A group of girls decided to murder a fifteen year old girl that one considered to be a rival for her 16 year old boyfriend. They invited her over to one girl’s house and upon arrival, they began beating on her and tying her up. They took here to an area with a shallow hole that they told her was going to be her grave. They beat her with sticks and stabbed her with a machete. The girl was able to finally break free and some people nearby helped her while the attackers tried to cover up their tracks.
Apparently, the four suspects, all girls between thirteen and sixteen years of age, lured the fourteen year old victim to one of their houses by telling her a party was going on. They had dug a shallow grave in the yard to dispose of the victim, and then proceeded to torture her for almost four hours.
The alleged motive is jealousy. One of the attackers was involved romantically with a sixteen year old neighborhood boy, and she suspected that the victim had been competing for his attentions. Apparently, she had been planning a fifteenth birthday party with the help of one of the attacker’s boyfriends.
The attack, which lasted almost four hours before the victim was able to free herself and run away, involved binding her limbs, gagging her, throwing her into the shallow pit they intended to use as her grave, and assault with various weapons including wooden sticks and a machete.
According to the victim “They called me round to their house and when I arrived, they began to hit me. They tied me up and showed me where I was going to be buried. Then they stabbed me and put me in the hole in the ground. I thought I was going to die there.”
What is wrong with kids these days? Have they become so calloused that taking a life means nothing to them? Sheesh.