14 Year Old Girl Stabbed Her Little Sister 39 Times For Being Ungrateful

[Xeno]

Girl, 14, 'stabbed little sister 39 times because she didn't appreciate everything she had done for her'

A 14-year-old girl has been charged as a juvenile with first-degree murder after allegedly stabbing her little sister in their Chicago home on Tuesday morning.

The 11-year-old victim, who not been named, had more than 30 stab wounds across her neck, chest and arms, and three slashes to her face.

The teenage suspect initially claimed a stranger had broken in, but she allegedly confessed after police revealed they had found a strand of the killer's hair in the victim's hand.

At a hearing today, the girls' mother wept as prosecutors claimed that the older girl had set her alarm early and made her attack while her little sister was still in bed in their Mundelein home.

Using a kitchen knife, the teenager is said to have stabbed her half-sister 39 times while yelling that the younger girl didn't appreciate everything that she did for her.

The older girl said she had made dinner six times that week and that her sister made her mad after hitting her the night before, the Chicago Sun Times reported.

Their mother was out of the home at the time of the attack, which happened at about 7.50am.

Wearing a gray prison shirt, the girl sat stone-faced during the hearing and left quickly when it was over, as her mother sat at the same table, but without looking at her, the Chicago Tribune reported.

This is a really shocking story. It isn't often that young girls commit brutal murders. The older girl said that she was angry because her sister didn't appreciate the fact that she had cooked dinner for her and done her chores. That sounds like a normal sibling fight, but there's nothing normal about slashing a little sister to death. There have to be some deeper emotional illness involved for the teenager to slaughter the child like that. Even if she isn't charged as an adult the state should make sure that she's locked up for as long as possible. There's no cure for that kind of crazy.

 

[DarkSentinel]

Well, that's, uh…hm…well…

What in the actual flying monkeys do I say to that?

 

[antondlt]

Well, wow. Being ungrateful like that, I'd expect a few words and flying pillows from my sister here and there, but straight-out stabbing? :|

 

[Octoberist]

Awful.

 

[Schlosser85]

Um, sociopath?

Honestly, it's probably best in situations like these to just execute her.

What's the alternative? A lifetime of costing taxpayers money behind bars or in a psychiatric hospital?

You can't cure sociopathy.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Plus One to what Schlosser says. I'm a rare pro-capital punishment liberal, precisely because of cases like this.

 

[Asgard]

Execute a 14 year old. What are we monsters? Its sick that your reasoning for wanting her killed is because of money.

The girl will be in prison for the rest of her life so that will be enough to keep the public safe.

 

[Xeno]

Plus One to what Schlosser says. I'm a rare pro-capital punishment liberal, precisely because of cases like this.

Um, sociopath?

Honestly, it's probably best in situations like these to just execute her.

What's the alternative? A lifetime of costing taxpayers money behind bars or in a psychiatric hospital?

You can't cure sociopathy.

Killing a child who is quite probably mentally ill would be an even worse crime than the one she committed. Fortunately, executing children has been recognized as cruel and unusual punishment in this country so there will be no such barbaric punishment for this girl. In fact, I'm pretty sure that life without parole is out of the question as well. Only sick societies kill their children.


She is ill in some way and deserves to be incarcerated and hopefully treated for many years, however. There has to be something profoundly wrong with her. She isn't someone who can be released at the age of 21 with no supervision, as she would be if tried as a juvenile. Perhaps with proper treatment she can improve to the point where she doesn't require incarceration. Perhaps not. But that won't be known until her condition is evaluated.

 

[Marvolo]

Disturbing doesnt begin to cover it. The girl is sick and obviously has some psychological issues. We dont know. And she needs a shrink to suss through the mess that must be her emotional state.

Anddddd maybe a priest of the holy roman rite should follow her around...

My thoughts go out to the parents and the victim. Jesus this is just...im really at a loss here. Her poor parents must be in a total state of shock.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Killing a child who is quite probably mentally ill would be an even worse crime than the one she committed.

No. No, it wouldn't. And we can wait until she's an adult.

She is ill in some way and deserves to be incarcerated and hopefully treated for many years, however. There has to be something profoundly wrong with her.

Yes. She's a sociopath. Enough with the coddling.

She isn't someone who can be released at the age of 21 with no supervision, as she would be if tried as a juvenile. Perhaps with proper treatment she can improve to the point where she doesn't require incarceration. Perhaps not. But that won't be known until her condition is evaluated.

Are you kidding? She should at the very least never see the light of day again.

 

[KevanG]

Honestly, I don't really have anything to say about this besides send her away for good. If you can do this at that age and not feel remorse then you should not be free to walk around with other people.

 

[Marvolo]

No. No, it wouldn't. And we can wait until she's an adult.




Yes. She's a sociopath. Enough with the coddling.



Are you kidding? She should at the very least never see the light of day again.

You cant possibly know what is wrong with this child's mental health. Lets wait for a trained psychiatrist to examine her before we go taking the life of another human being. Two wrongs dont bring the victim back to life. Thats done. All yhat can be done is to figure out what went wrong and try to fix the cause.

People do bad **** and regret it later in life. At 14 the human brain is very vulnerable and a soup of hormones. You tack on a mental illness or instability and youve got a potential nightmare. When she's 20 or 30 she may be in a different state and greatly regret this and be rehabilitated. Point is she's too young to just right off no matter how heinous the crime was that she committed. She isnt set in her ways and there is plenty of time to see if she can be helped and made better. If she was a fully matured adult who had little chance of helping then maybe id be ok with locking her up and throwing away the key. Call it coddling if you want to, but she's too young to give up on.

