One thing is certain, respect for others is not a priority in the education of children AT HOME OR IN OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM. 9 years old and already LOST TO SOCIETY. Just because people can have sex AND HAVE CHILDREN does not mean they SHOULD . I hope Mr Sanitoriun can get his bible thumpers to outlaw sex, just like they want to outlaw contraception.

That will be hard for him to do seeing as how he won't get anywhere near the white house oval office.

Alaskagirl, he will get near the oval office. But he'll have to take the White House tour like the rest of us!

Sorry but bad parents raising bad children doesn't mean "Society" is getting violent.

It means that bad parents are bad.

It's true that this incident doesn't mean society is violent. The fact that societies have always been violent means that society is violent.

Whatever happened to tantrums and crying into your pillow?

Lot of colorful characters on this thread... and that is the most polite way I can describe it.

If you are looking to Santorum for a solution you should be committed. Anyone that considers gays as not real people and encourages the influence of Christianity in gov't over every other religion out there completely misses the point of our Constitution. And therefore should not be involved in legislation for it.

Parents and grandparents lay down the law, one gets stabbed in the process and still they are labeled "bad parents"?? Isn't it possible that the girl is just a bad seed? Clearly no one had a problem in telling her "no", seeing as what triggered her rage. But go ahead and speculate despite the facts that were presented in the article. Logic should not have to come into play when opinions are involved. It's a free country afterall..... unless Santorum is elected!

I watched violent movies on HBO and played violent video games when I was 9 and I've never stabbed or assaulted anybody. Maybe her upbringing is to blame.

Not everyone throws tantrums though. In this case, I'm sure something went wrong along the way.

I agree with Joel. I played a lot of violent games and I've never assaulted or stabbed anyone. It's the upbringing of the child that is the issue. Her mother wasn't hard enough on her, imo.

Psychopathic behavior has been shown to exist more frequently in profit driven capitalistic societies rather than societies where selfish behavior for ones own enrichment is not valued over group connectedness. Also there has been some evidence to suggest psychopaths require more stimulation and do not fear violent behavior the way a normal person would. If a psychopath has not been professionally evaluated and treated by the age of 4 or 5 years of age then there isn't much hope that they will ever have any satisfyingly normal life experience. They will find attaining loving relationships extremely difficult and may eventually turn violent due to their isolation. It has been speculated that chemistry in the brain may also may be responsible for the psychopathic personality.

For such a young female to stab someone would indicate that she was either a psychopath or so badly abused that she finally struck out or it could be a combination of both factors.

Still, the percentage of children that do these things is very small and is certainly not an indictment of the rest of the population. We need to stop thinking and judging in headlines.

Leo the studies that I have read are not indictments against Capitalistic societies but observations based on scientific studies. These studies are not a part of the headliner news thriller series. They are honest scientific attempts to understand the psychopathic mind. It has been indicated that in societies where interconnectedness was stressed the psychopathic personality traits are suppressed. That does not mean that there are not as many psychopaths out there they are just not acting out and becoming identified as psychopathic. It would appear however from the study that when young children are not isolated that those with pshychpathic tendacies are less likely to become violent or exhibit criminal behavior.

The USA appears to be a very violent country. Could it be capitalism as a partial cause? The only countries with comparable violence are third world.

Currently the violence in the US is much higher than in other western countries. However in Muslim dominated countries the violence is much higher and I am not talking about altercations between US soldiers and Muslim militants. I am talking about Muslim on Muslim altercations as well as Muslim ethnic cleansing in Africa.

Takenaka,

Yes... Obviously capitalism the blame.... Er wait... Do you even know what capitalism is? Or how much it influences children to commit violent crimes? If so, then did capitalism encourage a child in Kyoto, Japan to behead other child and leave his head on a school's front step?

Yeah, thought so!

fightforfreedom.... how about some reference sources. Psychopathic behavior is higher in capitalistic societies???

Chris Walker Japan is a Capitalistic society but they do stress interconnected societal behaviors. I think if you google the stats you will see that their percentages of crime rate is lower than ours. However I did not say that Capitalism causes psychopathic behavior that was your assumption. I am saying that the study indicated that there was an increased level of this behavior in Capitalistic societies. Why this would be is most like due to the encouragement of the profit motive above moral concerns and the degree of isolation a child experiences as a child as well as any chemical or genetic abnormalities. If you wish to understand what these scientists are getting at I would suggest you and XDm9mm google psychopathic behaviors and educate yourself. Look for scientific studies. I am sure you will find a plethora of available literature to read. You can determine for yourself if these scientists have anything of value to offer you.

Nana-2180798

WOW! We are a very violent society as our children reflect. Time to do a little rethinking on this great social experiment where any one can do any thing, say anything, never be scolded or punished, listen to filthy rap songs, watch violent shows on TV. WOW,WOW,WOW

Filthy rap songs ??? a bit bias aren't we ?

rbkI don't know whether or not Nana has a bias against a particular group of people. Rap is listened and performed by Caucasians Afro Americans Asians and other groups. There is a good deal of Rap music that has a lot of misogynistic lyrics in them. There is a lot of Rap music that advocates and glorifies violence. If someone finds this offensive and unhealthy I don't think you can call that person bias. Unfortunately most Rap music falls into the misogynistic and violent category. That it reflects the environment from which it sprang says a great deal about what a society has become. However embracing it and glorifying it seems to be counterproductive to overcoming the violence in these environments.

I doubt that the other relatives are thrilled to have her.

Exactly, you couldn't pay me enough money to keep a violent person like that in my home. I'd be afraid she'd kill me in my sleep! Put her in juvie.

What I don't get is that a kid shoots another kid in school and they're immediately placed under arrest. But a little girl stabs a woman, and is placed in another location with relatives around other potentially dangerous things so she can do it again?

