Was more than one child attacked?
Woke?
Either that or the Tacoma News Tribune is presuming “pronouns”.
...”Was more than one child attacked?”
Singular “they”
“They” and its inflected forms, “them”, “their”, “theirs”, and “themselves”, are gender-neutral third-person pronouns. They are often used when referring to a person who does not identify with a gender-specific pronoun. For example, when referring to “a reader” in a paper, one is not specifically referring to a woman, man, or someone of another gender.
No, the idiot “journalists” don’t know which sex the child is.
One child, but the sex of the child is not known. There is nothing wrong with ‘their’ in that context.
Idiots changed the 'number' of the subject in the middle of the headline.
If you're not going to hire decent editors, then you really need to think at least about hiring fully-literate writers.*
* I can't qualify them as "journalists."
My guess is the idiot writing the article is non-binary?
“Details regarding the child’s age and sex were not released by officials.”
It is Washington state, so perhaps the parents didn’t want the name of their 8-year old whom they are raising as non-binary out there. Seriously.