Are 1,000 Spankings Enough to Justify a Child Killing His Abuser?
About the 8 year old in Arizona who shot and killed his father and father's boarder: First the cops wanted to try him as an adult. Then, they learned of ledgers that the kid kept of every beating, and that the kid said when it got to 1,000, he would have had enough.
Susan Mernit at Huffington Post breaks down the gruesome and mathematical tally of the beatings -- and their impact on the boy.
It's another case of powerless children in our society with nowhere to turn to. This kid is going to have a unhealthy dose of PTSD as he gets older. Who will be there for him?
Check out Susan Mernit's article on the case today at HuffPo --she's outraged at the parent who was killed. Some snippets below:
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