MikeyT Posted 27 June 2008 Posted 27 June 2008 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10...orised-her.html A tale of two teenagers: Terrified OAP contrasts her life of hardship with the 14-year-old hoodie who terrorised her These two photographs of very different 14-year-old girls are held up as a stark illustration of the moral decline in the behaviour of Britain's young women. The sepia picture taken in 1939, shows smartly dressed teenager Maisie Jones smiling bravely at the camera at a time when she is forced to work whilst her family were fighting for their country against Nazi Germany. The second, 69 years on, is a sullen police mugshot of foul mouthed hoodie Sinead Duffy - taken this last month after she waged a vicious two year campaign of terror against Maisie, now 83, and other pensioners in their neighbourhood. Victim and attacker Sinead Duffy, 14, and the target of her hatred, Maisie Jones, pictured during the Second World War when she was the same age Great grandmother Maisie was beaten, spat at and threatened with garden shears as she tried to stand up to layabout Duffy and her gang of hoodie thugs who had been drinking cheap cider. As Duffy was named and shamed by a judge under the terms of an anti social behaviour order, widow Maisie compared the pictures of herself and her tormentor and condemned the scourge of violent teenage girls blighting the country. Recent Home Office figures shows that girls between 10 and 17 committed 59,236 crimes last year, up 25% from 47,358 in 2004. "This girl's behaviour is a disgrace," said the retired school dinner lady whose husband Thomas, a chauffeur died 19 years ago aged in his 60s. "I just don't understand why so many young girls these days have to behave like her. "Girls of 14 and their families today are so much better off than they were when I was 14 years old - yet some of these youngsters now have no respect for their elders. "What I really can't understand now is why they are out so late? Hate camapign Terrorised: Maisie was subjected to a two year hate campaign by yobs led by Sinead Duffy "Where is the parental control? But no doubt those parents are probably in the pub. I love kids, I have four children thirteen grandchildren and 30 great grandchildren. "But we wouldn't dream of behaving like that girl when we were her age. At 14 I had to go to work and be industrious because the country was at war. "Yet all this girl seems to want to do is hang around do nothing and make everyone's lives a misery. It's a very sad state of affairs" Blonde Duffy who lives with her mother Julie, 44, and older sister Stacie, 19, was hauled into court after bringing misery to elderly neighbours on their estate in Higher Blackley, Manchester. Council bosses complied a dossier of shame starting in October last year which told how Duffy led a gang of teenagers which regularly loitered outside the homes of the pensioners. They began by smoking outside, shouting abuse, making loud noises, tapping on their windows and playing knock and run by ringing their doorbells before fleeing down side alleys. The frail old folk - who lived in sheltered accommodation just 200 yards from Duffy's council terrace - were said to be "extremely, frightened intimidated and imprisoned in their own home. " But when Maisie asked the yobs to move on after they started kicking footballs against her home, the behaviour worsened with Duffy hurling abuse and storming up to the old lady and hitting her in the back with a stick. Duffy and her gang would also invade Maisie's garden taunting and jeering her and they would jostle in the street. Duffy also smashed a pensioner's window with her fist as the victim cowered inside. The teenagers would also terrorise the elderly by peering through their windows kicking wood chippings over them and climbing scaffolding when it was erected at their homes. They also ran through their gardens and up and down side alleys whilst shouting abuse. One night Maisie saw Duffy and a pal invade her garden take a pair of garden shears from her bed and open and close them towards her in a menacing manner. The girl yob also threatened to kill the OAP after forcing open and damaging her garage doors before pelting her with a bottle. When Maise pleaded with them to stop Duffy spat on her lawn and put her fists up to fight her saying: "F..k off in your house you stupid cow." Inquiries revealed Duffy also vandalised TV aerials belonging to other pensioners in the area, as well as setting fire to a communal bin. Speaking at her home Maisie, who has lived there for 55 years, said: "It's been going on for nearly two years but it came to a crunch when I came back from hospital in the afternoon and there were about 20 of them - aged from around 11 to 18 years old sat around the shared pathway I have with next door. "And when I tried to speak to them I just got horrible and foul language back at me. They started knocking on the door and ringing my door bell and this went on till about 1am some nights but it could be even later. "I had to start taking the batteries out of my bell so I could try and go to sleep and to ignore it but I was always scared and couldn't sleep. "I think it will take me years to get back to how I used to be again. At weekends they were all there outside my house till all hours. "They spat at my windows and knocked on them at night and smashed my side window through." Maisie also claims she was attacked by the yobs, who punched her in the back and stomach. "I've lived here for 55 years and never had any trouble with anyone. It used to be lovely, all the children knew me - I used to go out and give them sweets and they all played with my dog." One elderly neighbour, who was to frightened to be named said: "For a young girl Sinead Duffy scares the death out of you. She does all sorts. "She has thrown bricks at the windows before as well - for a 14-year-old girl it's really unbelievable." At Manchester magistrates court Dufy admitted harassment, assault and public order offences. District Judge Duncan Birrell issued her with a two year ASBO banning her from behaving anti socially throughout Manchester. The teenager's parents Julie and John Duffy were also given 12 month parenting orders demanding that they make their wayward daughter behave. Cant believe what this country is turning into today!
