I don’t even know where to start with this.
The story is about a seven year old boy beating his infant half-sister to death.
There are so many ignorant statements and tell-tale signs in that short article that I was tempted to quote the whole thing here, interspersed with my commentary. Then I realized that the people that read here can do it for themselves. Y’all don’t need me to spoon feed you. You’re all intelligent and decent.
I can’t resist commenting on this:
Police said the father and his girlfriend were outside visiting with neighbors when the boy came to them about midnight on the night of the attack and told them the baby was bleeding. They found the girl with a bloody nose and said she wasn’t breathing.
The father and his girlfriend. I’m sure it’s safe to assume that the “girlfriend” is the mother of the dead infant. What is a seven year old doing up at midnight? What is he doing alone in the house while his father and his father’s girlfriend are “visiting with the neighbors” at midnight? Who in their right mind would leave a a seven year old, let alone an infant, in the house alone while they were out “visiting” in the middle of the night?
The article goes on to talk about the “complex legal issues involved with bringing charges against such a young child.” That’s a quote from the prosecutors discussing what should be done with the seven year old child. No mention in the article at all about what should be done to the adulterous “father” (that’s using the word loosely) and his negligent girlfriend.
Don’t ask me what I would do about this. You don’t want to know. Trust me.
I will say this: The report says that the boy is living with his mother while prosecutors decide whether to charge him. He’s SEVEN. Prosecuting him would never have crossed my mind.
I’m burning to say more about this but I don’t want to get off on a rant. So tell me what you think.
