I knew we were headed for trouble when an infant was brutally beaten by a 6 year old back in 1996. Article
And now we're faced with more bad seeds as we move forward in time. I think that in comparison to the 1956 film, The Bad Seed which back in the day was considered fiction, pales in comparison to the reality that we read about today. Little miss Rhoda, 8 years old, was a "pill" to say the least. It's funny how we thought, this was Hollywood telling a story based on a supposition.
In our world today, Jordan Anthony Brown, 11 years old, shot his father's pregnant fiancé, with a hunting rifle he'd gotten for Christmas. He's been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the February 20 shooting, has been put behind bars.
Anyone who commits murder, unless it's self-defense cannot be rehabilitated. They have crossed a moral and ethical line. This child should be tried as an adult. He went all grown up when he killed a woman and her unborn child.
By 11 years old, you understand the consequences for your behavior. I love it the way kids act out as adults and then some over zealous defense attorney will cop the "but he's a kid defense". I have to take the hard line on this. Whatever the punishment, his sentence is the effect from his cause. Whatever happens happens. It's a hard lesson to learn. Evidently, not enough people are punished for their crimes because there are too many repeat offenders.
Cause and effect are strict. The 11 year old did the act that contributed to the death of two innocent victims. One an unborn child. How weird is it to have to say that someone died before they were born? It was irresponsible for the father to give this 11 year old a hunting rifle for Christmas. The father should also be held accountable. I don't feel sorry for this 11 year old, 5th grader. My thoughts are with the victims. The perpetrators of murders are not victims and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
And--- as the great Forrest Gump would say: And that's all I have to say about that!
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this is beginning to be an epidemic, with these children killing adults. they should be prosecuted as adults because they are old enough to know that if you point and pull the trigger someone is going to die and there will be consequences. while you are locking up the kid lock up his parents too for they are responsible for the safety and well being of these kids and should be held accountable. buy a kid a gun or leave it around for them to have access to a weapon that will take a life is a crime and they should be prosecuted and given the same time if not more as acessory after the fact or negligent homicide.
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