Society's Child
Boulder County Sheriff's Commander Heidi Prentup said in a statement that the mother drank the caustic fluid on one of the two attempts, which both happened within a week this month.
On March 2, the girl poured bleach into a breakfast smoothie that she had prepared for her mother, Prentup said.
"Mom noticed an odor of bleach in the drink and thought her daughter had cleaned the glass prior to making the beverage and did not rinse all the bleach out," the police statement said.
The woman, who was not named by the authorities, was treated at a local hospital and released.
Four days later, the girl allegedly poured bleach into a water carafe her mother kept in her bedroom. When the woman smelt bleach, she became suspicious and confronted her daughter.
"This is when she learned her daughter had developed the plan to kill her for taking away her iPhone," police said.
Prentup said the mother reported the girl to police, and that investigators then gathered enough evidence to take her into custody.
The girl was taken to a juvenile detention facility on Friday where is being held pending the filing of charges.
Source: Reuters
Reader Comments
If someone in your household tried to kill you -- even "only" once -- could you trust that person to continue to live in your household?
I find myself wondering..
The obvious comes to mind, possibly parenting issues, right ?
It's intrigued me for some time, could it be some signal from the phones
themselves ?
Kids become unusually hostile and secretive when it comes to their
IPhones.
Is is something to do with the "cloud " ?
No need to micro chip the populace, just get em hooked up to smart phones and you can track them, check out just about everything
that goes on in every minute of their lives.
My general conclusion is that in exchange for the wonders of the
net, the PTB have hacked our actual daily lives.
I don't think that it can be blamed on any one thing, but I think that a big part of it is the lack of personal privacy. Be it by choice or just a result of the current paradigm, the youth of the cyber age have almost every aspect of their lives under constant scrutiny.
I don't care who you are, but knowing that your every moment is being documented somewhere has got to be maddening. Even if it is an accepted side effect of living digital lives, we need to have some part of our day to day lives private.
Perhaps that is part of the reason that kids are so attached to their digital devices. Knowing that they have one way to keep some part of their lives semi-private could be the only thing that is holding a lot of kids together.
Even if they know, deep down, that even their devices really aren't all that private.






Take her somewhere where she can really learn how to kill her mom