More than two years after a 10-year-old California boy fatally shot his sleeping neo-Nazi father, a judge will consider where the child should spend his sentence for second-degree murder.
The hearing Friday had been delayed for months as the Riverside County court tries to determine the best way to rehabilitate the boy, who is now 13.
The child was convicted earlier this year of shooting his father, 32-year-old Jeff Hall, in the head as he slept on the living room couch.
Defense attorneys want the boy sent to a residential treatment facility for his emotional disabilities, but prosecutors want him to do time at a facility run by the state’s juvenile justice system.
The boy could remain in custody until he is 23 for the May 2011 killing.
(AP)
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he should tyna that he’s a yasom
A fine young lad…looking forward to seeing great accomplishments from him.
What goes around comes around.
what will he do when he is released? how will he live?
The father was not just any neo nazi – he was a regional director of the nazi movement and held nazi rallies at synagogues. The kid did the world a favor. But those weren’t the kid’s intentions he was the victim of an abusive and violent childhood and he became abusive and violent himself.
At age 5 he stabbed a teacher with a pencil on the first day of kindergarten. He also tried to strangle a teacher with a phone cord.
Did he kill him knowing he was a hater…? Or just to take revenge for his childhood abuse?… either way good job kid!