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Video of the attack shows the 18-year-old victim cowering in a corner of a room, tied up with his mouth bound in plastic. His eyes exude fear as his attackers get ready for their next act.

One assailant slashes his sweatshirt with a knife. The young woman streaming the abuse on Facebook Live repeatedly turns the camera back to herself.

An attacker then takes a knife to the victim's head, carving a patch off his scalp.
For the next 25 minutes, the abuse continues for the world to see. The victim is repeatedly kicked and punched, but his screams are apparently ignored.

The young woman broadcasting the attack appears dismayed that she's not getting more attention online.
"Y'all not even commenting on my s***," she tells a friend during the live stream.

Burning Petard wrote:Southern trees bear strange fruit. Phillip Wylie stated long ago that America will be the land of equality when Americans regularly lynch white people. Perhaps I shall live to see it.

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Chicago torture video: No bail for 4 suspects

(CNN)Four young people accused of torturing a Chicago special-needs teen and broadcasting the incident on Facebook Live were ordered held without bail Friday afternoon.

The suspects face hate crime, kidnapping, unlawful restraint and battery charges in their alleged role in the attack.

"I'm wondering where was the sense of decency that each of you should have had?" Cook County Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil asked the suspects. "When the mom reached out asking about his child ... Where was it? I don't see it."

The decision to deny them bail brought cheers in the courtroom.

After the hearing, Assistant State's Attorney Erin Antonetti told reporters the 18-year-old victim suffers from schizophrenia and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. He was friends with one of the suspects, Jordan Hill, and was voluntarily spending time with him, starting on New Year's Eve, she said.

The attacks started in the back of a stolen van after Hill apparently became angry because the victim's mother called and asked about her son's location, Antonetti said.

Hill took the teen to a third-floor apartment in Chicago, where he was bound and gagged, beaten over several days by the two male and two female suspects and forced to drink toilet water, with some of the attacks broadcast on Facebook Live, she said.

"During the course of the attack, defendant Hill communicated with the victim's mother and demanded $300 ransom in exchange for getting her son back," Antonetti said.

The youth finally escaped Tuesday when police came to the apartment because the suspects argued with second-floor residents who'd complained about the noise, she said. The victim was treated at a hospital and released.

Jordan Hill, 18; Tesfaye Cooper; 18; Brittany Covington, 18; and Tanishia Covington, 24, have each been charged with a hate crime, felony aggravated kidnapping, aggravated unlawful restraint and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

Hill, Cooper and Brittany Covington also face charges of residential burglary. Hill faces an additional charge of possession of a stolen motor vehicle.

Public defenders Wendy Fawcettt and Megan Tomlinson provided personal details about the defendants, saying Tanishia Covington has two children and Brittany Covington worked as a cashier and attended church.

Hill lives with his grandmother and six siblings, ages 14 to 20, and played football in high school, the public defenders said. He'd spent time in jail in for prior convictions, the defenders said.

Cooper lives with his mother and six siblings, has a paralyzed brother and had been arrested previously for possession of a controlled substance, the public defenders said.

Lord Jim wrote:... I think the judge really asked the right question; "where was the sense of decency that each of you should have had?"

One of the torturers has two children of her own. Another has a disabled brother. And yet not one ounce of empathy or humanity between the four of them...

RayThom wrote:
The year ended with at least 780 homicides (762 by the Chicago Police method of counting) in Chicago, according to Chicago Sun-Times records.

There were 238 reported murder victims in Australia during 2014, compared to 245 in 2013.

Gob wrote:
There were 238 reported murder victims in Australia during 2014, compared to 245 in 2013.

Chicago’s homicide rate over the last five years was 16.4 per 100,000

In Australia during 2014 the murder rate fell to a five year low of 1.0 victim per 100,000 persons