them?

Not for my kids thank you.

 

[raeann]

I have already decided when I do get my daughter a cel phone it will be one of those trac phones with no internet, no text, no photograph capability. I will also have the phone structured so that it can only call a select few "emergency" numbers. Cel phone misuse by minors is causing a lot of issues in our society today. From texting while driving or at school or other inapproriate venues to "sexting", bullying, etc.

Parents argue that they are giving their teens cel phones to better "keep tabs" on them and then don't have the first clue what the teens are doing with them. How is that "keeping tabs" on them?

Not for my kids thank you.

Sorry, this post is a bit O/T

As a mom of three who all have reached and passed the cell phone age, we have developed one absolutely vital need for use of texting. When my kids are "out and about" they are required to check in with me on a regular basis, so that I know where they are and what they are doing. They do this by a phone call when they can, but in situations where it is too loud (sports event, concert, school dance, etc.), or too quiet (movie, meeting, etc.), or even where they might be embarrassed by having to call mom----texting is a perfect way to check in without causing any problems. Often, even when we attend the same sports event and they sit with the student section and I am with friends, a call may not go through due to the volume of people using phones in the area. A text nearly always comes through even in a crowded football stadium.

jmoo