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Boy, 7, admits killing baby
South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^ | 06/01/2005 | Vickie Chachere

Posted on 06/02/2005 7:43:36 PM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: evil
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To: Ultra Sonic

Is that person Frank Zappa? I remember seeing his two grown children in an interview a number of years ago. They were talking about their father, and the funny names he gave them. The son's name was Dweezel(sp?), and the daughter's name was Moon Unit! Then they laughingly tried to explain what they meant, and why he gave them those uh, unusual names!


41 posted on 06/02/2005 9:27:30 PM PDT by dsutah
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To: cherry

Ever had Lamb curry for passover...oh it's fun...lots of fun. I travel all over the world, and get to see "local" television content. In most all countires, God is mentioned...either someone is praying, or asking for help. It's only here, in US, that God is just missing out in TV land. Why? I hate "Friends."


42 posted on 06/02/2005 9:30:56 PM PDT by USMMA_83 (Tantra is my fetish ;))
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To: elli1

I was just asking another poster if Moon Unit Zappa was the person! I saw an interview with she and Dweezil once. But I thought they were his only children! I guess there were two more. All with weird names!


43 posted on 06/02/2005 9:31:44 PM PDT by dsutah
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To: jess35

You're right.. they should throw the parents in jail for making him a "little sociopath".


44 posted on 06/02/2005 9:39:18 PM PDT by Almondjoy
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To: USMMA_83
While I admire your convictions, I think you are going a bit overboard.

America does not have a culture of death. There is evil, but the country as a whole does not have a culture of death. I don't know where that catch phrase originated, but many people use it much too freely.

Don't bother to try and tell me all about abortions and Terry Schiavo. I understand all that, but more than one half of this country would like to make abortion illegal (including me) and the hugest majority of Americans would not starve a loved one to death.

Also, Friends is a TV show. Please don't waste your time worrying about the eternal souls of Monica, Joey, Chandler, Rachel, Ross, Rachel and Phoebe. They don't exist.
45 posted on 06/02/2005 9:42:41 PM PDT by texasflower (silent_jonny is the only one for me. He's my baby, but Ken5050 is VERY sexy too.)
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To: texasflower

Oh brother, what you don't get is that these TV shows have the power to influence. But, point taken...I guess it's just coninsidental that our "heros" are from hollywood, NFL, NBA, and MLB.


46 posted on 06/02/2005 9:55:46 PM PDT by USMMA_83 (Tantra is my fetish ;))
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To: 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..

Well, that has indeed happened.

47 posted on 06/02/2005 9:58:19 PM PDT by Peace Is Coming
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To: jess35
"The 10 commandments wouldn't have stopped that kid. He's a little sociopath."

School prayer and a spanking cures homocidal insanity; didn't you get the memo?
48 posted on 06/02/2005 9:59:03 PM PDT by NJ_gent (Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.)
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To: Atheist_Canadian_Conservative
The water in Florida is ok, right?

Absolutely.

They don't polute it by drowning little monsters like this in it at the first signs of soulessness.

49 posted on 06/02/2005 11:21:25 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch
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To: AdamSelene235

Then, many, many decades ago--in Florida, no less--there was a gentleman, named by his father, legally named 5/8 Jameson. (Or, perhaps Jaimeson.)

Never did anyone ever find out what the other 3/8 of him were supposed to be.


50 posted on 06/02/2005 11:28:01 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch
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To: Keyes2000mt

Mother of God!


51 posted on 06/02/2005 11:28:43 PM PDT by Petronski (How do you solve a problem like Petronski?)
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To: Petronski
How do you solve a problem like Petronski?

I have no idea, never having witnessed him solve a problem. Maybe someday I'll ask him how he does it.

52 posted on 06/02/2005 11:33:34 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch
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To: NJ_gent; jess35

A proper understanding of the ten commandments might have kept THE PARENTS from such abandonment.


53 posted on 06/02/2005 11:38:23 PM PDT by Petronski (How do you solve a problem like Petronski?)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Well now, I hadn't thought of it that way. You win the prize.


:O)


54 posted on 06/02/2005 11:40:39 PM PDT by Petronski (How do you solve a problem like Petronski?)
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To: QueenBee3

I was fine with everything up until #4. What the hell does it matter what the baby's name was?


55 posted on 06/02/2005 11:42:11 PM PDT by Melas (Really does live in Texas)
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To: Petronski
"A proper understanding of the ten commandments might have kept THE PARENTS from such abandonment."

You say that as though this kid's mother and father didn't know that divorcing each other, abandoning him, and partying at midnight with two kids at home was wrong. There's a difference between knowing and caring. Precisely what would reading/understanding the ten commanding do for two people who obviously don't give a damn?
56 posted on 06/02/2005 11:54:22 PM PDT by NJ_gent (Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.)
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To: NJ_gent
You've got to be kidding.

Precisely what would reading/understanding the ten commanding do for two people who obviously don't give a damn?

The might have given a damn!

You're kidding, right?

57 posted on 06/02/2005 11:55:48 PM PDT by Petronski (How do you solve a problem like Petronski?)
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To: NJ_gent
Good grief, that's pathetic.

Where's the hidden camera?

58 posted on 06/02/2005 11:56:26 PM PDT by Petronski (How do you solve a problem like Petronski?)
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To: Keyes2000mt
The unidentified boy was not taken into custody and is living with his mother in Lakeland while prosecutors make their decision......

I don't think I would sleep too well with this child in the next room.

59 posted on 06/03/2005 3:17:53 AM PDT by Bellflower (A new day is Coming!)
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To: Keyes2000mt
My daughter has an 18 month old half-brother and she loves him dearly. And every time he sees her, his little face lights up. I took her to the hospital to see him on the morning he was born. My ex's wife took pictures of me holding him from her hospital bed. She just emailed me several pictures of him in his little tuxedo.

Divorce is not a good thing. There's no denying that. But most children whose parents are divorced are not murderous little monsters. The extent to which a child suffers from divorce is dependent upon the adults involved. And I bet that divorce is the least of these people's problems.
60 posted on 06/03/2005 5:08:45 AM PDT by SilentServiceCPOWife (A round of ruby red Sharpies for everyone, barkeep.)
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