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TO GO WITH AFP STORY US-YOUTH-CRIME This handout videograb image courtesy of the Hamilton County Sheriff's department in Cincinnati, Ohio shows a suspect as she walks away. Police were searching January 7, 2010 for two adolescent girls suspected of robbing a bank in the northeastern state of Ohio.The girls, one believed to be between the ages of 14 and 16 and the other a couple of years younger, pulled off the unarmed heist January 5, 2010 at a bank in a suburb of Cincinnati. Police said the juvenile suspects, wearing hooded sweatshirts that partly concealed their faces, passed a note to a teller demanding money and left with an unspecified amount of cash, in a robbery recorded by the bank's video camera. While teenage bank robbers are unusual, robberies by young females are rarer still, officials said. AFP PHOTO/HAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT/HANDOUT/RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE (Photo credit should read HO/AFP/Getty Images)
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY US-YOUTH-CRIME This handout videograb image courtesy of the Hamilton County Sheriff's department in Cincinnati, Ohio shows a suspect as she walks away. Police were searching January 7, 2010 for two adolescent girls suspected of robbing a bank in the northeastern state of Ohio.The girls, one believed to be between the ages of 14 and 16 and the other a couple of years younger, pulled off the unarmed heist January 5, 2010 at a bank in a suburb of Cincinnati. Police said the juvenile suspects, wearing hooded sweatshirts that partly concealed their faces, passed a note to a teller demanding money and left with an unspecified amount of cash, in a robbery recorded by the bank's video camera. While teenage bank robbers are unusual, robberies by young females are rarer still, officials said. AFP PHOTO/HAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT/HANDOUT/RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE (Photo credit should read HO/AFP/Getty Images)
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People react by the scene of a crime where three teenagers were killed in Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010. Prosecutors say the two boys and a girl were shot to death in a hail of bullets directed at their vehicle outside a school. (AP Photo)
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Protesters have hung up a banner which reads "In Rememberance of Oury Jalloh" during a demonstration in the eastern German city of Dessau on January 7, 2010. Germany's federal appeals court ordered a re-trial of a policeman over the burning to death in custody of an asylum seeker from Sierra Leone in 2005. Ouri Jallow, also known as Oury Jalloh, died in January 2005 in Dessau police station south-west of Berlin after the mattress on the bed that he had been shackled to in a cell caught fire. AFP PHOTO DDP / JENS SCHLUETER GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read JENS SCHLUETER/AFP/Getty Images)
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(FILES) A file photo taken on October 13, 2003 shows a Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) child soldier walking through the market in Iga Barriere in the Ituri region. The trial of former Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga will resume on January 7, 2010, with two expert witnesses expected to be the first to testify. Lubanga, 48, has been charged with war crimes for using children under the age of 15 to fight for his militia during the five-year DR Congo civil war, which ended in 2003. AFP PHOTO/ SIMON MAINA (Photo credit should read SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Protesters hold a banner which reads "No one will be forgoten, Break the silence" as they take part in a demonstration in the eastern German city of Dessau on January 7, 2010. Germany's federal appeals court ordered a re-trial of a policeman over the burning to death in custody of an asylum seeker from Sierra Leone in 2005. Ouri Jallow, also known as Oury Jalloh, died in January 2005 in Dessau police station south-west of Berlin after the mattress on the bed that he had been shackled to in a cell caught fire. AFP PHOTO DDP / JENS SCHLUETER GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read JENS SCHLUETER/AFP/Getty Images)
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Mamadou Saliou Diallo, brother of Oury Jalloh, speaks with tv reporters at a demonstration in the eastern German city of Dessau on January 7, 2010. Germany's federal appeals court ordered a re-trial of a policeman over the burning to death in custody of an asylum seeker from Sierra Leone in 2005. Ouri Jallow, also known as Oury Jalloh, died in January 2005 in Dessau police station south-west of Berlin after the mattress on the bed that he had been shackled to in a cell caught fire. AFP PHOTO DDP / JENS SCHLUETER GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read JENS SCHLUETER/AFP/Getty Images)
