Boys Injure Mother by Addison Jordan

Summary: Two boys, ages 13 and 14 years old, in Spokane, Seattle have been arrested and placed into custody after being accused of committing a shameful crime. “The boys apparently planned to kill the woman, who was the mother of the 13-year-old boy, and eat her liver,” says Spokane County Sheriff's Deputy Craig Chamberlin.

             The article says the 14-year-old came up with the idea. They were going to rip her open and eat her liver, but instead the older boy beat her with the handle of a sword. Chamberlin believes their original plan was to cut her open, but for some reason, they changed their minds.

            The mother was injured inside her house and two knives and a sword were found nearby. Deputies then went to the house of the 14-year-old boy and his Dad realized his Dodge Durango was missing. Shortly after they checked the house, they got a call about a hit and run involving the stolen Durango. The boys were not found at this scene when the police arrived. Police then received a burglary call. Someone had trashed the burglary scene, but a state trooper sighted the same two boys leaving this burglary scene and arrested them.

            The teens were booked on juvenile charges of second-degree assault, taking a motor vehicle without permission, residential burglary, second-degree malicious mischief and hit-and-run. “Apparently the two kids were on some type of pills that might have been ecstasy, opium, or some type of hallucinogen” stated Chamberlin. Both of the kids have been appointed public defenders.

Analysis: What has life come to for kids to want to do something like this? The mother couldn’t have possibly done anything horrible enough for the boys to plan something so harmful to her. How do you even think of a plan so evil?  This story reinforces the fact that drugs are bad and make you do horrible things. 

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/20/us/teens-attack-mom-spokane/index.html?hpt=us_c2