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Myungshin Kim
Eng201B
Professor Sabir
2/February/2012

The summary of Yummy

The article starts with reporter describing how hard it was researched from the though streets where crimes occurred, and from this sense, we can assume how hard living life in the hoods where gangs rule. In the article the 11-year old boy named Robert Sandifer, called Yummy by friends because of his love of sweet things, was born from one of Chicago’s’ broken families. His mother had born first child at her age 15(Robert was third) and dropped out from high school when she was in 10th grade. Then she was arrested 47 times at age 29 from drug and prostitution. His father was in jail for drug and weapon charges. At his infant age, the Robert was bitten and whipped by electrical cord and burned from cigarette.
Robert grew up at his grandmother’s house where 30 grandchildren were living since his parents are not around for him. They are described as “aggressive.” Because there were so many children, he didn’t get much attention, so he started to hang on the street where his criminal records started. He got into big troubles as his activities deepen in Black Disciples gang. He stole cars, shoplifted, and stole money from people on the street.
The Memories of him vary person to person. Erica Williams explains "you really can't describe how bad he really was. He'd curse you completely out. He broke in school, took money, and burned cars."(5) Lulu Wasington says "He just wanted love". "he'd say thank you, excuse me, pardon me"." it always meant trouble when he was with a group". Says Ollie Jones (5)
Then the tragedy occurred when he was supposed to shoot enemy gang members yet killed an innocent girl Shavon, who was friend of Yummy long time age, at the scene. After, he was chased by the police for three days, but was killed by two gunshots in his head and founded on the mud at the railroad underpass. He was killed by his gang members
Juvenile-justice system has a problem of separating children criminals who may not have hope of rehabilitation from kids who can be changed with better system, like education. Certain states are lowering the age of juvenile crime the as same as an adult criminal. This is done by political candidates as if they were competing with each other for political purposes. But the District Attorney of Los Angeles County Gil Garcetti says "we need to throw out our entire juvenile-justice system, and we should replace it with one that both protects society from violent juvenile criminals and efficiently rehabilitates youth who can be saved and can differentiate between the two". (9)
As time goes by crimes are getting more serious than before and age of criminals are lowering. Since young criminals have common that they were raised from broken family that relative of theirs had been incarcerated. Therefore they need a place where they can be separated from the chances of involving in crime and a right institution to lead them right path. But with the current system, there is no solution.
 

Jennifer Calderon
ENG 201B
Professor Sabir
5/february/2012

This article is about a 11 year old boy Robert Sandifer who lived a tragic short life filled with violence and neglect. Because Robert enjoyed sweets he was better known as Yummy. Robert was born to Lorina he was her third born his father was Robert Atkins a felon held in prison with drug and weapon charges. Robert was the third child he had 7 siblings Lorina a high school drop out who became a crack user and dependent on welfare.

Yummy and his siblings were taken from their mother and given to their grandma Janie Fields for obvious signs of abuse and neglect. When the court took over the children bruises on Yummy’s legs made officers think he was being abused with a cable.
Lorina says Yummy felt that everything was her fault.

Opinions of Yummy are divided some say he is not going to be missed and describe him with obscene language, while others describe a loving respectful boy. However for his funeral the only picture that his family could provide was one of his mug shot.
Yummy joined the local Black Disciples gang when he was 11 years old.
When he was murdered he had 23 felonies and 5 misdemeanors in his record.

Yummy was believed to have taken orders from fellow gang members the day he opened fire on a open crowd. He had a 9MM gun and wounded a boy on the hand and killed Shavon Dean, 14, when he struck her in the head.
He spent the last 3 days on the run (6) he called his grandma for help as he was going to turn himself in. But when his grandma went looking for him he was nowhere to be found.
One night Yummy went to a neighbors house and ask to please pray with him. He also asked to please call his grandma but when the neighbor returned he was gone.
Derrick Hardaway ,14, and brother Cragg, 16, made Yummy think they were going to help him. The brothers took him to a tunnel what happened there is still a mystery. Police later found Yummy’s body he had been shot twice on the back of the head.
 

Estefany Angulo
English 201B
Professor Sabir
5 February 2012

Summary Yummy

The story of yummy is based on the life of yummy, real name Robert Sandifer. Although his life as a kid had not been well he was taken away from his parents with his grandmother. As the story changes with yummy, he gets into more trouble even committing a murder and more roberies. For a young kid that should only enjoy his childhood we see that his childhood is all over the place and not straightforward. Without his parents he would give permission to himself for everything he does ending up in a gang called the black disciples.
More crimes of young criminals begin to increase more where there is no solution yet. Even if the juvenille system will keep yummy, nothing would change him.
 

