Weird 13-year-old-girl charged with shooting her father

[DuckieKing]

BUENA VISTA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A 13-year-old girl used a shotgun to fatally shoot her father in the head early Monday in a home overrun with animals and filth, police said.

The girl told investigators she used a 12-gauge shotgun to shoot 34-year-old Matthew Booth in the face while he was in bed, according to a police affidavit.

'Abused' girl, 13, shoots father in head with shotgun

A 13-year-old girl used a shotgun to fatally shoot her father in the head in a home overrun with animals and filth, police said

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Sad... kids shooting their parents...

 

[Tonks]

she was charged as an adult with criminal homicide and ordered held without bail.

A 14-year-old charged as an adult..?

 

[esb]

I don't see anything wrong with a 14 year old charged as an adult for homicide. Just cause you're 14 years old, doesn't mean you can go around killing people.

 

[Sim]

> the girl had told her she had killed her father because she "just couldn't take it any more." Gruber said the girl also told her she had been abused.

This is not an excuse. There are numerous people out there who could've helped her, there was no need to kill her father to demonstrate how angry she was, whether he had abused her or not.

 

[Tonks]

This is not an excuse. There are numerous people out there who could've helped her, there was no need to kill her father to demonstrate how angry she was, whether he had abused her or not.

Numerous people that she could get to, that she could contact, without fear of being caught by the abusive parent?

 

[esb]

Yup, i mean your dad is sleeping, call 911, or go to a police station, even the neighbor knew something was wrong and tried to help. What about her mom?

This could be planned murder?

"she messed up the house to make it look like somebody had broken in and she ended up shooting him in the face."

Yes i guess she tried...

she had complained several times to county child welfare officials that her daughter and her brother, 14, were living in squalor and that her daughter had been abused.

 

[1JadedJen]

You assume of course, that a 13 year old girl who has been abused most of her life was thinking clearly.

 

[esb]

True, but they said they showed no signs of being molested or abused.