Town stunned as boy, 8, charged in 2 killings
By ersmommy1
@ersmommy1 (12588)
United States
November 8, 2008 8:56am CST
FBI statistics show instances of children younger than 11 committing homicides are very rare. According to recent FBI supplementary homicide reports, there were at least three such cases each year in 2003, 2004 and 2005; there were at least 15 in 2002. More recent statistics weren't available, nor were details of the cases.
Arizona boy accused of shooting father, boarder in father's house. Suspect has no record of discipline at school or trouble at home. Police improperly questioned boy, defense attorney says.
Doesn't give a reason why the boy did this. I leave my child with my hubby all the time. Don't you leave your children with spouse or S/O? Or family member? I would never think this could happen?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/08/child.charged.ap/index.html
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
8 Nov 08
This seems weird. No child would kill their parent unless they had a good reason or unless there was something wrong with the child in the first place - like the cat is missing, he pulls wings off flies, or seems extremely intelligent for someone of his age. I wonder where was there mention of his mother. Perhaps the father said horrible things about the mother, and the boy could not take it and lashed out and killed him. Perhaps he saw something that he could not handle. Whatever it was, only something traumatic could drive a normal kid to murder.
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@wujinbo (341)
• China
9 Nov 08
the childrens lack of the love of family.so they hate the society and do some unusual actions,because they feel lonely and on one can take care of them.they just like a homeless bird,they need a nest to live in.whatever ,at last ,they dont know what to live their life ,so they hate everything,so that they shoot what they hate.
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@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
8 Nov 08
I read the story but I am still sitting here in disbelief. It makes you wonder what could have been going on that nobody knew about behind closed doors. I do hope for the sake of this child that even though he committed murder that they will try to dig into what is really going on and why he done it. It had to have been something really serious for him to commit a murder for it.
@deebomb (15304)
• United States
9 Nov 08
I don't believe the boy did it. One man in an up stairs bed room and the other at the front door. If you heard a shot what would you do? I think there is much more to the story. How could it happen. I beleive the child was so scared that he finaly confessed.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/11/07/dnt.girl.kicked.off.bus.whdh
@eden32 (3973)
• United States
8 Nov 08
I saw this story last night. It's so distressing that I all I could think was that I hope the police made a mistake. That it wasn't a premeditated murder (which is what they're saying he confessed to) perhaps it was an accident & the child is just confused. Or perhaps the child didn't do it at all, but someone made it appear he did. I realize this hope isn't based on fact, I just can't wrap my mind around an 8 year old committing 2 premeditated murders.
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@lilybug (21107)
• United States
8 Nov 08
Something terrible had to have been being done to that child for him to do something like that. The boy has no record of any behavior issues. If he was a troubled young boy who got into trouble all the time I could maybe see it, but since that is not the case I can only think that the boy was being abused somehow.
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@DaddyOfTheRose (2934)
• United States
10 Nov 08
Other than mental problems, I can think of only one real way to explain this. That particular reason, I neither want to think about nor explain. The story shocks me, too.
