Today’s Noisy Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
A 5-year-old girl admitted drowning an 18-month-old boy in the bathtub because he was noisy. The victim, Jermaine Johnson Jr., died Friday, June 3, 2011, in Kansas City, Mo. in what police at first believed was a tragic accident. But the 5-year-old girl later admitted to a social worker she killed Jermaine, saying she did not like the toddler and found him too noisy. Jermaine, who lived in the St. Louis area, had been staying with a relative in Kansas City. Police said he, the 5-year-old and other children were left in the care of a mentally disabled 16-year-old girl while an adult went to pick someone up at the bus. Police said they are unsure how to proceed with a 5-year-old homicide suspect.
Culled from: UPI
Generously submitted by: Aimee
Whenever I read a story like this, I always think… how would you, as a parent, react to the child who killed your other child? I mean, on the one hand, bad girl, BAD GIRL!!!! She definitely gets put on a very long time out for something like this!
But on the other hand, the kid was noisy… 😉
This is hysterical! I think I’ve had this motive numerous times, but that kid had the guts to act upon them. How do you punish a 5 yr old for murder? Send her to Juvie until she’s too old to remember what she did?
A noisy guest at that, not a permanent member of the household. From what I read later on, the little boy’s baby-daddy was coming to pick him up and take him back home to St. Louis, and the adult in charge of this batch of kids had left to pick him up at the bus station. At midnight, no less.
The whole thing is disturbing, but one of the most disturbing elements is that this girl didn’t even try to lie and cover up the bad thing she did, like even good kids usually do. I mean, she didn’t say “We were just playing and he fell down in the water” or “I was trying to give him a bath…” Just comes right out and admits she drowned him on purpose because he got on her nerves.
A 5 year old doesn’t understand death like we do. Doesn’t get that it’s a forever thing. I understand her motivation and why she didn’t lie. She didn’t see any wrong in her actions. He was noisy…lol! Thought she was doing a good deed. I would call it a tragic accident and hope the girl does forget she did this…Untill she’s old enough to appreciate it.
I think the fact that you all think this to be funny is more tragic than the original story.
A looong time ago before I had kids, when my husband and I had time to tv made for adults, I saw a program on Frontline that detailed a case of a five/six year old boy who ran into a neighbors house,took an infant out of a bassinet and kicked it a few times. Obviously the infant died. The program focused on the fact this boy had several family members in jail, his unwed mother had frequently been abused by her boyfreinds-sometimes with him in the room. I agree a five year old may not understand death, but they do understand bodily harm.
I remember that case, I was in college when it was in the news. If I recall, he beat up the baby as a kind of revenge against another kid in the family, there was some kind of argument about a stolen bicycle.
As for her not lying about what she did, I don’t ascribe that to her not knowing that she’d done a bad or permanent thing. After all, kids lie about things that really were accidents, and often claim things were accidents when they weren’t. This girl didn’t do that.
I don’t see a very bright future for her, honestly. She needs a different home environment, for sure, but would you be able to trust her around other children, especially ones smaller than herself?
What she did isn’t something that she or anybody else can fix in any way. The little boy is dead. She caused his death. Can she ever be trusted completely again?
that is tragicly sad..
A frightening little child.I asked myself that same question along with most of the residents in my city. When Karla Homolka killed her sister.
It’s probably a very difficult question and until you are in the ituation you really wouldn’t know. Hopefully no one here will ever have to deal with that one.
M.
@Lori
There are some kids Lori form all the reading and research I have done on this subject. Some children are pyschopaths. Most aren’t be some do know more then the avaverage kid of what they are doing. Not like an adult of course but we should not under estimate them. ” Bad seeds”.
She didn’t hit to kid to quite him but drowned him.
M.
You don’t have to know all about the mechanics of drowning to be able to deliberately drown somebody.
@Aimee
Can we all agree the kids has issues…. lol
Happy Independence day!
M.