Boy suspected of using baseball bat to kill baby

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_7902210?source=most_viewed&nclick_check=1

# 12-year-old 'enraged' when toddler, believed to be a cousin, kept crying
By Natalie P. Mcneal and Wanda J. Demarzo

MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
Article Launched: 01/07/2008 03:01:14 AM PST

MIAMI -- Upset that the toddler left in his care wouldn't stop crying, a 12-year-old Lauderhill, Fla., boy picked up a baseball bat and beat the little girl to death, police said.

"He became enraged ... because she made noise while he was trying to watch television," said Lauderhill police Lt. Mike Cochran.

The boy was believed to be a cousin of the victim, 17-month-old Shaloh Joseph, who died from multiple blows to the head, authorities said.

He was arraigned on Sunday on a first-degree murder charge in Broward County juvenile court, where a judge ordered the youngster to be held in juvenile detention pending another hearing later this month.

Police said the boy had no previous arrest record.

He had been left alone with his 10-year-old brother and little Shaloh at her home Friday where the beating took place, authorities said.

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[Turbineguy]

1. That's just awful!

Where do these children get such ideas? Fox News?

[ileus]

2. Fox promotes killing kids with baseball bats?

Really that's a cheap thing to say, no matter what.