Could Anyone Explain Why A 15 Year Old Girl Would Allegedly Brutally Stab A Poor Innocent 7 Year Old?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4108664/Girl-15-charged-murder-seven-year-old-Katie-Rough.html

RIP little one.

[naomi24]

andy-hughes, //There is a simple straight-forward answer to AOG's OP - that would be - 'No'.

Anything else resembles old ladies knitting at the guillotine. //

In your opinion, but others may wish to express a different opinion.

[jourdain2]

Re. OP. The answer is, of course, 'No' at the moment, but I would like to support at least one earlier statement (zebo's I think) about teenage girls. It was accepted in every school I taught in that whilst it was far rarer to find violent, 'bad' girls than boys, if you did have one in school they were worse in almost every way, vicious and intractable. I've stood in front of a class with a 15 year-old girl weaving in front of me with open scissors - the boys go for their fists usually.

[Prudie]

I suppose it's because AOG asked combined with almost ridiculous rules of behaviour on here that this thread turned the way it has. Of course we don't know but don't you think thousands of people across the country are thinking 'why' in discussion with their partners, friends, families, work colleagues, neighbours, a taxi driver etc etc today? They all of course don't know the response they'd get on AB so are able to discuss it like normal human beings..

[Old_Geezer]

I don't know what makes anyone bullies another, but I don't believe one can expect answers that satisfy. It's a miracle so many brains work as well as they do, at all. If occasionally one fails to understand the need for morality in the actions it controls, and decides to do whatever pleases it, we ought not be surprised nor expect such answers.

[andy-hughes]

Prudie - //I suppose it's because AOG asked combined with almost ridiculous rules of behaviour on here that this thread turned the way it has. //

I can only speak personally, obviously, but my response to any OP on any section has nothing whatsoever to do with the individual who posted it.

I would have asked my questions, and posted my responses regardless of who set up the OP.

As far as the 'almost ridiculous rules of behaviour', they can be summed up in just two words - be nice.

I am happy to admit that I don't always adhere to the rules as I should, I prone to get carried away in the heat of debate as are others, but as I said, that is governed only by what is said directly and indirectly to me, it is not governed by who says it.

[Answerprancer]

I don't think there is anything wrong with speculating about why something like this could happen. It's a natural process and helps us to work things through.
Why? Who knows? ...the girl's a nutter, she has had a horrifically abusive upbringing, she's gone off the rails for some other reason, she really was simply ...evil etc etc
One thing I think is certain, these are relatively rare occurrences and when they do happen and details are released, we all learn a bit more.

Very very sad.

[Smowball]

Was just on news that the mum had made a 999 call reporting the little girl missing just before she was found

[ladybirder]

What a nightmare for all concerned.

[Smowball]

Explains why everyone asked why she was there with no supervision - she wasn't meant to be there

[Zacs-Master]

131 posts in. Has anyone answered the OP yet?

[hc4361]

Yes, Jourdain at 17:18. He said, 'No'.

[Smowball]

Yes they have.

[Zacs-Master]

Ha hc. Should have ended there.

[agchristie]

Zacs > 131 posts in. Has anyone answered the OP yet?

One has to speculate to accumulate...

[Quizproquo]

I am not just speculating, sadly. I know people who are closely linked with this case.
I personally find AOG's take on it distasteful when he questions why a 7 year old is walking home from school, as if the parents were somehow at fault via their neglect. Are they not suffering enough?
A 7 year old SHOULD be walking home from school, they're not toddlers.
If there was a whole gang of 7 year olds walking home like there were when I was 7 we wouldn't worry about predators picking them off, because safety in numbers works.
This is a tragic case and while I appreciate human nature is ghoulish, there are some things that should wait a while.
To quote a phrase: Too soon

[agchristie]

Quizproquo - this is what AOG wrote in his first paragraph on page 1:-

"In this day and age why was a seven year old walking home alone from a primary school, which is half a mile from her home? "

My daughter's school is half a mile away and she is TEN. I do not allow her to walk home. Reason being, a guy in a car tried to snatch a girl off the streets recently and she WAS walking with a group of five girls. So much for safety in numbers there...

[anneasquith]

What a very sad thread, the actual death of this wee girl completely lost because of the usual bitching, rudeness,point scorinscoring by the usual abers. RIP Katie.

[237SJ]

^ Agreed but I think that is par for the course on this site