Boy Attacks Others With Needle
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Updated: 1:37 AM Oct 23, 2009
Boy Attacks Others With Needle
Florida boy allegedly stabs 2 with hypodermic needle.
Posted: 1:37 AM Oct 23, 2009
Reporter: Associated Press
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MARATHON, Fla. (AP) -- An 11-year-old boy has been turned over to
the Department of Juvenile Justice after authorities charged him with stabbing two nine-year-olds with a hypodermic needle and threatening a third one.

The suspect, who was not named by Monroe County Sheriff's officials because he is a minor, was standing in a cafeteria line in school last Thursday.

Monroe County Sheriff's deputies said the suspect stabbed two
kids in the buttocks with a hypodermic needle.

He then chased a third boy, who ran away and hid.

The two victims told a teacher, who found the needle hidden in the suspect's book.

The boy was charged Wednesday with two counts of battery and one
count of assault.

He was booked at the Marathon Detention Center.

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Posted by: WCTV viewer Location: South Georgia on Oct 23, 2009 at 05:34 PM

Where would this child get a needle & why would he be thinking of sticking people with it? Some of these cases just never cease to surprise me. What would prompt a child to stick others with a needle? Too many horror movies, too many violent games, what?
Posted by: Anonymous on Oct 23, 2009 at 02:13 PM

Good! If he hid it he knew what he was doing. Little brat!
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