Estefany Angulo
English 201B
Professor Sabir
5 February 2012

Summary Yummy

The story of yummy is based on the life of yummy, real name Robert Sandifer. Although his life as a kid had not been well he was taken away from his parents with his grandmother. As the story changes with yummy, he gets into more trouble even committing a murder and more roberies. For a young kid that should only enjoy his childhood we see that his childhood is all over the place and not straightforward. Without his parents he would give permission to himself for everything he does ending up in a gang called the black disciples.
More crimes of young criminals begin to increase more where there is no solution yet. Even if the juvenille system will keep yummy, nothing would change him.
 

Songkham Lankhamdaeng
English 201A
Professor Sabir
7 February 2012

Yummy’s Story

The article is based on a troubled young boy named Robert (Yummy) Sandifer. Yummy lived in a rough neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, where many kids were expected to not live past the age of 19. As a child Yummy and his siblings were beaten and abused by their drugged using mother. Many saw Yummy as a troubled and hopeless kid that ran with the gangs. Neighborhood kids described Yummy as being ruthless and did not care about others. In the other hand many also described Yummy as being nice and kind. Robert “Yummy” Sandifer got the nickname “Yummy” from having a sweat tooth for chocolate and other candy.
Robert “Yummy” Sandifer ran with a gang called the Black Disciples. Older gang members would make Yummy and younger gang members commit the violent crimes, when the younger gang members were caught doing crimes. Younger members of the gang would just get a slap on the hand because of the law in Chicago at that time. Every time Yummy would get caught and sent to a group home he would always run away. The kids that showed fear when Yummy was around was getting punked for money and other goodies. Robert “Yummy” Sandifer, by the age of 11 has already caught 23 felonies and 5 misdemeanors.
The 28th of August 1994 Yummy shot into a crowd of kids and killed 14 year old Shavon Dean, whom was walking home from a friend house. Shavon Dean was Yummy’s neighbor. She lived on the same block as he did. After the murder of 14 year old Shavon Dean, Yummy went on a run from the authorities. His gang the Black Disciples was helping him hide out from the police. One day waiting for his grandmother Yummy was approached by two brothers Derrick and Cragg Hardaway. The two brothers lead Yummy into a underpass and executed him point blank behind the head. Yummy died on September 1, 1994 he was only 11 years of age.
 

Songkham Lankhamdaeng
English 201A
Professor Sabir
7 February 2012

Yummy’s Story

The article is based on a troubled young boy named Robert (Yummy) Sandifer. Yummy lived in a rough neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, where many kids were expected to not live past the age of 19. As a child Yummy and his siblings were beaten and abused by their drugged using mother. Many saw Yummy as a troubled and hopeless kid that ran with the gangs. Neighborhood kids described Yummy as being ruthless and did not care about others. In the other hand many also described Yummy as being nice and kind. Robert “Yummy” Sandifer got the nickname “Yummy” from having a sweat tooth for chocolate and other candy.

Robert “Yummy” Sandifer ran with a gang called the Black Disciples. Older gang members would make Yummy and younger gang members commit the violent crimes, when the younger gang members were caught doing crimes. Younger members of the gang would just get a slap on the hand because of the law in Chicago at that time. Every time Yummy would get caught and sent to a group home he would always run away. The kids that showed fear when Yummy was around was getting punked for money and other goodies. Robert “Yummy” Sandifer, by the age of 11 has already caught 23 felonies and 5 misdemeanors.

The 28th of August 1994 Yummy shot into a crowd of kids and killed 14 year old Shavon Dean, whom was walking home from a friend house. Shavon Dean was Yummy’s neighbor. She lived on the same block as he did. After the murder of 14 year old Shavon Dean, Yummy went on a run from the authorities. His gang the Black Disciples was helping him hide out from the police. One day waiting for his grandmother Yummy was approached by two brothers Derrick and Cragg Hardaway. The two brothers lead Yummy into a underpass and executed him point blank behind the head. Yummy died on September 1, 1994 he was only 11 years of age.
 

Viola Merino
Wanda Sabir
English 201a
06 February 2012

Summary of TIME article:

