Assault with deadly weapon: Girl hits boy with rock.

[javasaurus]

An eleven-year-old girl hit a boy in the head with a two-pound rock. She is being charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon. Thoughts?

Here's the article from WTOPnews.com

Comments

Re: Other people's children...

[javasaurus.livejournal.com]

Apparently this occurred in a poverty stricken, gang and drugs filled violent neighborhood where English is a second language, if known at all.

I'm not sure if that changes, or reinforces your response, but it's not a neighborhood where Nintendo and Reeboks rule kids' minds.

Re: Other people's children...

[rionnkelly.livejournal.com]

No, actually it does reinforce it. I wasn't just speaking to the demographic where having to show up at school in last season's clothes is the kiss of death. It's getting pretty hard to make any kind of a decent living--it's not the luxuries you need to work triple-overtime for, but the basics--food & shelter. In the areas where this particular incident occured, where folks are rolling pennies just to buy macaroni & cheese things get a little more desperate.