Comments on: 8-Year-Old In Cuffs At Murder Hearing

Arizona Boy Charged With Shooting Dad, 2nd Man; Abuse Charges Fly

[Froman08]

And with the increased gun purchases over the election of President Obama...I suspect we will be hearing alot more stories like this one.

If your going to have guns in your home with kids...at least have some intelligence and lock them up.

[garoo2]

We have had guns in our house all our lives, and we were taught to repect guns. We wern''t allowed to play with them because they were not toys. They were to protect the family with and to go hunting. Even toy guns , if you were caught even looking like you were pointing it at someone, you got your but beat. What''s wrong with this world is people don''t want the responsibility of raising their own and teaching them right from wrong!!! Yes I have a right to bear arms and I''M DAM PROUD!!!!!

[mbrantley38]

NO ONE KNOWS IF THIS YOUNG BOY COMMITED THIS CRIME. ALL THEY KNOW IS THERE WAS A CONFESSION BY AN 8 YEAR OLD WITH NO ATTORNEY OR LEGAL GUARDIAN PRESENT. HOW DO WE KNOW THIS LITTLE BOY REALLY CONFESSED. THERE IS NO PROOF OF A CONFESSION!

[mbrantley38]

NO ONE KNOWS IF THIS YOUNG BOY COMMITED THIS CRIME. ALL THEY KNOW IS THERE WAS A CONFESSION BY AN 8 YEAR OLD WITH NO ATTORNEY OR LEGAL GUARDIAN PRESENT. HOW DO WE KNOW THIS LITTLE BOY REALLY CONFESSED. THERE IS NO PROOF OF A CONFESSION!

[bush_mcsame]

The sickness of American society is reflected in the fact that they can have an 8 year not only on trial, but in CUFFS even! Degraded.

Repubes are people who believe simultaneously in two things:
1] Guns don''t kill people. 2] Condoms force teens have se-x
So, in one case a lifeless object changes behavior, but in the other case not? How''s that again?

Let''s do an experiment: Let''s give 8 year olds guns, and see how many of them are still alive at years end.

Do you think Cho, a tiny 5 foot-something guy, would''ve been able to kill THIRTY-TWO people without a gun? Of course not.

[bush_mcsame]

The sickness of American society is reflected in the fact that they can have an 8 year not only on trial, but in CUFFS even! Degraded.

Repubes are people who believe simultaneously in two things:
1] Guns don''t kill people. 2] Condoms make teens have ***.
So, in one case a lifeless object in behavior, but in the other case not? How''s that again?

[ljb6599]

Does this boy have a problem in his brain?? Should we look????

[batman2888]

As I see with many post, jump on me all you want. I have not seen anything about sexual abuse and tho it may be possible that he was abuse, that doesn''t change the fact he killed two people. Age has nothing to do with it. 8 or 80, this kid killed two people without thinking. He deserves to be treated like an adult. Kids today have the means and the ability to do things like this without fear of consequence because the government raises them now.

[hatemorons]

What simian, low-IQ redneck types could be so evil as to charge any 8 year old with murder? Clearly, they''re all double-wide inhabiting, simpering and twitching geriatrics who can''t get conjugal thrills at home anymore (wife has dementia, is frequently seen at midnight running through the streets of Flagstff in an open robe and whose hair smells like it''s never had a shampoo) so they resort to an attempt at lynching a child.

[neonink]

On Halloween night 1963, six-year-old Michael Audrey Myers stabs his seventeen-year-old sister Judith to death with a large kitchen knife at their home in Haddonfield, Illinois. Almost immediately after, his mother and father arrive home and find him in a trance-like state. They send him to Smith''s Grove - Warren County Sanitarium and he is placed under the care of child psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis.
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I can see next year''s box office smash at Halloween.

[mollydtt]

No one has any idea why this happened.

I seems reasonable, however, that if the father had been abusing his son, he wouldn''t have bent over backwards to make sure said kid had a lethal weapon at his disposal--and the knowledge of how to use it. Think about it....

At any rate, a lawyer should have been provided. Providing a parent is hard when one is dead, the other is in another state and one is a step parent.
I just don''t buy the idea that this is "obviously" a case of parental abuse.

[slim1h2o]

...a psychiatric evaluation, not a lawyer....

Posted by mjlewis6 at 01:16 PM : Nov 11, 2008

HE DOESN''T NEED A LAWYER?....***!

He''s already had 3 of his rights trampled on, his right to an attorney while questioning, His right to have a parent present while questioning or a guardian. And his Miranda rights were not read to him, prior to questioning.

The 1st thing he needs is a lawyer. Sheesh...

[albrightw]

Try to understand this, The boy wants to be with his real mother. If he eliminates his father, he feels he will be placed with his real mother. If his real mother was on the ball, the gun would not be available to him. The emotional distance between the boy and the step mother must be considerable.

[lpgideon]

Ya know, why would teaching of how to safely use a rifle be any different than a parent teaching infants to swim safely. Both I would think are critical in the child''s understanding of dangers that are around him. That said, I wonder just how one trained in the safety of the rifle would dare use it the way he is accused.

[ljb6599]

Could something be wrong with the child''s brain????

[earache4]

Hrm, last time I looked I didn''t see anything on the NRA website stating to please go kill your parents execution style, whatever age you are. Jacknut....get a life. It''s not the NRA''s fault.
Posted by yourpointis at 12:08 PM

It''s in the fine print next to the article about what gun you should buy your mentally unstable pre-teen....

[hatemorons]

I repeat: only in a right-wing, backwater toilet bowl such as Arizona (where of course McBackwater''s from)could anyone even entertain so crazy a notion as arresting an 8 year old and attempting to charge him as an adult. I live in Minneapolis and here at least it''s hip, urbane, vibrant--we don''t arrest kids that age here. Further, I challenge anyone to show me evidence of small children being "psychopaths" or "serial killers". You bloodthirsty right-wingers out there better stay the hell away from Minneapolis, San Francisco and New York!

[eggy1620]

The story goes that the dad was eager to give his son a rifle. Doubt that abuse was going on. Only a certified moron would give his victim a weapon.

[kaybee2121]

centerfalls93 you are without a doubt a brainwashed person who thinks about taking away guns...only the crooks and mental cases will have guns then.

[usclimey]

Thanks to the NRA this child is no longer a victim of sixual abuse from his gay father and lover.

Posted by yongamerica

You are kidding, right?