8-year-old arrested for trying to slit another child’s throat

Shocking facts, especially because of the young age of the attacker. On March 12, an 8-year-old child was arrested in Lake County, Florida (USA), after having tried to cut his throat of another child in a foster home. The facts took place in the garage of the residence, as reported Fox 35when the 13-year-old victimwas surprised by her young attacker who hit her several punches in the stomach before holding it down. The climax of the attack was when the young boy grabbeda knife to try to cut the throat of the teenager, after having tried for the first time to suffocate him.

It is a neighbor who, surely challenged by cries, intervened to prevent the boy from going further in his gesture. When he took the knife from the assailant’s hands, the latter said that he was going “kill everyone”reports the local channel, which specifies that it was already known to the police for acts of violence. “It should be noted that he has a history of violence within the residence towards other children”, said the authorities, who took the young suspect to the Lake County detention center. Several counts now weigh against him, including grievous bodily harm with a deadly weapon, grievous bodily harm by strangulation and aggravated assault.

The injured victim in the throat

The 13-year-old teenager was examined for a long time by the paramedics and refused to go to the hospital after this attack. However, he suffers from a seven centimeter laceration throat, an apparently superficial injury that does not endanger his life, specifies FOX 35 and the New York Post. According to Fox News, for the year 2021 alone, no less than 656 minors have been arrested for murder and manslaughter in the United States. An alarming figure that would be on the rise since, while the authorities report that children are committing these acts at an increasingly young age, in particular because they do not fear the police or the consequences of their actions.