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Teen Accused Of Stabbing Her 4 Year Old Cousin To DeathINDIANAPOLIS, IN – A community is reeling after a 14-year-old girl stabbed her 4-year-old cousin to death.

According to reports, Leon “Tater” Thomas III and his 11-year-old sister were at their grandparents, where their 14-year-old cousin also lived, when the stabbing took place.

The kids were in a front room of the two-story apartment while the grandparents were upstairs. Leon’s sister ran upstairs to get them when the older girl’s temper started to get out of control over reasons unknown. When she returned downstairs, she found that her cousin had repeatedly stabbed Leon.

The boy was rushed to the hospital, but would die later that day. The 14-year-old suspect was found shortly afterward walking down the street several blocks away, covered in blood.

She was taken to the Marion County Juvenile Detention Center on a preliminary charge of murder. Her detention hearing is scheduled to take place today, where it will be decided if she should remain detained and when prosecutors can ask that she be transferred to adult court.

The girl as an eight-grader at John Marshall Community High School who neighbors describe as a “sweet, quiet girl.” They say she belonged to the church and participated in youth programs and the choir. A search of Indianapolis Public Schools records showed no attendance issues, but a police report was uncovered detailing her arrest after fighting at Arlington Woods Elementary when she was 12-years-old.

The suspect’s Godmother told reporters that teen treated Leon “like she was his mother” and that she would have never done anything to harm the boy. She also said the girl’s mother has been hospitalized due to stress.

“I’m not really concerned how it happened,” she said. “I just want everybody to get better.”

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  • Andy P

    “she belonged to the church and participated in youth programs and the choir.”  For all the good that shit did.  Seems to me if a 14 year old thinks it is ok to get all stabby on a four year old either she is mentally fucked or parentally fucked.  Or both.  RIP little Leon.

  • Abroad

    [quote]The suspect’s Godmother told reporters that teen treated Leon “like
    she was his mother” and that she would have never done anything to harm
    the boy. She also said the girl’s mother has been hospitalized due to
    stress.

    “I’m not really concerned how it happened,” she said. “I just want everybody to get better.”[/quote]

    Sorry to break his to you godmother, but Leon is not going to get better. Ever. :-(

  • Lena60

    I’m not really concerned how it happened,” she said. “I just want everybody to get better.”WTF! The little boy is not going to get better.Sounds like this girls has mental issues undiagnoised.

  • sugarpie

    She certainly had everyone around her fooled.  “she would have never done anything to harm the boy” – ummmm she not only harmed him, she killed him.

  • HotReadingMama

    Tater! Awwww

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7N6KYE5OZO7WNUYTTYEDVWOINE Marysa Nieves

    OMG, Fuggin psycho little witch! Godmother sounds sooo callous: “I’m not concerned how this happened” – thats a slappable comment!

    RIP Tater

  • LeaveMeBe

    I’m getting really sick and tired of these quiet, sweet, church-going, nurturing and angelic teens going berzerk and killing people.

  • LeaveMeBe

    No shit. That has got to be the most asinine comment of the day.

  • Spifftastic

    I’m not sure it was asinine, just poorly worded. I took it to mean that her entire world was just destroyed, and she was just wishing that at least parts of it would return to normal. Can you blame her for wanting it? It sounds like she wants at least some of her family back (like the girl’s mother who was hospitalized from stress, who she probably has some hope for). Never going to happen and horribly worded, but I doubt this is a family of geniuses.

  • reapre

    “she belonged to the church and participated in youth programs and the choir.” For all the good that shit did.

    Church does jack shit for the majority, except turning the majority into bigoted, hateful, fear-mongers.  Adding that she “belonged to ‘The Church’ ” should add to her viciousness, not make her seem “sweeter”, dafuq is wrong w/ people?!   Crusades, Salem Witch Trials, 1,000′s of years of scientific oppression, women oppression, different ethnic oppression, different belief murders…list goes on, obviously…

    You can find news articles with pastors preaching to their congregation that kids should be BEAT if they are perceived as “gay”.  For just 1 lowly example, Pastor Sean Harris:  http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/08/pastor-who-sparked-outrage-over-hitting-gay-children-speaks-out/

