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A 12-year-old girl in Tennessee has been charged with murder, accused of smothering her 8-year-old cousin as the younger girl slept. A relative said they had been arguing over an iPhone.

A security camera recorded the killing, inside the bedroom they shared on July 15 in Humboldt, Tennessee, the county prosecutor said.

The recording shows the older child using bedding to suffocate her cousin as the younger girl slept in the top bunk, Gibson District Attorney Frederick Agee’s statement said. After the child died, “the juvenile cleaned up the victim and repositioned her body,” Agee said.

A relative told WREG-TV in Memphis that the girls had been arguing over an iPhone after coming from out of town to stay with their grandmother.

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[–] Carrolade 80 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Am I the only one that thinks charging her as an adult is a little much? A 12 year old is probably still treatable. Incarceration in our criminal justice system will not accomplish that.

[–] Dorkyd68 50 points 4 months ago (1 children)

She's about to spend a ton of time in the system either way. Whether that be juvi or somewhere else. This kid will not reemerge a rehabilitated individual. In the system you simply learn to be a better criminal, rehabilitation is myth

[–] SendMePhotos 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Dorkyd68 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Pregnenolone 39 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The younger they are, the longer private prisons get to earn government revenue for their incarceration. 👍🏻

[–] TheSealStartedIt 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A bit much? She is a child. A very american thing to do... In europe she would get therapy and that's it..

[–] piecat 1 points 4 months ago

Why even bother separating the two if prosecutors try them as adults anyway

[–] Doodleschmit 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I definitely agree that whatever decision the courts make, this person is not going to be properly rehabilitated via the sentence.

I obviously have no expertise in the matter, but I really do wonder what the appropriate "consequence" would be for something like this. They're still a child, basically at 12. But they committed to doing something VERY permanent. Do they have any understanding for what it is they've done? I would think they have a semblance of it. Emotions, hormones, and everything about a pre-pubescant can run hot at those ages, but this was an egregious failure for self control.

I'm very likely just being a fence sitter about it. Murdering someone over something petty like this would be an obvious charge for an assumed adult. Just hard to wrap my head around it when I see news like this I guess.