A 12-year-old girl in Tennessee has been charged with murder, accused of smothering her 8-year-old cousin as the younger girl slept. A relative said they had been arguing over an iPhone.
A security camera recorded the killing, inside the bedroom they shared on July 15 in Humboldt, Tennessee, the county prosecutor said.
The recording shows the older child using bedding to suffocate her cousin as the younger girl slept in the top bunk, Gibson District Attorney Frederick Agee’s statement said. After the child died, “the juvenile cleaned up the victim and repositioned her body,” Agee said.
A relative told WREG-TV in Memphis that the girls had been arguing over an iPhone after coming from out of town to stay with their grandmother.
Where am I saying that? Just that kids aren’t usually taken aside by their parents and learn about lying and trickery. They figure that out on their own eventually, which doesn’t mean they do not learn from example obviously.
Kids learn by example, and that includes lying. If parents are always honest with their kids, that’s what the kids learn to do. When parents lie - either to or in front of the kids - they’ll learn that as well.