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

Other people's children...

[rionnkelly.livejournal.com]

I see this as being just one more bit of evidence that somethin's gotta give somewhere. People say this wouldn't happen if parents parented better. Parents might be able to parent better if the cost of supporting the life they want for their children weren't so expensive as to require both parents to work outside the home. The cost of living to support that life wouldn't be so high if people would just freakin' relax and not get so caught up in the competitivenes and acquisitiveness that seems to have been adopted by our culture.

Don't have any answers on how to make it better, just my observations.

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.