  • OutOfBubbleGum

    Well, if grandma’s and grandpa’s grand-children photos suddenly look as if one teenaged child came out of an Olde Navy catalog, I assure you, it’s only coincidental.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7N6KYE5OZO7WNUYTTYEDVWOINE Marysa Nieves

    Yeah, I don’t think she literally meant that she didn’t care, but it does sound like she’s not giving any weight to the role her god daughter played in this tragedy. It just sounds dumb & assholish. Maybe she didn’t know what to say. The media vultures are always sticking a mic in someone;s face for a comment at the most fucked up times……

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=23422362 Robin Camille

    Yeah, certaintly seems as though there may have been some undiagnosed mental disease in the family. Poor tater tot. Never to be a full grown spud. WTF is with people today man. I LOVE THIS SITE.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=23422362 Robin Camille

    Yeah, certaintly seems as though there may have been some undiagnosed mental disease in the family. Poor tater tot. Never to be a full grown spud. WTF is with people today man. I LOVE THIS SITE.

  • DangerousKindOfSnark

    You know what though? I think this family has done enough denying for a lifetime. Surely, this can’t be the first time she’s done something violent like this. Perhaps if they weren’t so worried about everything “being” normal none of this would have happened.
    I wonder what the mother was so stressed about? Was it her little Damion child? Was she tired of seeing nannies jumping from the windows?

  • DangerousKindOfSnark

    You know what though? I think this family has done enough denying for a lifetime. Surely, this can’t be the first time she’s done something violent like this. Perhaps if they weren’t so worried about everything “being” normal none of this would have happened.
    I wonder what the mother was so stressed about? Was it her little Damion child? Was she tired of seeing nannies jumping from the windows?

  • DangerousKindOfSnark

    Don’t forget you’re supposed to act feminine and wear dresses and makeup too. If your daughter is acting too much like a boy, egads, you’re a bad parent!

  • DangerousKindOfSnark

    Don’t forget you’re supposed to act feminine and wear dresses and makeup too. If your daughter is acting too much like a boy, egads, you’re a bad parent!

  • CT

     I’m still voting for asinine though I could be swayed to also go with senseless, dense or half-witted.

  • CT

    That is exactly what I was thinking.  Just like we read all of the time — “OH, so and so was such a great person.  He wouldn’t hurt a fly but he’d fuck your dog and steal your Grandmothers pension check every month but he was a gentle soul.”  

    Stop living in denial.   

  • kimbev69

    you know it’s amazing the godmother “wants everyone to get better” wtf is wrong with her..the little guy is dead…no getting better for him…what an ass just keep your mouth shut your stupid is showing

  • kimbev69

    seriously you never hear about the bad kids committing crimes…how bout this adams guy he is supposedly a great guy also..and yet the mother and daughter are found buried in his mothers yard

  • Spifftastic

    This is just why people shouldn’t comment to the media after a horrific experience. The instantaneous denial is pretty normal in such a horrific circumstance. The girl was only 14, it’d be hard for any family member to believe.

    Also, if she’d said “the girl was a psychotic bitch” to the media that would’ve been classless, terrible for court proceedings, and even a worse thing to say. It was dumb to say anything at all, but this just sounds like a woman who lost everything she cares about and is still processing it to me.

  • cerealmom

    That comment from the godmother would make you think a family pet died rather than a child….Kind of gives you an idea of the dysfunction that led the girl to kill the poor little boy.

  • kimbev69

    i know right..how sad…like this other case i can’t recall where the relatives were all outside with signs asking the killer to be set free…i think it was an older teen who killed his sisters baby or something…and they were smiling

  • DangerousKindOfSnark

    I said that it’s hard to believe that this is the first indication ever that the littlest angel is a powder keg and I stand by that assessment. Not everyone reacts to a crime committed by a loved one with such blinders on either. I’m not going to pick apart every little word in her statement, but taken as a whole I think she might have been fooling herself for awhile. Perhaps she shouldn’t have made a comment, but she did so now that is out there to get picked apart for anyone who wants to do it. No one forced her to open her mouth and say anything, she could have just as easily walked away. 

