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A woman who became one of the victims in a racially-motivated attack by Mark Wahlberg during his delinquent days in Boston has responded to the actor's pardon request. "I don't think he should get a pardon," Kristyn Atwood told The Associated Press.

Years ago, young Wahlberg and his white friends chased a group of mostly black 4th grade students on a class trip while throwing rocks and hurling racial insults at them. "It was a hate crime, and that's exactly what should be on his record forever," Atwood said.

The now 38-year-old woman living in Decatur, Georgia still bears a scar from getting hit by a rock during the incident. "I don't really care who he is. It doesn't make him any exception. If you're a racist, you're always going to be a racist. And for him to want to erase it I just think it's wrong," she said.

However, Mary Belmonte, a white teacher who accompanied the students on the trip that day, has a different opinion. "I believe in forgiveness," she said. "He was just a young kid - a punk - in the mean streets of Boston. He didn't do it specifically because he was a bad kid. He was just a follower doing what the other kids were doing."

"I have apologized, many times," Wahlberg said in December. "The first opportunity I had to apologize was right there in court when all the dust had settled and I was getting shackled and taken away, and making sure I paid my debt to society and continue to try and do things that make up for the mistakes that I've made."