Nancy R. Gibbs goes into great detail about Robert Sandifer’s background, family history, and all-together tragic life. In the second half of the Time article Richard Lacoyo draws attention to the flaws in our juvenile-justice system.
Gibbs states that Janie Fields gave birth to ten children with four different fathers, the third of which was Lorina Sandifer (3). Lorina Sandifer gave birth to Robert Sandifer and seven other children (3). Lorina physically abused her children. Robert’s younger sister had her genitals purposely burned on the family’s heater; Robert’s brother went blind from a neglected eye infection, and Robert himself had physical and emotional scars of torture. The children were eventually removed from Lorina’s home for neglect (3).
At only eleven years of age Robert joined a gang known as the Black Disciples. He tried to “prove himself” by committing crimes for his gang. He earned himself twenty-three felonies and five misdemeanors during the last year and a half of his life (5). Robert’s crime spree advanced from petty theft, to grand theft, to assault with a deadly weapon, to murder. He shot Sammy Seay in the hand and Shavon Dean in the head, killing her. Three days after the murder of Dean, Robert’s body was found with two bullet wounds to the back of his head; shot by Gragg Hardaway a co-member of the Black Disciples.
Attorney General Janet Reno believes crime has its roots among neglected children. Janet says that many on these children don’t understand what punishment means because they have been raised in a world without the concepts of reward and punishment.
In an interview given by Lacoyo, Gill Garcetti the District Attorney of Los Angeles County said, “We need to throw out our entire juvenile-justice system. We should replace it with one that both protects society from violent juvenile criminals and efficiently rehabilitates youths who can be saved – and can differentiate between the two” (8).
North Carolina attorney general Mike Easley says: “We can’t look a kid in the eye and tell him that we can’t spend a thousand dollars on him when he is 12 or 13 but that we will be happy to reserve a jail cell for him and spend a hundred grand a year on him later.”
Murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault cases have significantly increased amongst juvenile offenders (8). Lacoyo writes: "Homicide arrests of kids ages 10 through 14 rose from 194 to 301 between 1988 and 1992." (9)
 

The time article which explains a tale of a tragic and short life a kid who was only 11 years old. His name was Robert Sandifer infamously known as "Yummy" because of his love for sweet treats. Yummy lived on the south side of Chicago where things was below standard living. His mom was negligent since yummy's birth and would often nurse her crack habits. Yummy dad, Robert Akins, was in jail because of drug and weapon charges. Yummy also had to deal with the fact that he was living with five other relatives including himself on a daily basics. The mother of yummy, Lorina Sandifer, was constantly beating her children and burning them with cigarettes. Yummy would have very distinct marks on his body while he later said that he was beaten by his mom with electrical cords. Because of his dysfunctional family, and the broken house hold he live in, It would seem that trouble would only fellow him anywhere he go. Yummy found himself breaking, into cars, burning cars, stealing from local shops, and inevitably causing trouble at school when he did decide to go. Most kids found yummy a bully demanding for there money and belongings. He found himself in and out juvenile hall which could not keep him since he was so young. Yummy soon found himself joining a gang called the Black Disciples and start doing jobs for them, jobs yummy was already doing, stealing and causing havoc. Now he was in a gang and had to prove himself worthy and this is where yummy miss fortunes caught up with him. One of the member of the gang told yummy to take out a member from one of there rival gangs and gave yummy a gun to deal with this problem. Yummy goes to the neighborhood where the gang member suppose to been and see a bunch of kids playing outside. Presumably one of the kids was the gang member yummy was looking for and yummy wasted no time shooting into the crowd of children. Yummy lack of skill in wielding a gun cause him to accidentally shoot an innocent bystandard. The victim, 14 year old Shavon Dean was shot in the head. This killing sent the city into a frenzy and a manhunt for yummy. He went to hideout to hideout with his gang, but even he knew that the cops would eventually catch on to there temporary hideouts. Ultimately, Yummy was found by two teens, Derrick Hardaway, 14 and his brother cragg 16, both fellow gang members. They promised yummy they would take him get out of town, but instead took him to a secluded location where they would murder yummy.
 

Rohan Maharjan
Wanda Sabir
English 201A
6 February 2012

Article about Yummy

Basically, this article begins with a reporter who was doing research about the streets. He described about hard living life in the hoods where gangs rule when he went through regarding crime occurred. It is about an 11 year old boy Robert Sandifier better known as Yummy. It is Yummy because he loves sweet things a lot and everybody called him Yummy. He was born to Chicago’s broken families. At the age of 15, his mom gave a first birth. Among all children, Yummy was the third to born. His mom had a really bad background regarding her life that in high school she dropped out when she was in 10th grade. Furthermore, at the age of 29 she was arrested 47 times due to drug and prostitution. His father had also same background as his mother did because he was also sent to jail for drugs and weapon charges. Yummy grew up in his grandmother’s house where there were 30 children living with her together. Yummy couldn’t get that much attention due to a lot of children in her grandmother’s houses so he began to hangout on the street and he joined gang called Black Disciples. He started to steal cars, money from the people on the streets and his crime record started from there.

There were a lot of memories from person to person regarding him because some people loved him and some didn’t because they way he behave and the way he was. Erica Williams who knew Yummy describe that people couldn’t really tell how bad he was because he would use obscene word to people completely and he broke in school, steal money and burned cars. Also, Lulu Washington describes him as a loving and respectful guy because he would say thank you, excuse me and pardon. Ollie Jones describes that he get in a trouble whenever he hangs out with a group.

