Boy, 7, admits killing baby

South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^ | 06/01/2005 | Vickie Chachere

[Keyes2000mt]

TAMPA -- A 7-year-old boy fatally beat his baby half-sister with his fists, feet and a two-by-four because he was jealous of the attention she was receiving and because she wouldn't stop crying, police said Wednesday.

The Hillsborough County State Attorney's Office is trying to decide whether to file charges against the boy in the attack that rattled even veteran homicide detectives.

"The veteran detectives who worked on this case have never seen a case with someone as young as a 7-year-old show so much violence and so little remorse," McElroy said. "The only explanation he gave is he wanted her to stop crying."

The unidentified boy was not taken into custody and is living with his mother in Lakeland while prosecutors make their decision. The attack occurred May 22 at the home of the boy's father in Tampa.

[Keyes2000mt]

Thank God, we're safe from the ten commandments in school, or some really bad things might happen.

[Texas_Jarhead]

Not to mention corporal punishment.

[jess35]

The 10 commandments wouldn't have stopped that kid. He's a little sociopath.

[cyborg]

God said he hates divorce for a reason.

[Paul Atreides]

If they were ever married in the first place.

[cyborg]

Even worse...

[lilylangtree]

Dear God in Heaven! What tragic circumstances!

[stainlessbanner]

sadness

[iconoclast]

I hate to be the cynic here, but how long was he questioned?

[Paul Atreides]

I have to wonder what the father was doing, at the time.

[bonfire]

"I have to wonder what the father was doing, at the time."

My first thought.

[cyborg]

This is tragic on so many levels but I'm not surprised.

[Mortikhi]

The parent(s) in charge or present should be prosecuted.

[Brytani]

News reports say the father had stepped outside to talk to neighbors while the baby was taking a nap. The boy admitted he waited until his father had left the apartment to kill his half-sister.

[USMMA_83]

Welcome to family life in the US.... Yeah! for our culture of death. Kill anything that annoys you. My wife and I were talking about God (we are Hindu-Jew), and it just so happened "Friends" was on TV. We both remarked, how with all the troubles the characters on Friends have had in terms of career, family, relationships, etc., not ONCE has any character fallen to their knees and asked for help from God. Striking and scary.

[killermosquito]

It wouldn't surprise me if the kid has been exposed to numerous R rated movies and video games that promote violence. Sad.

[SuziQ]

Sounds like he had some real anger issues relating to his parents' divorce that were never addressed. Folks think that kids are so resilient, that they can 'get over' a divorce easily, then accept it when a new baby comes along. The kid suspects he's lost his father's love, and now that's reinforced by the presence of the new baby and the father is so happy about the baby that the boy thinks his father will never love him again. So he does the only thing he knows to do, remove the rival for his father's affections.

Stupid, stupid, stupid adults!

[Captain Peter Blood]

There is pure evil in this world and this kid personifies it completely.
At 7 I don't know what kind of charges can be filed and where this kid can be sent. You can bet if he is sent to a juvenile center he will be even more dangerous when he gets out so what is the answer????

[Atheist_Canadian_Conservative]

The water in Florida is ok, right?

[joesnuffy]

Mother Terresa (the Saint not the can o dirts wife)
once remarked that in a nation that has killed over 40 million
pre born children that life would become very cheap..
and easily taken..