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Mamadou Saliou Diallo, brother of Oury Jalloh, speaks with tv reporters at a demonstration in the eastern German city of Dessau on January 7, 2010. Germany's federal appeals court ordered a re-trial of a policeman over the burning to death in custody of an asylum seeker from Sierra Leone in 2005. Ouri Jallow, also known as Oury Jalloh, died in January 2005 in Dessau police station south-west of Berlin after the mattress on the bed that he had been shackled to in a cell caught fire. AFP PHOTO DDP / JENS SCHLUETER GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read JENS SCHLUETER/AFP/Getty Images)
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Mamadou Saliou Diallo, brother of Oury Jalloh, speaks with tv reporters at a demonstration in the eastern German city of Dessau on January 7, 2010. Germany's federal appeals court ordered a re-trial of a policeman over the burning to death in custody of an asylum seeker from Sierra Leone in 2005. Ouri Jallow, also known as Oury Jalloh, died in January 2005 in Dessau police station south-west of Berlin after the mattress on the bed that he had been shackled to in a cell caught fire. AFP PHOTO DDP / JENS SCHLUETER GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read JENS SCHLUETER/AFP/Getty Images)
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Protesters hold a placard which reads "Oury Jalloh, that was murder" as they take part in a demonstration in the eastern German city of Dessau on January 7, 2010. Germany's federal appeals court ordered a re-trial of a policeman over the burning to death in custody of an asylum seeker from Sierra Leone in 2005. Ouri Jallow, also known as Oury Jalloh, died in January 2005 in Dessau police station south-west of Berlin after the mattress on the bed that he had been shackled to in a cell caught fire. AFP PHOTO DDP / JENS SCHLUETER GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read JENS SCHLUETER/AFP/Getty Images)
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Protesters hold a banner which reads "Racist Violence" as they take part in a demonstration in the eastern German city of Dessau on January 7, 2010. Germany's federal appeals court ordered a re-trial of a policeman over the burning to death in custody of an asylum seeker from Sierra Leone in 2005. Ouri Jallow, also known as Oury Jalloh, died in January 2005 in Dessau police station south-west of Berlin after the mattress on the bed that he had been shackled to in a cell caught fire. AFP PHOTO DDP / JENS SCHLUETER GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read JENS SCHLUETER/AFP/Getty Images)
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By: DDD on 1/08/2010 3:36PM
Check the relationship between these girls and the teller!!!
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By: Helen Thomas on 1/09/2010 1:22PM
Evelyn:
I can hear the other hens clucking. The problem with adults today is fear. So? Somewhere we have to begin to fight back at this outrageous activity. I couldn't wait to become an adult. Most adults now want to be teenagers. When I was coming up, any right thinking/minded adult had the capacity and the nod from parents to discipline out of control children.
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By: Jan on 1/09/2010 10:09PM
Queen Latifah and Vivica Fox is who these two girls believe they are... Set It Off?... the movie? the parents of these kids had these girls sit in front of the television to watch Set It Off too many times and now the girls are brainwashed by it? or maybe Before we make any judgments on these girls, let us first find out the details. Were these girls threatened by someone if they didnt rob the bank their parents,siblings might get hurt? We just dont know so before anyone start condemning these girls to a life of prison, let's wait to find out the REAL TRUTH OKAY YA'LL?????
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By: black on 1/11/2010 7:30PM
whites always tell black to forget the past,but they always bring up the past.dont for get your people was terrorist right here in america,plus george bush was doing business with the family of the man that surpose to be behind the 9/11 bombing
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By: Patricia Elder on 1/11/2010 7:47PM
It's pretty scarie when the police can't find two kids I fell sorry for me and I live in Ohio.
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By: MsIknowit on 1/11/2010 9:21PM
What i think is that its a setup. I live in Cincinnati and if 2 black s would have robbed a bank in this area they would be sitting in 20/20 juvie hall right now. I think the TELLER need to look at the time shes going to get once this is over. This chick know who rob this bank im sure she have something to do with it ALL. She know who did this im sure Trust Me on this.
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By: d on 1/11/2010 9:21PM
I think the city, gov't and state should allow parents to punish their children when they do wrong
since you can't do that anymore, this is 1 of the results that can happen. Some teenagers do not respect parents or anything that belongs to someone else, some of them do it because they can and think that since they are young they already no that they will not deal with them harshly.
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