5-year-old Allegedly Stabs Sister Over Nintendo DS
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: Kid, Stabbing, DS
It seems gaming is fast becoming the focal point in domestic disputes and murders on a larger scale even if the medium has nothing to do with the situation.
Case in point: yesterday a report from French website Lepost surfaced that a 5-year-old French boy stabbed his 10-year-old sister Chucky style with a kitchen knife. Reported last Saturday night, the incident had nothing to do with cartoons, or cookies, or who gets to scoop up the dog poop steaming in the den. Rather, the child stabbed his sister following an argument over a Nintendo DS.
Apparently, the girl refused to lend/return the portable console to her 5-year-old brother, so in retaliation, the child headed into the kitchen, retrieved his weapon of choice, and firmly planted the knife in his sister's chest. Later, when questioned by the police, the boy claimed that he was inspired by a Power Rangers game that involved throwing knives. There was also mention of the boy's absent father and his history of domestic violence within the family unit. According to the report, the boy thought the knife was a toy, but understood that he had "done something evil."
Mom, who previously worked all night, slept silently in her room until the screams of her daughter jolted her awake. The girl was promptly taken to the local children's hospital by helicopter where she currently remains. Once the surgeons wheeled her into the operating room to repair the wound, they quickly discovered that unless the boy harnessed the strength of his inspiring Power Rangers, then there was no way the boy could have stabbed his sister.
Later the police arrested the children's mother, now the prime suspect in the stabbing of her daughter. At this point, it's speculated that the whole Nintendo DS incident was a lie, possibly generated by the mother once the daughter arrived that the hospital.
The mother is scheduled to face a judge this morning.
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wtf.... just wtf says it all
I know how the boy feels. I always wanted to kill my little brother when he cried over the Gameboy. He always stopped crying and gave an evil smile when my mom screamed at me to give it to him. I hated him very much back then.
Well before even ending the article I did find it a bit odd on how a five year old could have planted the knife inside his sister like it makes it sound. So I'm not surprised that the mother is the most likely suspect.
But lets say the child did somehow do the act the videogames don't sound to be at fault at all. The child has a history of domestic violence in his home and a obviously neglective mother. Hell its not even the child's fault in this scenario.
If the mother did do it which is the more than likely case I hope she goes to prison for the rest of her days and never sees her children again. That act of doing that to her own child is sick and she even tries to ruin her son's life by lying about it.
Also does anyone else find the pic in the article offensive? What happened is certainly not a joke even if the five year old was the one who did it. you have a sick sense of humor Kevin Parrish.
We used to throw toys at each other or sat down angry when we didn't get to play with the toy of our choice, we would also just hit with our fists and scream a lot to get what we wanted.
The use of a knife is again been brought into the mouth of the anti-gaming crowd. They are now going to make sure games only go about innocent and nice things, no more violence.
The problem here is very easy recognizable, if the boy really did stab his sister, it's because the family wasn't a good environment, with an abusive parent using violence to solve problems.
If there was no game, there would have been a tv program or an incident the child had witnessed with violence. Maybe not as bad as a knife injury, but still the problem remains.
Also does anyone else find the pic in the article offensive? What happened is certainly not a joke even if the five year old was the one who did it. you have a sick sense of humor Kevin Parrish.
Yes, thats just sick humor. What if the boy is innocent!
So the real headline is that the mother allegedly stabbed her daughter.
I like how the article reads that the little boy did it because of a DS and then finishes with: Oh and by the way, the mother probably did it and lied about the whole thing.
Thanks, TG, for the misleading headline and contributing to the videogame violence media hype!
ouch, chucky style...
Why would anyone do anything that stupid? a 5 year old should know better.
I hope the girl will be alright.
the picture made me lol
""There was also mention of the boy's absent father and his history of domestic violence within the family unit.""
Must have been the games....
This is an unfortunate story.
I would b curious as to how serious the stab is…
A 5 yr old would not have a lot of strength and there are a lot of ribs to avoid in the chest area.
So the Mother stabbed the 10 year old girl over the DS and blamed it on the 5 year old wtf?
Damn brain age!!! or was it nintendogs?
