A 10-year-old girl has been charged with first degree intentional homicide, after she was found guilty of the murder of a six-month-old baby.
According to reports, the young girl alleged stamped on baby’s head at a daycare centre.
The caretaker at the daycare center, told the Police that they had found the boy bleeding from the head and wasn’t responding to them.
He was taken to hospital in St Paul Minnesota where he was later pronounced dead.
Police told the Star Tribune that four children and an adult had been questioned and they all pointed the finger at the 10-year-old girl.
She was arrested after she later admitted that she hurt the baby saying that she dropped him.
Chippewa County Sheriff Jim Kowalczyk said that he then hit his head on a footstool and started crying so she panicked and started stamping on his head.
At the time of the boy’s death she had been staying with the family who operate the day care centre in the town of Wheaton.
Source: Star Tribune