“I felt scared for her,” says teen in beating case.:
Cara Murphy recently had the charges dropped against her in the videotaped beating of Victoria Lindsay. Now she’s speaking out…
“I guess I’m sorry for all that happened,” Cara Murphy said during a news conference Friday night, apologizing for her invovlement in the videotaped beating of a Mulberry cheerleader that incited a media frenzy.
“I’m glad the charges got dropped though.”
I believe the second part but not the first.
Murphy says she never realized that what took place on videotape would turn into a national controversy. After apologizing to the victim, Victoria Lindsay, Murphy admitted she could have done more to stop the beating.
Murphy commented, “During the time I definitely can say I felt scared for her. Once I saw the video, I realized this was a bad thing that happened.”
Yet she didn’t realize it as it was going on? What difference should it being on video make?
I think the only thing she’s really sorry for is that she got caught. she won the lottery by having the charges dropped.
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@holly
It’s important to remember to look for empathy towards the victim. If an individual thinks beating a defenseless person is only wrong because they might get caught, what this means is that if there were no laws against murder, they’d be murdering defenseless people left and right with no sense of right and wrong.
Cara may not be a violent person, but her friends are, and if Cara is not naturally good at moral reasoning, she needs to have a different set of friends who are good at moral reasoning and who she can go to for advice on what is right and wrong.
People like to assume that everyone has roughly the same ability of moral reasoning, but moral reasoning is a lot like doing math in your head.
Some people are more capable of moral reasoning than others, and I’d say the people beating this girl are morally retarded. Any friend you have who can beat on a defenseless person, is not a friend to anyone.
@Felicia, while you may call them animals, it does not automatically make them bad. Humans are all animals, and what seperates a good human from a bad human in the training. These girls had poor training from their parents, therefore society has to train them.
The best way to train any animal is through reward and punishment. Prison is the punishment we give. What are our rewards?
The reason this happens is because we don’t reward good behavior and we merely punish bad behavior. What if someone did stand up and protect Victoria? Nobody would have rewarded them, society might interview them from a day or two and then it would be all over.
Perhaps as a society we should set up a reward system for people who stand up to stop bullying.
Greg N….I completely agree with you…but wrong is still wrong…and as for a reward system for stopping bullying there is one it is called freedom. Also you should not do good things and expect rewards because that just makes them a job. A good deed is something you do from your heart with no anticipation of gaining anything. Lastly, I blame her church. She supposedly goes to church…what the hell are they teaching her?
Felica being good is the hardest most difficult job for any human, so why not pay for it? It’s not like it’s easy to do the right thing.
After watching the video of cara murphy I have to say I was a little disturbed…
On one note I will have to argue…some are saying that Cara said she was scared that she might be beaten if she stood up for Tori….In Cara’s own words she said she did not feel threatened or did not feel she would be beaten if she was to try and stick up for Tori?? To me that says she did not have any intentions of stoppin the assaults. In my opinion is just as guilty. Another concern is the lack of a heartfelt concern for Tori and only a sense of relief for herself leads me to believe Cara is still not soo concerned with Tori. Basically, she is saying Next time she will have to be more careful.
1 question…If there was some concern for Tori…why not leave the house when the plan was being made to attack Tori?? Even if they said they were only going to confront with words…It was stil 6 girls to 1. That by itself should have been enough to say “I’m outta here…I want no part of this….it does not concern me” But yet she decided to stick around for a ass kickin.
I was once 16 and do know the loyalties of friendship…however, if a group of my peers were to attack 1 person…I would have thought of them as cowards and stood up for the 1 person…friend or not. Fortunately for me I didn’t have those types of friends.
So before anyone starts attacking my thoughts…know that I have based my opinions solely on the attack footage and cara’s interview and her words.
And these are my opinions.
cara you’re a dickweed; so are all of your other friends involved. you and the other two guys deserve to be in jail. bitch!
no doubt- especially the two guys, well they’re not guys really, but rather shitheads who will never be real men. I can’t believe they got off. They fully had to know something really horrible was going on-
hopefully they’ll get a good dose of carma. I really hope the others do some serious time. they need to be away from society for a good… long… time.
i am sorry for the victim. as for her attackers……….. and the ones who filmed are cowards. if the girl who lured the little girl over was truly any friend at all to her she would have helped her. There is way to much violence in the younger generation these days. but to watch this video i wonder if these girls realise just how badly they looked and as for the girl who says “she guesses she is sorry” she is just as big as coward as they were. and one more thing were was the parents?