Posted on 06/01/2005 11:25:00 AM PDT by neverdem
The 9-year-old girl's mother was gone only briefly Monday, running upstairs to the 11th floor to borrow a hair-straightening comb to help give the girl braids before a barbecue downstairs in the courtyard.
The girl was playing with one of her closest friends, with whom she spent so much time that some thought they were related, an 11-year-old named Queen Washington. Everyone called her Queenie. In the 9-year-old's apartment on the seventh floor of the Linden Houses in East New York, Brooklyn, the two girls began to fight over a ball, the police said.
As any parent will tell, even the gentlest child has an occasional tantrum. But the 9-year-old, while bright and inventive, struck some of her neighbors as a different kind, a girl who often showed flashes of nasty, violent anger when she did not get her way.
"As long as things go in her favor, she was a sweet, beautiful young girl," said Kahindà Lannigan, 42, a retired home care worker who lives in the girl's building. "But when the tides were in favor of other children, she'll hit, kick, scratch, scream and spit. She'd hit anyone on the head with a bottle if she was fighting. She'd beat them any way she could."
Still, the adults who knew her said yesterday, no one would imagine her capable of killing.
The police said the 9-year-old stabbed Queenie in the chest with a steak knife. The blade perforated the older girl's heart, killing her as she stumbled out of the apartment and tried to make it to the elevator down the hall, the police said.
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Anahad O'Connor usually writes about health and medicine. I'm inclined to think that was her contribution.
>>The police said the 9-year-old stabbed Queenie in the chest with a steak knife. The blade perforated the older girl's heart, killing her as she stumbled out of the apartment and tried to make it to the elevator down the hall, the police said.<<
I'm going to be sick.
I knew kids like this in school. They have no control over themselves. The schools hold them until they go to prison.
Clearly England is on the right path. We need knife control here as well. If that doesn't work, chop sticks will be the only approved untensils.
Actually, in reading the entire article, my neighbor's girl is just like this.
I want nothing to do with the family. My hubby doesn't get it. He really likes the husband and with the husband goes the daughter.
After putting my foot down months ago, my hubby decided to ask this guy for help in a project. With him came the 9 year old daughter. With no warning, I saw them out the window. I ran around the house closing curtains so my girls would not see her.
My hubby doesn't get it.
You'll get my spork when you pry it from my cold, dead hand.
Poor impulse control.
I wonder what they'll ban when strangulation becomes problematic? Hmmm?
The father must feel awful. /s>
SPOILED BRAT. Sounds like the little five-year old perp who tore up the classroom. Wonder what she'll be like to live with as she grows older.
Did you ever see the movie " The Bad Seed".
You are doing the right thing.
Sometimes hubbies just have a harder time with picking up on crap like that.
Another example of the fatherless and godless generation.
Don't make statement like the above until you think them through because I know of cases where schools turned kids into monsters because those schools were turned into 'Zero Tolerance' prisons.
Stick to your guns, gal. Protecting your kids comes first. If you feel that there is something wrong with this child or she may present a danger to your kids, you are perfectly justified in putting your foot down. Show this article to your hubby, maybe he'll get it then.
Socipath.
And that is really all that needs to be said.
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