Cont. 12 yr old boy beats toddler.
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:03 am
Interesting to see that 63% of the votes are for treating him as an adult offender.
Its good that you posted the story. Gives a broad view of everything. Its awful to think of a 12 year old being sentenced to life in prison. At first, only the suffering baby was in my mind. Which is exactly why angry mobs sometimes come together. Reading the story made me think that it is only by the grace of God that one of my sons didnt wind up hurting someone. As a single mom... not by choice, they were left alone, often. My older son was 14, and the younger one 10. They were angry, and they were hurt, that their lives had been uprooted, and their dad was gone. They were by no means sociopaths... but they were often incorrigible. The younger one always lacked an understanding of consequences for actions. ( He does till this day)
The use of a baseball bat seems quite deliberate. That is the problem. Even if he had swung it, in anger, and hit the baby. That would have been unfortunate, but more understandable. I would say that at the least this boy needs to be observed in a psychiatric facility for a very long time.