Vietnamese Kid Straingles Elderly Woman For Gaming Money
There are occasionally news stories that seem so surreal you wonder if they are actually true. In Nam Dinh, Vietnam arrested a 13 year old boy for murder. The boy in question strangled an elderly woman of 81 years with a length of string and buried her in the sand in his front yard. When asked why, the boy responded that he decided to kill the woman so he would rob her and use the money to play online games. The amount taken was 100,000 dong (6.2 USD).
Due to the boy's age, he is not being sent to prison. He is being relocated to a "reeducation camp", where he can be released if he presents with adequate "good behavior".
I'm not sure which is more appalling in this situation, the child's behavior or the Vietnamese policy on child imprisonment. It takes a very adult mind to conspire to kill someone and rob them.
Vietnamese boy, 13, kills woman for money to play video games [Earth times]
[via Destructoid]
Asterick
Posted to Video Games on 20 November 2007
· Comments (6)
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The sad fact of the matter is that the kid was probably deeply disturbed...and would have committed some sort of atrocities eventually...
Precisely, which makes it even more disturbing the fact that the kid will basically get off if he just behaves in the "reeducation" camp.
Well it's sometimes the same here as well in the US too. We have child imprisonment and let them off 10 or so years later for good behavior or even less time.
"I'm not sure which is more appalling in this situation, the child's behavior or the Vietnamese policy on child imprisonment. It takes a very adult mind to conspire to kill someone and rob them."
What the hell? This offends me. First, what conspiracy? Second, the purpose of punishing children differently is that they do not have the cognitive capacity to fully understand their actions. Please understand the gravity of issues like this and think before you talk.
wow 100,000 dongs...
The child in question was 13 years old. That's equivalent to an 8th grader. Are you telling me that someone who could potentially enter high school doesn't know that when you strangle someone that they DIE?
You can argue this sort of thing all day, but the fact that he buried her would probably stand up in court as good evidence that he knew he did something wrong, and therefore had the cognitive capacity to understand his actions.