  • LeaveMeBe

    I’m sticking by asinine. It’s been one of my favorite words since I was about 10 years old because it substituted for “stupid ass” and I wouldn’t get into trouble even though I said “ass” in it.

  • CT

    My favorite word as a kid was fartface. I don’t think it applies here but I have found in my 40 some years, it has many, many uses.

  • Heather_Habilatory

     Shit. I kind of abide by that as a derby girl.

  • Heather_Habilatory

     Today? Stick around a bit. Every day there’s some new horror to make you say “WTF?!”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GWBV2FUY3OBYX3RNK6I44QSC7I Kwum

    this 14yr old demon seed
    must.
    be.
    destroyed

  • Califboy

     Changed my middle initials to WTF….

  • spayneuteryourpets

    People who kill people on purpose need to be put in jail for the rest of their lives.  Not to punish them but to protect the rest of society from them.  There is something missing or wrong with their brains that pills cannot fix.  

  • pikeman

    It’s the sweet quiet ones that you have to watch out for.

  • JGo555

    Someone made her spill her cereal & milk onto her Justin bieber poster.

    It’s ALL HIS FAULT!

  • JGo555

    I thought for a second before reading the article: WHAT IF THE 4 y o was the Damian & she just helped us all by getting rid of the Anticrhrist!???

  • whisperswing

    Prayer vigil calls for healing of suspect, 14, and victim’s family

    Mourners gathered at the Beechwood Garden Apartments on Indianapolis’ east side
    Monday to recall the life of a little boy reportedly stabbed to death by his
    older cousin Saturday night.Leon Thomas III, 4, died of multiple stab
    wounds suffered inside his grandmother’s apartment at 2735 Graham Ave. His
    14-year-old cousin was arrested less than a mile away with blood on her hands
    and clothing.

    It just takes one time for a tragedy like this to happen,” said Rev. Malachai
    Walker who led the vigil, “and now we’re looking
    An examination of IMPD reports
    indicated the girl led a chaotic life estranged from her mother and in the legal
    guardianship of her grandmother, Angelia Shanks. When a step-brother was beaten
    by several members of the family the police indicated the boy said, “his mom…
    told him that she got her satisfaction out of that.”

    [...]
    http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-prayer-vigil-calls-for-healing-of-suspect-14-and-victims-family-20120507,0,4024519.column

  • Pyncky

    “She is a sweet, quiet
    girl,” she said. “She belonged to the church and participated in the
    youth programs and the choir.”

    Why do people nearly always point
    out that someone was a church-goer when something like this happens. Going to
    church and believing in the invisible man in the sky and his zombie off-spring
    does not mean you are a good and moral human being.

    I am sorry for the family for their
    losses and wonder if maybe she had been experimenting with bath salts or
    something similar.  
     

  • Craig Ellis

    I’m kinda wondering what they’re going to blame.  

  • http://truecrimereport.com iLLusionS

    This will be one of my posts where I am late and echoing alot of what has already been said. But first of all the godmother acts like this is just all going to come out in the wash. The four year old is dead, there is no “healing” or “turning back” from that. And the 14 year old is twisted and fugged up in the head..

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sarah-Silcox-Martin/1460419094 Sarah Silcox Martin

    Hmmm. And yet you ended up a bigot too. Interesting.

  • takurospirit

    I must re-assure you as a “sweet” quiet one I have no plans to murder you. It’s not like people haven’t given me plenty of reason. The quiet, meek, shy girl is quite the target in life after all. I’m apparently just a horrible person. But again, don’t worry. I won’t stick a knife in your face or anything. I promise. ;)

  • Sharnique Perkins

    Keep her black ass in jail for the rest of the trial, for the rest of her life!! fuck that, I’m sick of judges making exceptions for these little wastes of fcking sperm. its easy for someone her age to understand; stabbing a poor defenselss child will result in his/her death! Sharnique says: Kill the bitch!!

  • Sharnique Perkins

    yes thats true!!

  • Heather4877

    No shit.  I sincerely doubt that this and the incident at age 12 were the only warning signs that something wasn’t right with this girl. 

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  • chgplz

    ROTFLMAO

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Julie-Ann-Palmisano/100001535948745 Julie Ann Palmisano

    I know, right?