Eight-Year-Old Boy Kills Six-Year-Old Sister in Nighttime Joyride Crash

Condolences to the family and I hope charges aren't pressed against the mother because they're under her responsibility.

• Source: CBS News
• Published: 8/29/2013

 

I think the first question that comes to my head is "how the heck did they even manage to get the car working"? I have not seen an 8-year old even understand how to turn on a car, much less drive the thing. In fact, they would have had to know to put it in reverse, and that's another thing I'm sure would be hard for an 8-year old to actually understand doing in a car.

 

I don't think they'll press charges. It's not like she handed them the keys and said 'have at it'. This is another one of those terrible tragedies. The sad thing is the boy is going to have to live with it for the rest of his life.

My condolences.

Yes because children can now use small devices to talk, text, play games on, and do just about anything but driving a car is impossible. From the context of your message it does appear you find it impossible for an eight year old to start and operate a vehicle. Well, you're wrong. It's improbable. If you'd take the time to look you'd see countless children have taken joy rides in their parents vehicles. One case comes to mind in which a girl was actually driving her inebriated father around in his vehicle, and doing a good job at it I might add. She was only nine years old by the way.

Girl Drives Dad To Station

For above reasons, it's not unlikely that the boy knew how to put the car in reverse. For lack of more information, I did indeed check the website, there's no way of knowing if the boy even had to put it in reverse. The car might have been backed into the driveway or parked in the street, as commonly seen in suburbs or any township for that matter. As a follow up, I'd like to say that if the boy knew that D meant drive then by reason he would also know that R meant reverse. I'm not sure myself, again for lack of information, but I'd have to assume this is plausible.

It doesn't really matter how he got the car working or if he had to use reverse, what matters is he did. It is a factual event that occurred in which a terrible tragedy followed. Asking questions as to the how or why isn't really necessary seeing that it already is.

Rather than ask how it happened, it would have been a little decent to at least show some form of concern or sadness, for the mother who just lost her daughter and the boy who inadvertently killed his sister, in your post. I'm not saying that's a requirement or anything, just that it would've been nice.

 

I didn' t expect you to say something like this. It would be nice ? How ? For who ? The mum who' ll probably never ever read this thread (and that' s assuming she gives a flying **** about anyone' s grief but her own right now) ? Knowing the how and why it happened on the other hand might help you to prevent this to ever happen to your kids.

I think most people give their condolences just because they' ve been told it' s the right thing to do. Sorry, the "nice" thing to do. It' s just useless etiquette to me. Doesn' t bring back the dead, never diminished my pain, and if it' s sincere it' s written all over your face anyway.

 

Actually, a lot of kids learn how to drive from their parents younger than the legal age. My dad taught my bro how to drive when he was eight and even drove us home once down the street. (Yeah, my dad's also insane, I know.)

There's also a lot of places where I live where you learn how to drive at a young age to help out at the farm. You drive around on the property to help take care of it. I'm not saying this is the case, hell there was a kid a short time ago who knew how to pull over on a freeway when his grandmother had a heart attack. Kids know how to drive now younger and younger, it's a fact of life.

Though it doesn't make this less tragic. My condolences to the family.

 

Who said you actually needed to post about feeling sorry for the person for you to actually feel sorry? I was posting a question about the events because it seemed important. Even if I don't post something like "My condolences", or "I feel so sorry for the family", what does that mean? That I have no feelings and that I don't give a crap? No, it just means that's not what I'm thinking about when I'm posting. What happened is sad sure, but I've seen plenty of these to just know that it's a sad world where these things happen, and we can't change it; we can feel sorry and express that towards the people who lost their family members, but I'd rather know how it happened and why instead of saying something like "Oh wow, this is terrible, I can't believe this happened" every single time we hear someone dies. It honestly gets annoying to me, because I sound like a broken record, and I'd rather say what's on my mind instead of put a sad face on whenever we hear something we've heard a million times.

 

Its strange how some kids arnt even kids anymore, i've read that 11 year olds raped a girl and stole a car. and another that an 12 year old was going to be a dad :o

My younger brother is 11 and there is no way he could do any of that. hes a very childish CHILD. unfortunately due to how society is and how open information is, children are no longer having childhoods, nobody goes and plays on the local park. they just go out and kill poeple

 

How can you even be a dad at age 12? While I know that on average males begin puberty at ages 11-12, I don't think sperm is developed until around age 14. I could be wrong, though.

 

Now i think about it, it ended up not being that boy it was another boy of 14 years

wait 13.... heres the link maybe
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...ie-with-girlfriend-Chantelle-Steadman-15.html

 

Oh, wow...

Do they know how old the girl he was with was?

 

At age 8 they should have enough common sense to know not to sneak out of the house and operate this machine that is, presumably, beyond their comprehension (although apparently not on both counts). Or maybe I should say, at age 8 the parents should have already impressed enough common sense into their children to know not to do this. Though the mother (assuming that it happened as the OP said) clearly didn't know what was going on, it's hard to not find her in some way responsible for what happened. I never left my house in the middle of the night to go drive my parents car. I never could have gotten away with it. I'm not saying it's the mothers fault entirely, but she should take responsibility. Also, at the risk of sounding extremely crass, in some "serves him right" sort of way, it's hard for me to feel sympathetic at all for this kid. I'm not saying I'm glad his sister died to teach him a lesson, but in my opinion, better this than he get away with it without any consequences and continue to even more dangerous behavior as he grows older. Yes, it's tragic she died, but it is his fault she's dead, and I don't feel sorry for the kid.

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...is-NOT-father-of-baby-he-thought-was-his.html

It's a false alarm it turns out he wasn't the father.....it was a different boy. of 14 years of age

she was 15 years old

 

I feel like this could have been avoided if more care had been taken. That being said though, I do give my condolences to the grieving family.

 

The same way a 5 year old girl can have a baby, some people can mature very quickly..... But on the subject, it is sad and can happen anywhere, kids aren't as stupid as we think they are.. I for one could escape out of my house as a kid no matter how hard my mum hid the keys, so who's to say the boy didn't already had some knowledge on how to drive a car?

 

It's such a shame this had to happen to a family like this.

It really does bring up questions and concerns. Kids nowdays are dying from unnecessary situations now (getting shot, car crashes, ect) and it makes me want to fear that if this is just the start, how much more could befall on children 10 years from now? Whatever the case, parents should be more stern on teaching their children on what not to do. Without discipline, children will become lax and start to follow what is on their minds.

 

I know this is going to sound mean, but I'm sure kids have died from much worst then being shot. At least with that there is a chance they could live. If you look at history you would see how some kids have died in much worst way