WOw whats with the picture. Mario is not evil I tell you, it was pokimon.
The pic is offensive? More offensive than the article or the fact that this happened?
Give me a break. It's just a pic.
i tell you man mario never had a screw driver. thats just going too far, if anything he has firew power where he lights his victims on fire!!
what next? crazy people these days
just to show that Nintendo DS is to die for... :-)
Lets see, people have been killing eachother since, well since there have been people. Brothers kill brothers, sisters kill brothers, kids kill parents, complete strangers kill complete strangers. Let's see if I can get this straight... because the item in question that the argument that started the attack is a Nintendo DS, that it must be the technology that is causing these attacks? No, it is the parenting (lack of) that causes this kind of thing to happen with young kids, not the toy in question. The fact is that the kid has control problems, likely caused by the parents not imposing any control over the kid.
This kind of crap needs to be local in reporting, and not put out over the entire world, as it is not world news, it is local news.
Yeah, I agree with techtre2003 What the hell with that article title?!?!?! You have sunken to the level of the tabloids . . .
I am very disappointed in this site for posting such a poorly written and misleadingly titled article on a serious subject. The site should retract the article and post an apology to its readers.
Seriously, Mario? Put a WaLuigi hat on that kid. WaLuigi, jeese, Wario was clever, WaLuigi is just sad.
It does seem insensitive to have a picture of a homicidal kid (obviously not the kid in question) attached to this article, but then again the whole story is a big F-U to the reader anyway. I mean, if the police suspect the mother did it, why even report the kid/DS stuff first. Just sensationalism to jump on the video games are evil bandwagon.
Yes, let's make up witty lines for an article about a girl getting stabbed. The quality of the journalism at Tom's just keeps getting worse and worse. Don't you realize what you're typing when you're typing it? Do you proofread or ask another person who is not your friend to read it before you submit it?
Where the hell does a 5 year old get a knife? When I was a child the knives were way out of reach for me to go grabbing them and running around.
And how does a kid go from playing a game where you THROW knives to taking a knife and physically stabbing it into her chest? If the kid was imitating what he "saw" on the video game he would have hurled the knife at the girl, which is what kids do.
Nothing about this story adds up. The only thing I can be sure about is that video games will take a bashing in the media as the usual scapegoat for domestic violence. Never poor parenting, always bad video games.
Get over yourselves nancies. The article is offensive? Go hug a tree and drink your river of tears. You bunch of ninnies. I can't stand weak politically correct hippy trash. The pic is awesome and so is a stabbing. Nothing is more awesome than little kids and babies getting stabbed. Punting babies is actually quite fun since you can hear them wailing through the air as their bunted into the side of a rusty warehouse or something, then land on a rusty nail and die. All kidding aside what a horrible mother.
*tasteless sentence* *tasteless sentence* *tasteless sentence* *tasteless sentence*... All kidding aside what a horrible mother.
Well played, good sir.
Well honestly for the girl that is bad news. Moving along, again most of the responses on this thing bears true ignorance in itself and I hope most never have kids. Control IS NOT a factor with having a kid. AGAIN, is NOT a factor and leads to negative reinforcement along with bad behavior when your not there..jeez. TEACH.
they are under estimating 5 year olds. they do have enough strength to stab thru as long as the knife is sharp enough.
its tv i tell yea just watch tv during primetime you will see people stabbing someone every night kids see it and copy it.
I'm sorry, but in the light of the article itself, don't you think the title is rather misleading? How about "Single mother allegedly stabs 10yo daughter, tries to frame 5yo son." It's as if you people just put technology pop references as keywords in google and just copy/paste all the nonsense that comes up on the first page.
Remember the good old days when a white woman would commit a crime and just blame a random black guy. Videogames seem to be the new black....guy.
shouldnt it be a Wario hat?...
I hate how authorities try to blame games. I 100% agree that a game can influence someone to do an act of violence. Guess what? So can books, movies, tv shows, and celebrities. Video games aren't the only bad influence. Your parents fighting can influence you to be violent. We don't need to stop violent video games, we just need parents who know what content their kid(s) can and cannot handle.