Youngest and most evil serial killers in history – What causes a person to want to take the life of another? And at what age does a person have the thought process to want to do such a thing? Since the beginning of time, those are questions that have gone unanswered.
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It appears that the majority of murderers are over the age of eighteen, yet there are children who have gotten the urge to kill and have done so. Records that date back from the early 1920s, state that children as young as six years oldare capable of such horrid crimes against other human beings. Does the upbringing of a child determine whether they will want to murder another? In some cases, it is obvious that a youngster may just be repeating what he (or she) has been brought up to believe is “normal” behavior, yet there are other cases where a child has just simply made a mistake and did not realize the magnitude of their actions. For hundreds of years, society has not known exactly how old a child is when they know exactly what they are doing and how they should be accountable.
It is unclear as to what someone is thinking when they want to kill someone, and it is unfortunate that there are children out there who believe that it is an acceptable comportment. It is not suitable to think that society is to blame, since televisions were not around 100 years ago, and there was no way for children to be “acting out” what they had seen from TV or movies. On the other hand, there are some children who have acted out what they thought was the right thing to do, for fear of what may or may not happen. In May 2014, two twelve year-old girls stabbed another girl because they believed that the fictional character Slenderman, had told them to do so. The girl survived the nineteen times that she was stabbed, and the two were arrested for attempted murder. Most of the youngsters in this article have had dreadful home situations, while others seemed like perfectly normal children. How do we really know what is going through a child’s brain?
13) & 12) Catherine and Curtis Jones, 12 and 13 Years Old
Catherine Jones was just thirteen years old when she decided to tell her younger brother about the abuse that she had been enduring from a close relative. They both had lived with their father and his girlfriend, along with an un-named person who had been abusing Catherine for years. She could no longer keep her secret and after telling her twelve year old brother, Curtis, he confided that he was being abused, as well.
Both children told child welfare workers, their father and their dad’s girlfriend, Nicole Speights, about the abuse. Their mother had left the kids with their father years before, and everyone else that they told did not believe the children’s allegations. So they decided to take matters into their own hands. The kidsplanned to kill their assaulter, along with their dad and his girlfriend, for letting it continue. On a cold morning in early 1999, the children took their dad’s personal gun and fired shots; which killed his girlfriend. They were sentenced to eighteen years in prison and will spend the rest of their lives on probation. They were not given a hearing, and they never got to testify in court. According toUSAToday, Catherine and Curtis were “the youngest children in the country’s history to be charged as adults for first-degree murder.”
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