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Showing Original Post only (View all)Gay couple w/ 4 kids bullied in Arizona for months, kids threatened with gun [View all]
This is a fairly long article with some really upsetting information. Please, read the entire article.
http://www.examiner.com/article/gay-couple-w-4-kids-bullied-arizona-for-months-kids-threatened-with-gun
In the last 120 days the Bermea's family vehicles have been vandalized, with gay slurs scratched into them. Their property has been set on fire, and their home has been broken into -- again with slurs and profanity left behind. One of the children's rooms was vandalized, and they now are afraid to sleep there. Can you blame them? How would any child be able to sleep knowing that there are people outside your walls who want to do harm to you and your family? The trauma on the minds of these children is heartbreaking, as they will likely carry these moments terror with them for the rest of their lives. It is despicable, deplorable and truly tragic that these innocent children have learned at such an early age what it means to live in fear.
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Just recently over the weekend of June 30th two of the children were accosted by at least two men in a white SUV, one who had with a gun! According to the new Facebook group created to support the family it was reported that a man drove along side them and another got out of the vehicle and pointed a pistol at the defenseless, blameless children. The children then fled home, with both men giving chase. One on foot, and the other slowly following in their vehicle. Upon arriving they told their parents what happened, who again called the police. Again, no leads -- and no help.
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Gay couple w/ 4 kids bullied in Arizona for months, kids threatened with gun [View all]
Wait Wut
Jul 2012
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Arrested as violent predators. Where are the LEOs during this flagrant criminality?
freshwest
Jul 2012
#16
I lived in Gilbert for nearly a decade. It is a town dominated by Mormons. The elementary
AzDar
Jul 2012
#3
Not everybody can afford to live in San Francisco or Massachusetts. There aren't enough jobs.
yardwork
Jul 2012
#8
There are rumor mills talking about dissolving the USA. This is a form of ethnic cleansing.
freshwest
Jul 2012
#18
For those not familiar with AZ, Gilbert is in Maricopa County, a suburb of Phoenix.
rufus dog
Jul 2012
#23
So can you ascertain from the information provided what cops are doing about it?
lonestarnot
Jul 2012
#36
What does that have to do with anything... We have lots of smarm running around the Valley, most
lonestarnot
Jul 2012
#46
People read the lies foisted by Freepers and other right wing liars and they take action
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2012
#45