Inside Creative House/iStock/Getty Images Plus A six-year-old shoots his teacher in class, a 12-year-old fatally stabs her younger brother just before midnight, a 10-year-old murders his mother because she wouldn’t buy him a virtual-reality headset. This is just a sampling of our time’s heinous preteen crimes.
All three incidents occurred just recently, too.
Yet are these mere outliers and coincidences? Or do they reflect a troubling trend?Homicide cases in American juvenile courts did rise by 35 percent between 2014 and 2018, the Department of Justice informed in a 2020 report. The spike was eyebrow-raising because it coincided with a period during […]
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