Girls held hostage for egging house

[Hum]

An egg-throwing prank spiralled out of control for a group of Flaxmere schoolgirls who were caught, kidnapped and assaulted by the residents of a home they egged last July.

Malia Asoepesio Mafi, 50, and Lupe Pailate, 26, appeared at the Napier District Court yesterday and were sentenced to community work and community detention after admitting charges of kidnapping and assault on a child.

The two were part of a trio of women who over-reacted on July 30, 2011, when a group of five girls threw two eggs at a ranch slider then fled.

Angry and concerned for her fragile mother, who had recently suffered a heart attack, Mafi and her two daughters Lupe Pailate and Angelica Pailate got in their car to go looking for the perpetrators.

While driving they came across the group and grabbed a 12-year-old girl and, while the rest fled, manhandled her into the car where they threatened and slapped her in the face. She was also punched and kicked.

They took off with her still in the vehicle and came across two more of the girls involved. Again Lupe and Angelica Pailate got out, this time a second 12-year-old and a 11-year-old were dragged by their hair into the car.

One of them was also kneed in the head.

After this the trio then stopped at the Flaxmere Community Policing Station to hand the girls over.

The station was empty, so they kept them captive, taking them back to their home for about half an hour.

From there Mafi called the police and was told they could not keep the girls and to release them.

The pair were sentenced to community detention for three months and 130 hours community work. Mafi would also be under supervision for six months.

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[Blaze_Zewi]

"The station was empty" Didn't know some police station have closing hours.

[Hum]

Maybe the girls shant be throwing eggs again.

[theyarecomingforyou]

They weren't held hostage - they were detained. They were taken to the police station and the police were informed about the entire situation, so there was no intent to hold them hostage. Common sense is that people who commit a crime can and should be detained until the police arrive. If a mistake occurs then you can seek to prosecute the detainers but there is no implication that this was the case.

I appreciate that it's a legally nuanced issue but the girls committed a crime. While I'm certainly not advocating people taking justice into their own hands this was simply a case of detaining the people responsible, people who would not have been caught up in this matter if they had behaved like decent human beings. Society should not punish the victims of crime when there was no intent of malice.

[Hum]

I think the neighbors should be allowed to egg the girls.

[Noir Angel]

They weren't held hostage - they were detained. They were taken to the police station and the police were informed about the entire situation, so there was no intent to hold them hostage. Common sense is that people who commit a crime can and should be detained until the police arrive. If a mistake occurs then you can seek to prosecute the detainers but there is no implication that this was the case.

I appreciate that it's a legally nuanced issue but the girls committed a crime. While I'm certainly not advocating people taking justice into their own hands this was simply a case of detaining the people responsible, people who would not have been caught up in this matter if they had behaved like decent human beings. Society should not punish the victims of crime when there was no intent of malice.

I don't think i'd call a punch or slap to the face 'no malice'

[Growled Member]

I think someone over reacted here and it wasn't the kids.

[moloko]

"The station was empty" Didn't know some police station have closing hours.

small communities have only a few cops. Where my parents live there are only a handful of troopers and sometimes they all are out when there are several calls.

They weren't held hostage - they were detained. They were taken to the police station and the police were informed about the entire situation, so there was no intent to hold them hostage. Common sense is that people who commit a crime can and should be detained until the police arrive. If a mistake occurs then you can seek to prosecute the detainers but there is no implication that this was the case.

I appreciate that it's a legally nuanced issue but the girls committed a crime. While I'm certainly not advocating people taking justice into their own hands this was simply a case of detaining the people responsible, people who would not have been caught up in this matter if they had behaved like decent human beings. Society should not punish the victims of crime when there was no intent of malice.

An average person cannot detain a child , and the cops informed them as such. Even if you grab the kid on your property there is a good change the cops will tell you to let them go too. unless it was a real crime. Egging or tp'ing a house is not a serious crime. Its like jaywalking.

[Athlonite]

I held two young boys about 12/13 they'd been past my place 3 times in a week all at 1/1:30am and thrown eggs wasn't just my house either I caught the little buggars rang the cops and they came and took them away I told them if they moved I'd knee cap them with a baseball bat I had in my hand (the threat was all that was needed neither of them budged an inch) told the cops that too they both laughed then tore a strip off the arse of each of them and then took them home only one of the two showed up to clean the egg off my place the next morning and he apologized for doing it which was good of him they were just being young and dumb now they both go past my place and wave a say hi and neither have been in trouble with the law again.....

the point is if I let them get away with it the next thing would have been a broken window or worse vandalism because they'd get the idea it's ok to do it as there's no consequences

[Hum]

^ Surprised you didn't get charged. :laugh:

[jasondefaoite]

Something tells me they won't go egging a house again.