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Boy charged in tot killing: Prosecutors: 12-year-old beat, raped 3-year-old
By O’Ryan Johnson and Laura Crimaldi
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
A Springfield mother rushed home from an out-of-town family emergency in time to watch her 3-year-old son die from injuries sustained in a brutal beating and rape at the hands of a 12-year-old boy, prosecutors and the Department of Social Services said.
The 12-year-old Springfield boy has been charged with murdering and raping Jeremy Rosario Milan, who died Dec. 19.
Prosecutors refused to identify the 12-year-old due to his age. He is scheduled to be arraigned in Springfield Juvenile Court today.
Hampden District Attorney William Bennett said Jeremy died after being hospitalized two days earlier with several bruises and a severe head injury.
Department of Social Services spokeswoman Denise Monteiro said the toddler's mother had been called out of town on an emergency and left her four children in the care of various relatives.
Prosecutors said someone at the house called 911 Dec. 17 and told Springfield police Jeremy had fallen, hit his head and stopped breathing.
Monteiro said paramedics took him - still unconscious - to Bay State Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition.
Monteiro said the boy's mother returned from the family emergency in time to see her son die.
The 12-year-old was charged with assaulting the little boy and pleaded innocent to the crime in Juvenile Court on Dec. 20. He has been held since then on $10,000 bail in the custody of the state Department of Youth Services.
Prosecutors said according to a preliminary autopsy report, Jeremy died from blunt force trauma to the brain.
Bennett would not give many details about what happened but said Jeremy had been raped at least twice and beaten several times between Dec. 11 and Dec. 17.
Assistant District Attorney Brett J. Vottero said authorities do not believe any other victims fell prey to the 12-year-old boy.
Alan Black, the 12-year-old's lawyer, did not return a phone call requesting comment.
Under state law, juveniles convicted of murder can be held in state custody only until the age of 21.
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What kind of monster do you have to be to do this? 
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asleepathewheel
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listening too long to one song
Mar 2002
time: 00:16
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sick
hopefully they can do something with this kid that will make him a somewhat normal member of society by the time he turns 21...
of course, they could find him incompetent and try to civilliy commit him forever, speaking as someone wholly unfamiliar with Mass laws.
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Rufus T. Firefly
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is one way of saying it, though I prefer "mensch"
Sep 2000
time: 07:16
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Originally posted by Shogun Gunner
It's hard not to feel that he should be in prision for the rest of his natural life. Sorry, at 12, I had NO IDEA what sex was, how to have sex, or anything. Killing someone? I wouldn't know how. Hurting a baby, it never crossed my mind once in my entire life. |
I'm not one to blame the media for this kind of stuff, and I am one to blame the parents, but let me combine the two and say this:
Back when I taught night classes, I would frequently unwind by going to the moview after my class ended and catching the last show (between 9 & 10 pm) of the night. Because I was then dating my now-wife, I would only go see movies she didn't want to see with me; these were usually very violent, R-rated thrillers or horror films -- films that did a fair job of showing you how to have sex and how to kill someone.
And at that hour, in that kind of film, there were always -- always -- a couple of kids, 12 or younger, in the audience. With their parents.
That always bothered me. Now, it frightens me.
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David Floyd
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The bottom of a large bottle of beer
Jan 1970
time: 05:16
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No. Just life in a maximum security prison. I don't give a **** if he's 12.
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Whaleboy
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Please make all cheques payable to Whaleboy
Jan 2003
time: 05:16
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Probably, and when they get caught, they'll spend the rest of their lives in prison, too
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Which will achieve absolutely nothing. Far more effectively, less painful, more productive and cheaper to society for good social care, better education and more powers for medical staff.
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**** it. Crime has consequences, and in my book, if you beat and rape someone to death, you're ass is gonna spend a life sentence in the worst maximum security prison I can find.
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That's very simplistic and doesn't deal with the actual people involved. The more you understand the situation behind these things, somehow the less inclined you are to throw people in jail like it's the answer for all of society's ills, which is quite a naive approach.
This is a 12 year old kid remember. Perhaps his proximity to adolescence is somehow making you think he's an adult, but what if he was female and had used such violence against someone?
What if he was 9? 8? 7? How far do we have to take it before you accept that a kid is not responsible? If you don't, then you would have these young children, this boy of 12, thrown into prison for life? (and I'm sure there are calls for execution too). That's almost as sick as the crime itself 
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aneeshm
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Indore , Madhya Pradesh
Jul 2001
time: 10:46
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Kill this sick 12 year old . Then find out why he did it , and kill the person who abused him ( assuming he was abused ) .
On a related note , this is why I support taking sections of the desert , or uninhabited islands , or some such , and converting them into "exile colonies" . This neatly circumvents all the moral questions associated with the death penalty and life imprisonment .
Have crimes calssified on four levels - and have a colony for each level . Every month , send in enough food to sustain the persons inside .
There is to be no interaction between the people inside and the people outside . I mean none . No laws , no rules , just what the inmates can build up . Only water and food ( and , if necesary , medicine ) to be supplied inside .
This completely circumvents any question of moral debate - the state does not punish at all , just that the person is let loose amond others of his/her own kind . Also , to prevent escapees , have then tattooed ( under anasthesia , or course , so that they undergo no pain and the state is not implicable ) in five places - their forehead and the area just back of the neck , the tips of all their fingers , the back of the palm , and the chin .
It will cut costs drastically , and solve the problems of it costing more to kill a person than putting them in a prison for life .
For crimes not requiring life , the normal prison system will do .
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13-01-2005 08:07
Mind stapling, maybe?
The deductive prowess!!! It's rather like saying "he sounds like a rapist to me". Unless you're saying it's not a learned behaviour then it's quite an empty statement.
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