The tragedy occurred one day when he shot an innocent girl Shavon instead of enemy gang members. Shavon who got shot was Yummy’s friend a long time ago. Then, police chased him for three days. Later, he was also found dead on the mud at the railroad underpass. He was killed by Derrick who was 14 and Cragg who was 16. He got shot two times in his head and died at the early age of 11 on September 1, 1994.

In the Juveniles justice system, there was argument about separating those children criminals that they need to remove juvenile system because it is also a crime that adult does. The District Attorney of Los Angeles County Gill says it does not matter what crime these kids do but it is affecting society and creating a lot problems. We need to protect society from crime from these kids and we need to remove this system completely. As the time pass, crimes are getting more serious than before so these kids need a better place to live on where they don’t have any chance of involving in crime and institution to show them the right path to walk on.
 

Demetrius Phillips
Eng 201A
Professor Sabir
(Reposting)

The time article which explains a tale of a tragic and short life a kid who was only 11 years old. His name was Robert Sandifer infamously known as "Yummy" because of his love for sweet treats. Yummy lived on the south side of Chicago where things was below standard living. His mom was negligent since yummy's birth and would often nurse her crack habits. Yummy dad, Robert Akins, was in jail because of drug and weapon charges. Yummy also had to deal with the fact that he was living with five other relatives including himself on a daily basics. The mother of yummy, Lorina Sandifer, was constantly beating her children and burning them with cigarettes. Yummy would have very distinct marks on his body while he later said that he was beaten by his mom with electrical cords. Because of his dysfunctional family, and the broken house hold he live in, It would seem that trouble would only fellow him anywhere he go. Yummy found himself breaking, into cars, burning cars, stealing from local shops, and inevitably causing trouble at school when he did decide to go. Most kids found yummy a bully demanding for there money and belongings. He found himself in and out juvenile hall which could not keep him since he was so young. Yummy soon found himself joining a gang called the Black Disciples and start doing jobs for them, jobs yummy was already doing, stealing and causing havoc. Now he was in a gang and had to prove himself worthy and this is where yummy miss fortunes caught up with him. One of the member of the gang told yummy to take out a member from one of there rival gangs and gave yummy a gun to deal with this problem. Yummy goes to the neighborhood where the gang member suppose to been and see a bunch of kids playing outside. Presumably one of the kids was the gang member yummy was looking for and yummy wasted no time shooting into the crowd of children. Yummy lack of skill in wielding a gun cause him to accidentally shoot an innocent bystandard. The victim, 14 year old Shavon Dean was shot in the head. This killing sent the city into a frenzy and a manhunt for yummy. He went to hideout to hideout with his gang, but even he knew that the cops would eventually catch on to there temporary hideouts. Ultimately, Yummy was found by two teens, Derrick Hardaway, 14 and his brother cragg 16, both fellow gang members. They promised yummy they would take him get out of town, but instead took him to a secluded location where they would murder yummy.
 

Sosorbaram Bayaraa
Englis 201B
Professor Wanda Sabir
8 February 2012


Summary of Time magazine’s article

The article in Time magazine is about an eleven-year old troublesome boy called Robert Sandifer a.k.a. Yummy. Reporter Julie Roberts and Midwest bureau chief Jon Hull did research about Yummy’s short life based on his friends more likely enemies, neighborhoods, teachers and family members interviews.
After three days of report Hull was in dilemma, because the eleven-year-old boy was too bad, he states, “I still couldn’t decide which was more appalling: the child’s life or the child’s death” (1). A lot of parents believes that his dead wisdom and a great example of “Being bad and that watch you will be”. Also article tells that almost nobody liked Yummy except his grandmother.
Yummy had really bad background his dad Robert Akins is in jail for drug and weapons charge. His mom is drug addict has been arrested 41 times, mainly for prostitution (4). Police determines that Yummy was in hospital several time due by child abuse and neglect by his mom. Due all this evidence social services replaced Yummy with his brother and sisters from his mom and made him live with his grandmother Janie Fields. But the house was full, ten children and thirty grandchildren lived with Janie. Basically she did not know who is leaving the house or who is coming in the house.
Eleven-year-old Yummy had already twenty-three felonies and five misdemeanors. He was charged for shoplifting, robbery, burglary, fighting. Chicago police department did not know what to do because he was too young (4).
Tragedy began with he is murdering a fourteen-years-old girl Shavon Dean. He became gang member of “Black Disciples” that time. He believed that he would impress the boss and the other gang members killing by someone. Gang researcher George Knox believes that Yummy was sent on specific mission to revenge or to collect some points or maybe to get some money bonus (7). He fired two three times. During the gunfire Shavon was struck in the head and died right after.
Yummy was on the run for three days. Police were after him, Black Disciples were after him, and everybody was after him. After three days his body found under the railroad tunnel covered with mud and blood, with two bullet wounds in the back of his head (7).
Whole nation is trying to figure out how to fight with youth criminal and how to stop it.