In this article about 10 of the worst "bystander effect" examples, a 12-year old girl was abducted and murdered by 4 teenage girls. The four girls were into wicca, lesbianism, witchcraft, gothic culture, etc. Essentially the teenage goth routine, but on a more dramatized scale. They claim to have kidnapped the 12 year old girl because one of the teenage girls claims she "stole her friend."
What horrified me most while reading the article is how far they all went. From the beginning, it seems clear (in the article) that not all of the girls involved were ready to actually kill her, or even wanted to in the first place.
It's a strange combination of bystander effect and peer pressure. The girls claim that they all thought it would stop at some point, but by the 6th hour of abduction the 12 year old had been stabbed, beaten, and strangled several times. Finally, she was burned. By this point (many hours after having kidnapped her and dragging her around in the trunk of a car), one of the girls actually told another girl, in an attempt to get her to call the police. The girl was afraid, and since others knew about it too she didn't want to be the one who got involved and became an "accomplice." It took 2 days for the body to be found, and 6 girls knew in total, of which only 2 were the main "killers."
Crazy world we live in.
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