Cav Raven an excellent observation. The child should be given a complete evaluation before she is just turned loose on another relative. No doubt the defense lawyer will try to keep an evaluation from being done. It could hurt his case.

If this little sociopath was put into my house by authorities, I'd be locking my bedroom door at night after taking all the sharp objects out of the kitchen. Realistically, I wouldn't let her anywhere near my home or family after this. She needs to be with experts, professionals who know how to handle a child as violent as this one. A relative is probably just more of the same situtations, and if someone else ends up injured or dead whose fault would that be?

Other relatives have the right to say no. Even if a child is removed from an abusive home other relatives can say no. I wouldn't have a kid like that in my house either. You don't have to like your relatives and some kids are born bad, too many serial killers who came from typical homes prove that.

What I want to know is who was so careless as to leave a knife unlocked. If it was Grandma's house, then she got what was coming. If it was Mommy's house, then Mommy should be locked up for allowing such a dangerous weapon to get into the hands of a child. Hmmmmm..... Seems like I remember hearing the same arguments about guns. Just like the gun that went off on it's own, the knife is just as dangerous.

@witchrunner - what a dumbass

@witchrunner - do your kitchen cabinets and drawers have locks on them? I don't know about you, but I've never seen kitchen drawers with locks.

You pro-gun nuts always say guns don't kill and only people do. That's so true however it makes so much easier to kill with a gun. Imagine if her dad legally owned a gun and somehow she was able to get a hold of it then a gun then her mother wouldn't be alive today.

You don't have to like witchrunner's point for it to be valid. The fact is a twisted mind can make a weapon out of a Barbie Doll.

Another fact is that locks exist for kitchen drawers and cabinets. Anyone who has properly raised a toddler knows about them. But they wouldn't have helped with a sociopathic older child in the house.

I guess the left believes in only liberal approved weapons. If it is a conservative approved weapon, then the owner should be shot for having it. But, for all those who think what I had to say was dumb, that's exactly how you come across when you criticize guns. In case you haven't figured it out, a person killed by a knife or a lamp is just as dead as a person killed with a gun. If you think the owner of the deadly weapon should be liable, then what the heck difference does it make what the deadly weapon is? But, then again, maybe it would be a money maker to get into the steak knives business and market them as government approved murder weapons. Just following the logic (?) of the libs.

I think I'm the only one who saw sarcasm in Witchrunners post.

Seriously! Would you take a kid in who just stabbed Grammy...?!?! I don't care how closely related, I sure wouldn't! Lock her in somewhere you don't have to sleep with both eyes open.

Natural Born Killers

She wanted to watch Sabado Gigante.

What did you forget to teach your kids when they were little? Your kids are good kids and are disrespectful at times??? Puuulleezzz.

Even the best kids can be disrespectful from time to time, they push the limits to see how far they can get. This kid though, she went from the normal tantrum to trying to murder her Grandma just because of the TV. I don't care the age, this kind of action show a severe behavior problem that deserves more then just a slap on the wrist in family court. Kids now a days have no respect for others or for rules, they do whatever they want because parents just want to be friends and not parents. Not all kids learn by time outs or 'talking' to them, sometimes a good spanking is in order but only as a last ditch effort. There is a line between correctional spanking and beating.

A.K.A.: The Kardashians.

Actually, Teen Mom and its derivatives are WAY trashier.

What does this have to do with stabbing gramma?

maybe she stabbed step-mommy. I would to if she tried to screw me out of 2.6 mil. LOL

Ha, you got that right Alaska girl.........That is nearly as bad as the chief Judge N. L. up here in northern Michigan on the Canadian border who perpetrated his criminal sexual conduct sexually explicit abusive language threats and behavior onto me then hides behind the law in pretense of a DUE PROCESS and Judicial immunity. My mother left everything to me in her LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT but then the probate Judge L. U. went before the jury panel members and made up a story that I mistreated her....... this was done solely to use me as their scapegoat to smokescreen Judge N. L. behavior onto me to protect/preserve their judicial pensions. With accrued interest I lost ONE MILLIONS TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSANDS. And Judge Steven Ford of Newberry, Mi. was on board during jury trial same time frame he was being investigated and convicted of.....well just GOOGLE it, the stuff he perpetrated onto the female courthouse employees at the Mackinac County, Courthouse in St. Ignace, MI. That is not a DUE PROCESS under our constititutional form of government.

My bro. fmr. worldwide magazine publisher of 35----40 different publications including HEARST CORP., TIMES MIRROR INC., President & CEO of Russell Johns Associates Limited largest national USA publishers out of Clearwater, Fla. never came to our mother's funeral, never came to say goodbye to her on her deathbed, never came to visit her when he was between jobs, my sis. a school teacher with a master's degree. She considered them financially secure. I submitted a list of hundreds of trips I took my mother on in the surrounding area, they never took her anywhere, in fact it was the other way around our mother would take her overseas for her abortions. I am left with my social security check of $800 monthly while my sis. and bro. are financially secure. There is no justice in our American system. I knew my bro. had money, he lost a half a million dollar home to his second wife.

What would she have to do before you thought she deserved TWO nights in jail?

Once again I say "The girl is either mentally retarded, or she is going through one of those "Puberty" changes."The girl definitley has a problem, and throwing her in jail is not going to fix that problem.It's going to take a lot of counsoling and parent punishment.

Or having babies in spite of the fact that they don't want them, because they're too lazy or stupid to practice either self- or birth-control. (Imagine a world in which young women practiced both self- and birth-control...I wonder if you can...)

Of course, it's all the mother -- she got pregnant by miraculous conception. How about YOUNG MEN practicing some self/birth control?