Alberta’s on-line Goth community is reacting with anger to a triple murder in Medicine Hat alleged to involve a 12-year-old girl and her 23-year-old boyfriend believed to be part of the Goth culture.
April 26, 2006
Alberta’s on-line Goth community is reacting with anger to a triple murder in Medicine Hat alleged to involve a 12-year-old girl and her 23-year-old boyfriend believed to be part of the Goth culture.
This comes as Edmonton-based youth site Nexopia (click here) removed the girl’s profile from it’s website. She described herself as 15 years old and used the name Runawaydevil.
A message board posted on the Goth website VampireFreaks.com (click here) states: Wanna-Be Vampires giving us a bad name.
In one entry, an 18-year-old Calgary woman who goes by the name Goth Sugar accuses the media of portraying everyone who follows the Goth culture as “a murderous blood-fending vampire.”
“I read a very chilling article in the paper stating that a 12-year-old bi-sexual goth girl with ambitions to become a piercer/tattoo artist and a Vampire Freaks account” member was charged along with her boyfriend of murdering a family.
“Now I don't know about any one else, but I'm completely outraged by the information they actually printed in this article, it hints at every single person fitting this ‘description’ to be a murderous blood fending vampire!!!”
Other website members use the site to trade information, some of which would be prohibited from the mainstream media by law. The girl cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act because of her age. That also means her relationship with the dead family cannot be described because it might identify her.
In a posting, Nikki07 from Quebec says: “This is creepy. Did any of you hear about what happened ? There was this girl who was 12 years old she had an account here and apparently she met some dude that was 23 years old from here and I don’t know what happened.”
Friends of the 12-year-old girl say she met boyfriend Jeremy Allan Steinke on the website. VampireFreaks.com claims 510,000 users.
Observers of the Goth culture say it is fueled largely by fantasy and teenage angst. Goth websites are filled with dark poetry, often with suicidal thoughts, allowing members to share feelings of depression, loneliness and anger with gallows humour.
Operators of the website took the 12-year-old girl’s posting down Tuesday.
The site featured seven photographs of the girl, all of which made her look much older than her 12 years. She wears heavy dark eye makeup and has dark hair.
She listed:
Activities: Cooking, listening to music, partying, shopping and traveling.
Art: Astrology, Body Art, Cartooning, Clothing design, Drawing, Film/Video Making, Graphic Design, Painting, Photography, Singing, Song Writing, Web Design.
Computers: E-mail, Instant Messaging, Surfing the net.
Movies: Action, Anime, Comedy, Horror, Psychological Thrillers, Science Fiction.
Music: Alternative, Classic Rock, Death Metal, Goth, Happy Hardcore, Hardcore, Industrial, Metal, Punk, Rock.
Musical Instruments: Electric Guitar.
Sports: Boxing, Gymnastics, Martial Arts, Rock Climbing, Swimming, Yoga.
Among the lines of poetry were the phrases:
Cut my wings and let me bleed away.
Welcome to my tragic end.
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