The most cruel child killers. Little monsters: the four most brutal child killers in history The smallest killers in the world

When an adult is in the dock, this no longer surprises anyone. But how to understand the reason why small children become cruel killers, and what pushes a child to commit crimes that horrify even seasoned criminals. Lack of parental love, a sense of self-preservation, or is it still a serious mental disorder? The youngest offender sometimes himself cannot determine the reason for his inadequate actions.

Amardeep Sada, India

A juvenile killer from the Indian state of Bihar, by the age of eight, had killed three children, with whom he had previously played beautifully in the yard. His victims were a cousin and sister, as well as a child living next door. It was not possible to find out the reason for this behavior of the child, Amardeep dealt with his peers with particular cruelty, beating them to death with sticks and stones. Apparently, he himself could not understand the reason for his aggression, since after the arrest he smiled all the time and asked the police for cookies.

Mary Bell, UK

This little girl became famous all over the world after, at the age of 11, she strangled two boys aged 3 and 4. Mary grew up in a dysfunctional family, and her parents did not care about raising their children. My father did not work anywhere, and in order not to lose the allowance that his mother received, he always pretended to be Uncle Mary. The girl's mother had serious mental disorders and, shortly before the girl's birth, she tried to poison herself with pills. Later, she wanted to do the same with Mary.

A girl from infancy learned the art of survival in a cruel society, where there was no one to protect and caress her. And although the relatives tried to somehow take part in the fate of the girl, she did not let any of them into her fictional world, and she simply tore all the gifts received from her aunts to shreds. If at that moment the parents were more attentive to their child, they would have noticed the unchildish rigidity and aggression that little Mary showed towards everyone around her. Her statement at the trial that she took pleasure in committing murders shocked even hardened judges.

The sentencing of the juvenile delinquent was influenced by a psychiatric examination, which revealed multiple deviations in the girl, and in 1980 Mary was released. It is said that she even gave birth to a child. What fate awaits a girl born of such a mother, one can only guess.

Eric Smith, USA

A thirteen-year-old teenager from the United States has experienced bullying and ridicule from his peers since early childhood because of his glasses with thick lenses, funny protruding ears and red hair. And when you consider that doctors diagnosed a mental disorder with outbursts of unreasonable cruelty, it helps to understand why he turned into a brutal killer.

In 1993, he committed the brutal murder of a small 4-year-old boy in a local park. According to psychologists who examined the young villain, he took out all his anger and resentment on the world around him on a defenseless baby. He could not punish his offenders, because he did not have sufficient physical strength, so all the aggression poured out on someone who was much younger and weaker.

The court sentenced the juvenile delinquent to the maximum sentence provided for minors - 9 years to life imprisonment. Later, Eric repeatedly wrote petitions for clemency and even apologized to the family of the murdered baby, but the court decided to uphold the verdict and the killer is still in an American maximum security prison.

It is noteworthy that a year before the commission of this terrible crime, the youngest criminal strangled a neighbor's cat with a watering hose. Psychologists call such aggressive behavior towards animals the first sign of future crimes. Perhaps, if this fact had been given an appropriate assessment, the neighbor's baby would have survived.

John Venables and Robert Thompson, UK

The crime committed by these 10-year-olds in 1993 shocked the entire UK. The juvenile killers took the two-year-old boy into the woods and started the "execution game". The game very quickly turned into reality, and it seems that the teenagers did not realize the seriousness of the consequences of such a crime.

Since the victim was waiting for his mother near the entrance to the supermarket, where there were security cameras, the perpetrators were found very quickly. No one could have thought that the two teenagers dragging the stubborn baby were not his older brothers, but cruel killers. After bullying the boy, they put the child's body on the tracks, in the hope that the passing train would destroy all traces of the crime.

These teenagers also came from dysfunctional families, and violence was not unusual for them. The court passed the maximum sentence for their age - 10 years, but later the sentence was commuted, and in 2000 they were released.

Graeme Frederick Young, UK

From childhood, the youngest criminal was fond of chemistry, and in particular the effects of poisons on the human body. And his craving for stories about pathological crimes and bloody maniacs determined his fate. It should be noted that the ideal for Graham was Adolf Hitler.

He began his first experiments in making poisons at the age of 14, and his closest relatives and friends were his first victims. Thanks to his resourcefulness and cunning, he got the components for his poisons with almost no problems.

At first, no one guessed that the cause of the strange ailment of his father, mother and younger sister lies very close by. Later, he also poisoned his stepmother, although this crime could not be proven.

After the arrest, the juvenile poisoner went to a psychiatric hospital for treatment, where he spent a little more than half of the term assigned to him by the court. The doctors who signed the conclusion about his complete recovery did not even know that I was releasing a terrible monster. After getting a job, Graham continued to kill - now he mixed the poison into the tea of ​​his colleagues. Once again in prison, the terrible poisoner died in 1990.

