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A 10-year-old girl is accused of causing the death of an infant from Clinton, Maine, who she was babysitting, WLBZ television reported, citing state police.
Data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics show that 88 children between the ages of 10 and 12 were arrested on murder and non-negligent manslaughter charges between 2003 and 2009. Of them, 14 were girls.
During that same time, seven children under the age of 10 were arrested for similar crimes; one was a girl.
In 2005, a 7-year-old boy from Kentucky was charged with killing his mother’s boyfriend, according to an Associated Press report at the time. He was too young to be tried as an adult and was, at the time, sequestered away from older adults at a juvenile detention facility.
In 2008, an 8-year-old boy from rural Arizona confessed to fatally shooting his father and his father’s friend.
“I went upstairs and then I saw my dad and then I got the gun and then I fired it at my dad,” the boy told prosecutors, according to an ABC News report. “He was on the ground and then I reloaded it.”
These juveniles cannot, according to a recent Supreme Court ruling, be sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.