[Bettyprob]

AP story was updated:

The boy told his mother that "he got mad, lost his temper and grabbed a cane and put it around Novak's throat," police said. Advised of his rights and interviewed by a trooper, he said he "pulled Novak down on the bed and held the cane on her throat and then punched her numerous times," authorities said.

State police said the boy told them that he went to his grandfather and told him that the woman was "bleeding from her mouth" but denied he had harmed her, but later told him that he had punched the woman and put a cane around her neck.

Yikes.

[TurboZamboni]

Going to be an adopted Kennedy some day.

[Blue Jays]

This boy is likely beyond rehabilitation.
He seemingly has a taste for blood and it is difficult to envision how an individual like this could be trusted again.

Thinking back decades to when I was 10 years old the notion of respect for elders superseded virtually all other considerations.
The notion of striking an innocent person would have not even entered my youthful mind.
What an unfortunate news story and how sadly tragic for the 90 year old victim.