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9 yr old girl pleads guilty to Murder

post #1 of 12
10/7/05 at 7:39pm
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Wow, saw this on the net today and had to share...

http://start.earthlink.net/article/n...1007-517200398

A nine year old girl stabs her best friend!! I know this happens but when you read about it, it hits you in the chest. What are everyones thoughts on this?
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post #2 of 12
10/7/05 at 7:53pm
Two things come to mind.

1. These kids who do things like this have never been taught right from wrong.
2. These kids who do things like this have never been taught about consequenses for their actions. If you stab someone and they may die. If you kill someone you go away to jail or someplace else unpleasant.

WHERE are the parents of these children?? I don't mean just when the actual incident takes place either. I mean, where are the parents in the children's LIVES?!?
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post #3 of 12
10/7/05 at 8:06pm
or if the parents weren't doing their jobs she at least shoulda had a teacher who cared or even a mentor to show her right from wrong.
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post #4 of 12
10/7/05 at 8:06pm
I think sometimes kids that young don't realize that death is permanent. They get mad, they do what they see on TV or whatever, and expect their friend to just get back up and everything's normal again. They just don't know how else to solve a conflict. What a sad lesson to learn.
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post #5 of 12
10/7/05 at 8:32pm
this is one example of why children should never be left alone. If the mother had been there, she may have diffused the situation before it got too far. So sad.
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post #6 of 12
10/7/05 at 9:00pm
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Originally Posted by valanhb
Two things come to mind.

1. These kids who do things like this have never been taught right from wrong.
2. These kids who do things like this have never been taught about consequenses for their actions. If you stab someone and they may die. If you kill someone you go away to jail or someplace else unpleasant.

WHERE are the parents of these children?? I don't mean just when the actual incident takes place either. I mean, where are the parents in the children's LIVES?!?

It is so sad!!!
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post #7 of 12
10/7/05 at 9:04pm
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Originally Posted by Sandtigress
I think sometimes kids that young don't realize that death is permanent. They get mad, they do what they see on TV or whatever, and expect their friend to just get back up and everything's normal again. They just don't know how else to solve a conflict. What a sad lesson to learn.
So true ... I still beleived in the easter bunny at that age ....
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post #8 of 12
10/7/05 at 10:17pm
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Originally Posted by Sandtigress
I think sometimes kids that young don't realize that death is permanent. They get mad, they do what they see on TV or whatever, and expect their friend to just get back up and everything's normal again. They just don't know how else to solve a conflict. What a sad lesson to learn.
Maybe it's because of how I was raised, but I certainly knew by age 9 that death is forever. I knew that if you hit someone it hurts, cut someone they bleed, and hurt someone enough and they die. These concepts are not above a 9 year old IF they are actually taught by parents. Not by the TV, movies, cartoons or video games. Not necessarily by example by showing death, but if it happens (i.e. a relative's death, a pet's death) it shouldn't be sugar coated either.

Kids aren't stupid. Ask anyone who works with kids. They understand a lot more than most adults give them credit for. BUT, they can't know what they've never been taught.
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post #9 of 12
10/8/05 at 9:43am
I feel so sorry for the parents of the little girl that is dead because they assumed the parents of the other little girl did their jobs as parents. When parents don't raise their children correctly, it's a betrayal to society.

She's obviously an angry little girl, and anger is sadness turned inside out. Poor baby.
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post #10 of 12
10/8/05 at 10:03am
It sickens me that a 9 year old could do something like that. I think her parents would have noticed violent tendanies in her early and mabye this didn't have to happen, maybe they weren't an active part of her life though...who knows. It's sad for both parents, the parents of the killer and the victim..both have lost a daughter in one way or another.
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post #11 of 12
10/8/05 at 10:08am
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Originally Posted by Purr
I feel so sorry for the parents of the little girl that is dead because they assumed the parents of the other little girl did their jobs as parents. When parents don't raise their children correctly, it's a betrayal to society.
That's so well put. I totally agree.
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post #12 of 12
10/13/05 at 12:07pm
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Originally Posted by amitya
this is one example of why children should never be left alone. If the mother had been there, she may have diffused the situation before it got too far. So sad.
My 9 y/o and her best friend have spent time alone together. If they are in the house, I do not hesitate to go outside in the yard, etc. They sleep together on sleepovers, etc. I agree kids need supervision, but two healthy 9 y/o kids should be safe together!

I will wait to hear more. My guess is there is violence in the home, or drug use in the parents, or something out of the ordinary to cause this. Just a sad situation all the way around, for both families!
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