Are you as shocked and horrified at the events that happened to 15 year-old Josie Ratley as many of us are? Isn't it time this violence and bullying stopped?
Facebook has become one of the strongest social networking sites to help spread news, assist causes and bring people together with common interests. Recently "Pray for Josie Lou Ratley" group was created.
This group has been established to foster coordination, donations and positive actions on behalf of Josie and her Family. Please join them as they band together to right this terrible wrong!
Take the time to leave your good wishes, prayers and support.
Get Well Cards can be sent to:
Broward General Medical Center
Patient Josie Lou Ratley
1600 S. Andrews Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316
954-355-4400
The Ratley family does not have health insurance to pay for Josie's medical care. You can donate at any Wachovia Bank branch or mail your donations to:
Wachovia Bank
2989 PGA Boulevard
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410.
Please make checks payable to "The Josie Lou Ratley Fund".
Every little bit helps and every pray is appreciated.
Watch slideshow with new photo's from her recent Facebook Group page.
Comments
Thank you so much for your articles on Josie. I also wrote a few on this poor teen & her struggle for life. Thanks for the Facebook info. She desperately needs all the prayers we can send her way.
...praying for her, her recovery, strength for her family, the medical staff's healing hands, financial support, and our sick, sick, sick, society.
I just heard about this and it sure angers me to know things like this happen what did she do that was this bad.I pray for her that gods want are what we acpect.and that this harrasment ends amen.
She Will Be In Our Prayers
An aspiring artist? Well it sure looks like she could use a HAND.
It would of been nicer if she didn't trace those images.
I am keeping Josie and her family in my prayers. I am so sorry that she was placed in this situation by such a horrific criminal act. I pray for her complete recovery and that she will find justice in our judicial system (and the boy that did this will spend the rest of his life behind bars).
to Bill & Billy's comments....Let's pray that something like what happenned to Josie never happens to you or any of your loved ones. By your insensitive remarks, we an easliy tell that you may be much like the boy that did this terrible act.
I have a problem with people portraying her as an innocent victim. I never had a brother, but I can only imagine what someone who has a sibling who committed suicide is going through emotionally. To send text messages on that subject negatively is crossing a line... I'm sure what Josie did to the guy belongs in the category of Cyber Bullying.
Now I'm not saying Josie deserved the beating, but to say she's an innocent victim in this situation is a definite error. Both of these people are in the wrong and have crossed lines that I believe are horrendous.
Hopefully this will teach her not to lie about her father being dead, and then tell people to "visit your dead brother." Yes, he shouldn't have beat her, but being told about your own brother that you saw hang before you in such a foul manner was uncalled for. If you look at the texts, it all started with her getting in his and her friend's business about their relationship, that had NOTHING to do with Josie. I don't blame the boy for getting angry one bit, he had every right to, but she didn't deserve to get brought to near death.
Kids, especially these days, need to get humbled down, or else things like this will only keep happening.
If you can't take it, don't dish it out. She sounds like a bully, some of her photos make her look like a real bitch and if the situation were reversed and he had said the remark about her dead relative and she'd beat the hell out of him no one would be saying a thing.
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