Kids Who Kill And Too Young To Kill Essay

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ABSTRACT: In society today, homicide rates rise and behind those rates we only see the adults who commit these heinous crimes of violence, but it has trickled down to the children. Throughout the duration of this paper you will see how the children are just as dangerous as the adults, and how it personally has affected my outlook on people. From murderous motives, mental illness, curiosity involving the media, and this idea that the kids are the victims too we see kids trading toys for time. INTRODUCTION: We have all been there, back when playing with Barbie and Ken was our idea of a great time. The times we would wait for the ice cream truck to come around, so we could have a nice cold snack on a hot day outside. It makes you wonder …show more content…

Eric Smith’s case has been mentioned on different documentaries of violent children two of which are Kids Who Kill and Too Young To Kill (A & E, 2017) (A & E, 2017). At his trial in 1994, Smith pleaded not guilty by means of insanity. It all began August 1993, when Eric traded his toys for time. Derrick Robie was a “practical jokester, he would know the ladies were coming up the street and he would lay his rubber snake on the sidewalk” Robie’s mother says in a Special Report with Derrick’s parents (YouTube, 2013). Derrick was just four years old when his mother let him walk to the local summer camp by their house. It was then that Eric Smith lured him into a wooded area and killed him by smashing his head in with a rock before sodomizing his body with a stick. Eric Smith was a boy who was bullied while he was in school and he was tired of it and wanted to show he was in power and in doing so he chose defenseless Derrick Robie as his victim. As of 2017, Eric Smith {now 37} is still in jail and has been denied parole eight times since his conviction. Albeit, there is an argument

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