Posted on 12/11/2014 1:27:22 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
A 10-year-old boy who's been in an adult jail since authorities say he fatally beat a 90-year-old woman two months ago is scared, lonely and misses his mother, his public defender said.
The boy, one of the youngest ever to face an adult homicide charge in Pennsylvania, met with family through a glass partition when he was first brought to the county lockup in rural northeastern Pennsylvania. More recently, he was permitted to have physical contact with them, according to the attorney, Scott Bennett.
"So his mom can give him a hug," he said this week.
The beating occurred Oct. 11 at the home of the boy's grandfather, who had been caring for the victim, Helen Novak. The boy became angered when he went into Novak's home to ask her a question and she yelled at him, according to the boy's mother, who brought him to a state police barracks later that day.
According to the mother, the boy told her that "he got mad, lost his temper and grabbed a cane and put it around Novak's throat," police said. The boy told a trooper he punched her several times in the throat and stomach while holding her down on the bed, authorities have said.
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Sounds like the kid is The Bad Seed.
A very successful 1954 novel (and subsequent play and movie), The Bad Seed, explores the topic of murderous children.
From Wikipedia: “In the decade the novel was published, juvenile delinquency began to be far more common, or at least more extensively reported and documented. Compared to earlier history, the idea of child crimes was a new phenomenon. A controversy about nature and nurture arose as psychiatric explanations were proposed for juvenile delinquency, with the debate being whether inborn tendencies (”nature”) are more or less important than environmental factors (”nurture”) in explaining deviant behavior.
“Supporters of the nature side suggested that some people are born evil or with malicious tendencies. The idea that nature prevails over nurture is implied in The Bad Seed. March incorporates the notion that a murderous genetic trait is being passed down through the generations. “
For photo of Tristen Kurilla, the killer, go here: http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/10/pa_boy_10_charged_with_killing.html
Link identifying the victim and accused from the comments section of the article:
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/10/pa_boy_10_charged_with_killing.html
Not Amish...hard to tell from photo (might not be current) but doesn’t look like an outsized gentle giant type kid either.
Just imagine this kid when he reaches adolescence - weighs north of 200 lbs - and has a bad attitude.
Not even I would turn my back on that.
The little thug in question...
Do a brutal adult crime, serve brutal adult time.
Imho, this boy will kill again.
Why allow them to merely hone their skills until they can be administered an adult sentence? How is this fair to the string of dead victims these little thugs will leave in their wake of violence?
AbsoDamnlutely right. Put down and quickly before any of the ‘RAT bleeding heart liberals can gain any traction with their oh, he is just a little kid, we can rehabilitate him crap.
At 8 years old, I had already pegged my nephew as evil and dangerous. I predicted then he would grow up and kill or be killed. He didn’t disapoint me. He was in and out of jail and committed murder at 19 years old.
He had great parents and a brother who grew up just fine. He was just plain mean and evil.
100% dittos to that!
We’ve been told the word “thug” is racist. So I think you’re using the word improperly, at least as far as the race-hustlers are concerned.
If i was the judge...
You are a murderous little bastard..
you are to be taken from this place, to a place of execution, where you will be hanged by the neck until you are dead...
may god have mercy on your soul, because i do not..
Except maybe the pedophiles
joe for Judge!! Little puke murderer: “Oh but I did not mean to do it! Really I did not, cry, beg wah-wah, beg, cry, fake grovel etc. etc. etc. please Mr. joe, I won’t do it again!” Bleeding heart liberal rat bastards in the court room: “See, See, See, See, See,...he says he won’t do it again!!!, we can rehabilitate him!!!! Let him go! He is only a CHILD!” Judge joe fonebone: “BULLSH$T!!!!!!!!!!! Hang his punk azz NOW!........Okay, next case!!”.................
“So his mom can give him a hug,”
Ah, poor thing. I’d hug that animal with barbed wire.
We are all “murdering little turds” by Jesus’s standard. Character assassination counts.
Wow...you would advocate executing a 10 ten year...
Seriously?
You despise God.
My mother is in a clean and beautiful nursing home in a dicey neighborhood (I didn’t realize that when we made the switch from the emergency room to rehab to nursing home in a bit of a panic - my mother seemed to be dying in the rehab center). If anyone hurts my 90 year old mother, if I had the connections, I’d have the mob kill them. To murder a elderly woman is a taboo that should never, ever be broken.
By calling on a curse as your support, you invest yourself in the curse. Good luck trying to get it to let go of you later.
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