Boy, 11, stabbed screaming baby. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Source: Timesonline
July 5, 2005 Author: Russell Jenkins

A BOY aged 11 stabbed his nephew with a kitchen knife after the baby’s crying put him off his PlayStation game, a court was told yesterday.
The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, may then have twisted the blade as it was embedded in the wound, causing life threatening injuries.

The boy admits he stabbed the seven-month-old child but denies attempted murder and alternative charges of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm or unlawful wounding.

The jury at Hull Crown Court was told that the baby’s mother — the sister of the accused boy — was suffering from depression and had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act for her own safety. The baby was being brought up by his grandmother.

The 11-year-old, previously the youngest in the family, became jealous of all the attention the baby was receiving. He once confessed tearfully to a teacher that the baby was “doing his head in”.

Gary Burrell, QC, for the prosecution, said: “It was a very stressful time for the family.”

After the attack the boy, now aged 12, readily confessed. He told police that he had been using his PlayStation in his bedroom when the baby woke up in the next room and began screaming “dead loud”. The boy paused the game, went into the kitchen and closed the door and took a knife out of the drawer “because he wanted to mend a plastic toy he had got with a meal from a McDonald’s restaurant”.

He then went into the bedroom where the baby was crying with the knife in his hand. When asked the reason why he had stabbed his nephew he said he had felt like a volcano about to erupt because he kept losing his lives in his PlayStation game.

Mr Burrell told the court: “He said he had been stressed out at school and also because his sister was in hospital. He also said he had been bullied at school.

“That had made him mad and wound up.”

After the stabbing the boy hid the knife, which had broken under the force of the impact, under a television cabinet then changed from his pyjamas into his school clothes and rushed across the road to a friend’s house to fetch his mother.

Mr Burrell said he was in “some distress”, crying and obviously shocked. He told his mother: “I have done something awful. Something really bad has happened to the baby.” When she returned to the house she found the baby bleeding from his abdomen.

He was taken to hospital in Grimsby and operated on.

A surgeon who treated the baby said that the three stab wounds suggested that the knife had been moved around once it had been plunged in. The wounds were life-threatening but the child had made a good recovery since the emergency operation.

The boy’s mother, in court, described a noisy family life where she had little time to give her son any attention. She had not had even had time to discuss the call she had received from a teacher saying that he was upset at school.

The baby “screamed the house down” whenever he was left with her and her son was left to spend a lot of time watching television and playing on his PlayStation games console, sometimes throwing the controller down when he did not win.

His mother, who worked full-time as a home help, said: “I did not really talk to him. I did not have the time or energy to think about my own kids.”

She told the court that, despite the frustrations, her son loved the baby and treated him like a brother. He would often feed and comfort the crying child. She said: “He adored that baby”.

The hearing continues.

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crazy world walaahi, for a play station.. horta who left a child with another child...? negligence