Also, as bad as it is I doubt the parents want to lose another child even if the one they have left is sick and broken. If she can be helped they probably want her helped. I know i wouldnt want to see my child locked in hole and forgotten about. Id want her to get help.

 

[Xeno]

No. No, it wouldn't. And we can wait until she's an adult.




Yes. She's a sociopath. Enough with the coddling.



Are you kidding? She should at the very least never see the light of day again.

There is no "waiting until a child is an adult" to execute them, or even to try them and impose the death penalty. It is unconstitutional. Period. Not to mention inhumane, barbaric and against the laws of civilized society.


We do execute the mentally ill in this country for crimes committed because of their illnesses, unfortunately. We do not, however, execute persons who commit murder while under the age of 18 any longer. When the Supreme Court ruled such executions unconstitutional in 2005 it brought the US in line with most other industrialized nations. If it makes you feel better, prior to 2005 the US had the largest number of people executed for crimes committed while underage and was one of only six nations that killed juvenile offenders. Not that flouting international law and going against common decency is something to be proud of.


There are circumstances in which someone who is convicted of a crime but underage and mentally ill can be held indefinitely until deemed well enough to be released. In extreme cases, that day never comes. There are also treatments that can help even severely ill people improve significantly. She will remain ill for life but there is always the possibility that she can be helped.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

I feel for the parents, because truly they lost both children. I don't know what drove the teen to kill, sociopathy likely of course, but I doubt they ever look at the older daughter the same way.

A could questions though. I know it's not unusual to start leaving kids alone around 11 or 12, especially with an older sibling, but why was the teen always cooking dinner? It doesn't really make it clear if the parents were present or she was basically a secondary caretaker for the sister while the parents worked. It's not a reasonable motive for murder, the teen is clearly crazy, but I just have to question certain parts of this.

 

[Teelie]

Executing someone is more costly than keeping them in prison for life. It doesn't make sense until you realize how much money it takes to go through the courts to execute a person. It isn't cheap.

I'm not against the death penalty but it needs to be properly applied, not just someone killed someone else, let's kill them. Clearly that hasn't deterred anyone from killing anyone else or we wouldn't have a high murder rate.

 

[NickNitro]

why, why does this have to be the first article I see this morning

 

[Destructus86]

Obviously this is another case of mental disorder that went unchecked...

 

[kane9321]

my god

 

[Feenix]

Execute a 14 year old. What are we monsters? Its sick that your reasoning for wanting her killed is because of money.

The girl will be in prison for the rest of her life so that will be enough to keep the public safe.

That's not necessarily true.

On June 25, 2012, the Supreme Court issued an historic ruling in Miller v. Alabama and Jackson v. Hobbs holding that mandatory life-without-parole sentences for all children 17 or younger convicted of homicide are unconstitutional

She'll get out eventually. The girl clearly has mental issues. Whether or not they can be "cured" is another story.

Seems like too much of a risk to let her out. 14 years old is old enough to know what you're doing and have a conscience behind it.

 

[thalidomide]

Let's blame gta.

 

[Breogan]

Similar - http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/15/justice/california-stabbing-death/

Curious those wiling to execute 12 - 14 year olds, would you be able to do it yourself?
Or are you just asking others to do it for you?

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Similar - http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/15/justice/california-stabbing-death/

Curious those wiling to execute 12 - 14 year olds, would you be able to do it yourself?
Or are you just asking others to do it for you?

(a) I'd wait until she's an adult.

(b) Do you eat meat? If so, I assume you slaughter out all your own pigs, chickens, cows and lambs, right? Or do you just ask others to do it for you? That question is about as logical as your question was.

 

[charl_huntress]

This is incredibly sad. I hope the system is able to provide help to the child, but it sounds like there is more going on with this family. Strangely, what occurred most to me is where were the mother and father? The older sister cooked dinner and seemed to be the main caregiver for her younger sister.

 

[Breogan]

(a) I'd wait until she's an adult.

(b) Do you eat meat? If so, I assume you slaughter out all your own pigs, chickens, cows and lambs, right? Or do you just ask others to do it for you? That question is about as logical as your question was.

The question was just one I've sometimes asked myself.
If someone harmed anyone of my family, friends anyone I love, I can see myself taking action - killing if it meant protecting.
And even in the heat of it still going as far as taking revenge after the fact.
And I wonder how far i would take that?
Would I stop if the face of the killer/attacker was revealed to be a child.

And I think I personally would stop there. But I'm not sure, if I could save someone I'd be pushed to to kill . But doing it after the fact is different, I don't think I could do it.
So asking the state or anyone to do that (knowing they were children) is something I won't do.

Now you are saying you'd wait till they are adults to execute them, which is somewhat different to what I responded to.

Another similar - http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/20140225/father-13-year-old-confesses-to-killing-2-year-old-sister

 

[Ajendo]

People need to stop making ****ing excuses for others. What the girl did was not normal behaviour but that doesn't mean she's mentally ill or whatever; what she did was a premeditated act of evil and she should be punished and licked away for her heinous crime. God, this whole world has gone to the dogs. The sooner Armageddon comes the better.