[squirrely girl]

not too long back we had a 14 year old child shoot and kill his bus driver here in tennessee - i have no problems with this kid being charged as an adult for this crime

at 14 i would *hope* that somebody has an understanding of life and death and the implications of taking one

on the other hand - in the case of abuse... retaliation is perhaps not the appropriate word, but rather self defense(?) *granted i have limited info about this particular child's situation* but i could see where it might be similar to a battered spouse... my greater concern in this would be that this child felt it necessary to murder in the first place. if the child was being abused somebody should have been there to intervene on the child's behalf before it ever got that far - of course that's in the ideal world

- marissa