purpleronnie Posted 27 June 2008 Posted 27 June 2008 Go back 200 years and see what england was like then. You'll have a different opinion.
Moreton Posted 27 June 2008 Posted 27 June 2008 Those bleeding hoodies, there are making all us youths look like anti-social pratts
potter3 Posted 27 June 2008 Posted 27 June 2008 Go back 200 years and see what england was like then. You'll have a different opinion. What?
MikeyT Posted 27 June 2008 Author Posted 27 June 2008 It was 100 times worse than today. Almost sounds like you are condonding the behaviour. Im sure you arent, but doesnt it sicken you?
potter3 Posted 27 June 2008 Posted 27 June 2008 It was 100 times worse than today. What was? The behaviour of youths, general society or what?
Flynny Posted 27 June 2008 Posted 27 June 2008 The only behavior that sickens me is the Daily Mail convincing its readers that the whole country's going down the pan by finding one ridiculously uncommon story, exaggerating it for all its worth and letting the reader do the extrapolating as far as society as a whole goes. Georgian period was certainly much much worse than today.
purpleronnie Posted 27 June 2008 Posted 27 June 2008 What was? The behaviour of youths, general society or what? Both. I certainly dont condone it, but all this 'the countries had it' its just complete rubbish.
MikeyT Posted 27 June 2008 Author Posted 27 June 2008 Both.I certainly dont condone it, but all this 'the countries had it' its just complete rubbish. Not in my opinion. And you wont sway me from that!
Guest Posted 27 June 2008 Posted 27 June 2008 Go back 200 years and see what england was like then. You'll have a different opinion. It was 100 times worse than today. Blimey, you must tell me all about it!!
Daggers Posted 27 June 2008 Posted 27 June 2008 So, if it was 100 times worse 200 years ago does that mean 400 years ago it was 200 times worse or just 50 times worse? If it's the former then it must have been really ****ed up here around the Roman invasion, I'm surprised they stayed around.
Lovejoy Posted 27 June 2008 Posted 27 June 2008 The problem is most of us "youth of today" are genuinely trying to make a decent name for ourselves. But there are a minute amount of people like this who to be quite frank are complete scum who give the whole generation an impression of all of us being complete tosspots.
purpleronnie Posted 28 June 2008 Posted 28 June 2008 People go on about how bad the youth are every generation, most people dont realise UK has lower reported crime rates than other european countires like sweden, one of the lowest murder rates in europe, much lower unemployment etc etc.. i just think we assume its worse in britain than everywhere else, thats garbage. Yes there are problems, there ill always be problems, but there are a lot of postive things that living in britain has, I've lived in other european countries, believe me britain aint bad at all.
Webbo Posted 28 June 2008 Posted 28 June 2008 There were certainly rough kids about 25 years ago when I was a teenager, the only difference is that the violence seems to have gone up a notch.
AmericanScott Posted 28 June 2008 Posted 28 June 2008 If my nan called me up and told me some rude-tings were terrorising her, I'd be at her's right away and say to the kids "come on then, terrorise me and watch what happens you little [insert bad language here]" It's just kids who get bullied themselves and feel they have to prey on weaker victims such as the elderly. One day, they'll mess with someone who served 20 years in the navy and can break your body in one shot.
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