A 9-year-old boy has been charged with first-degree murder in the beating death of a toddler in a St. Louis suburb….Defense attorney Bill Walker said the boy’s mother and grandmother both died years ago and that the other adults in his life were detained after being charged with child endangerment. The Belleville News Democrat reports that prosecutors alleged those three adults left the toddler unsupervised with four other children.
Even unsupervised, what brings a child to murder another child? There are just some bad seeds about, and guns have nothing to do with it. Maybe this was just a fluke, but this 9 year old will be released at the latest on his 21st Birthday, after spending much of his childhood around other youthful violent criminals.
What scares you more? Meeting up with your standard CCW holder with a loaded gun in a dark alley, or bouncing into a bad seed like this with something as simple as a pocket knife or a pipe wrench?
This happened here in DC recently though it was a 12 year old that did the crime. His parents were fostering a toddler and the kid for whatever reason did not like it….he killed the kid….
Of course the family of the toddler is “outraged” even though they could not take of the kid when they had it.
Sad story really.