8 Year Old Arizona Boy Kept List Of Spankings

  Those big dinners are all eaten and the football games is on.

   Back to reality.

   the Arizona Republic

An 8-year-old St. Johns boy charged with double-homicide may have kept a written record of spankings by his parents, vowing that the 1,000th would be his limit, according to a police records released Friday.

A search affidavit by Sgt. Lucas Rodriguez says the child "is believed to have made ledgers and or communicated in the form of writings about his intentions. (The boy) told a CPS . . . worker that when he reached one thousand spankings . . . that would be his limit. (The boy) kept a tally of his spankings on a piece of paper."

In a statement to police a day after the Nov. 5 killings, the boy said he had been spanked the day before the shootings because he did not complete a school assignment.

According to the police records, family members were not surprised when told one day after the slayings that the boy had confessed to murder. Police Chief Roy Melnick says in his report, "I comforted them as best we could. After several minutes, (the boy's grandmother) shouted out in an angry and loud tone, 'I knew this would happen. They were too hard on (the boy). I knew (he) did it. He spent the night in my bed cuddling up to me. I had a feeling he did it. If any eight year old boy is capable of doing this, it's (him).'

One day after the killings, the boy gave police a statement which they have characterized as a confession. In it, he provided various explanations for what had happened, finally declaring that he had shot his father and the other man twice each to stop their suffering after they had been wounded by an unknown person.

    This story gets more interesting by the day. from the above article, it would seem that the police are still not sure why the boys killed the two men.

    Did the boy finally get his 1,000th spanking and then decide that enough is enough? That could be reason for killing his father, but what about the other man? Did the second victim make an attempt to help the father after he was shot, and then suffered the same fate?

     The boy claimed originally that he shot both men twice to put them out of their misery after being shot by someone else. Ain't no way that that happened.

   If the boy did receive 1,000 spankings by the time he reached the age of 8, then he was either one very rotten child or daddy was one very rotten child abuser.

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