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A 12-year-old girl in Tennessee has been charged with murder, accused of smothering her 8-year-old cousin as the younger girl slept. A relative said they had been arguing over an iPhone.

A security camera recorded the killing, inside the bedroom they shared on July 15 in Humboldt, Tennessee, the county prosecutor said.

The recording shows the older child using bedding to suffocate her cousin as the younger girl slept in the top bunk, Gibson District Attorney Frederick Agee’s statement said. After the child died, “the juvenile cleaned up the victim and repositioned her body,” Agee said.

A relative told WREG-TV in Memphis that the girls had been arguing over an iPhone after coming from out of town to stay with their grandmother.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Am I the only one that thinks charging her as an adult is a little much? A 12 year old is probably still treatable. Incarceration in our criminal justice system will not accomplish that.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A bit much? She is a child. A very american thing to do... In europe she would get therapy and that's it..

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The younger they are, the longer private prisons get to earn government revenue for their incarceration. 👍🏻

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[–] [email protected] 165 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Is it me or is the newsworthy thing here not the phone but the actual fucking murder?

Children have been arguing about toys for millennia. I got into a few fist fights myself over he-man dolls.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

Why was a security camera in the bedroom? Or was it somewhere else but you could see in the bedroom? Am I the only one who finds this odd, or is this a common thing to have for 12 and/or 8 year olds?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

They're often cheaper and better than "video baby monitors"

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (17 children)

Some people are surveillance'd out. I personally find it weird when people have fuckin Alexa or Google assistant in their house. Like u really want Bezos listening to your every word so u don't have to walk 3 feet to the light switch? Different strokes I guess, but I don't want a doorbell cam n I for sure don't want cam(s) inside my fucking house especially ones connected to multinational conglomerates that are going to use it to spy on me n sell me ads.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago

"after coming from out of town to stay with their grandmother."

I'm assuming this means this was the grandmother's house they were staying at?

I work in hospice and and it's not uncommon for a family member to have multiple cameras set up in an elderly loved ones house for safety reasons. Maybe she wants to remain independent, but is a fall risk. We've had patients refuse in home caregivers, but allow family to put in cameras to watch for falls.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I was also surprised by that, but I'm still surprised people have them in their living rooms. I guess it's like upgrading from a baby monitor??

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

It's getting hard to find a baby monitor that doesn't have a camera.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

No idea, glad it’s not just me I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Who was the genius at apple who came up with a remote-smothering feature?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Obviously they're holding it wrong!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Leonard ‘Pillows’ Anocksia

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (3 children)
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