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| Boy, 8, Beat Baby to Death to Stop |
| Boy, 8, Beat Baby to Death to Stop Her Crying: Police
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 12-November-2015
11:15:43 AM |
| An eight-year-old boy beat a baby girl to death to stop her crying while her mother was out partying at a nightclub, US police said Wednesday, charging him with murder.
The boy was one of several children left alone for hours in a Birmingham, Alabama home last month, in what experts said was a rare case of a child so young being prosecuted.
"Since becoming a police officer over 22 years ago, this is by far one of the saddest cases I have witnessed in my career," Birmingham police spokesman Lieutenant Sean Edwards told AFP.
The incident happened at the home of a friend of the baby's mother, whom police have identified as 26-year-old Katerra Lewis.
She has been charged with manslaughter over what Edwards called "reckless" actions.
Police said Lewis left her one-year-old, Kelci, together with several children aged two to eight, while she and her friend went out clubbing.
The children - six in total, according to local media -- were left unsupervised while Lewis and the friend were gone from roughly 11:00 pm until 2:00 am.
"It is believed that while the mother and friend were at the club, the eight-year-old viciously attacked the one-year-old because the one-year-old would not stop crying," police said in a statement.
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