Unfortunately, the list of children who have become famous due to their terrible crimes is far from complete and is updated every year with more and more new names, but the responsibility for such behavior of children lies primarily with adults.

1) Mary Bell

Mary Bell is one of the most "famous" girls in British history. In 1968, at the age of 11, together with her 13-year-old girlfriend Norma, with a break of two months, she strangled two boys, 4 and 3 years old. The press all over the world called this girl a "corrupted seed", a "spawn of the devil" and a "monster child".

Mary and Norma lived next door in one of the most disadvantaged areas of Newcastle, in families where large families and poverty habitually coexisted, and where children spent most of their time playing unsupervised in the streets or in dumps. Norma's family had 11 children, Mary's parents had four. Her father pretended to be her uncle so that the family would not lose the allowance for a single mother. “Who wants to work? he was genuinely surprised. “Personally, I don’t need money, just enough for a pint of ale in the evenings.” Mary's mother, a wayward beauty, suffered from mental disorders since childhood - for example, for many years she refused to eat with her family, unless she was put food in a corner under an armchair.
Mary was born when her mother was only 17 years old, shortly after an unsuccessful attempt to poison herself with pills. Four years later, the mother tried to poison her own daughter as well. Relatives took an active part in the fate of the child, but the survival instinct taught the girl the art of building a wall between herself and the outside world. This feature of Mary, along with violent fantasy, cruelty, as well as an outstanding non-childish mind, was noted by everyone who knew her. The girl never allowed herself to be kissed or hugged, she tore to shreds the ribbons and dresses given by her aunts.

At night, she moaned in her sleep, jumped up a hundred times, because she was afraid to urinate. She loved to fantasize, talking about her uncle's horse farm and the beautiful black stallion she supposedly owned. She said she wanted to become a nun because the nuns are "good". And I read the Bible all the time. She had five of them. In one of the Bibles, she pasted a list of all her deceased relatives, their addresses and dates of death ...
2) John Venables and Robert Thompson

17 years ago, John Venables and his friend, the same scum as Venables, but only named Robert Thompson, were sentenced to life in prison, despite the fact that at the time of the murder they were ten years old. Their crime caused shock throughout Britain. In 1993, Venables and Thompson stole a two-year-old boy from a Liverpool supermarket, the same James Bulger, where he was with his mother, dragged him onto the railway, brutally beat him with sticks, doused him with paint and left him to die on the rails, hoping that the kid would be run over by the train and his death will be taken as an accident.
3) Alice Bustamant
A 15-year-old schoolgirl appeared before a Missouri state court for the brutal murder of a 9-year-old girl. According to the defendant, she went to this atrocity out of pure curiosity - she wanted to know what the killer feels.

A terrible crime was committed by schoolgirl Alice Bustamant from the city of Jefferson City, Associated Press reports. On Wednesday, a Cole County judge ruled that the girl would be tried as an adult. A few hours later, Alice was charged with premeditated murder with the use of edged weapons. She faces life imprisonment without the right to parole.

Alice Bustamant carefully prepared for the crime, cold-bloodedly choosing the best moment for the attack. The girl dug two holes in advance, which were supposed to play the role of a grave, and then calmly went to school for a whole week, choosing the right time to massacre nine-year-old neighbor Elizabeth Olten.

On October 21, for no apparent reason, Alice strangled the girl, slit her throat and stabbed her body with a knife.

Subsequently, during one of the interrogations, Alice mentioned to Missouri Highway Patrol Sergeant David Rice that she "wanted to know the feelings that a person experiences in a similar situation."

The girl confessed to the murder on 23 October. Alice herself led the police to the place where she safely hid the body of Elizabeth. Her remains were buried in a wooded area near St. Martins, a small town west of Jefferson City.

Prior to this, hundreds of volunteers combed the territory of Jefferson City and its environs in the hope of finding the missing girl, but all was in vain.

We add that District Attorney Mark Richardson has not yet explained why the defendant dug two holes at once.

4) George Junius Stinney Jr.
Although there was a lot of political and racial distrust surrounding this case, most accepted that this Stinney guy was guilty of killing two girls. It was 1944, Stinney was 14, he killed two girls aged 11 and 8 and threw their bodies into a ravine. He apparently wanted to rape the 11-year-old, but the youngest interfered with him, and he decided to get rid of her. Both girls resisted, he beat them with a club. He was charged with first-degree murder, found guilty, and was sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out in the state of South Carolina.
5) Bari Loukatis
In 1996, Barry Lukatis put on his best cowboy outfit and went to the office where his class was supposed to take an algebra lesson. Most of his classmates found Barry's costume ridiculous, and himself even weirder than usual. They didn't know what this suit was hiding, but there were two pistols, a rifle and 78 rounds of ammunition. He opened fire, his first victim was 14-year-old Manuel Vela. A few seconds later, several more people fell victim to it. He began to take hostages, but made one tactical mistake, he allowed the wounded to be taken away, at the moment when he was distracted, the teacher grabbed his rifle from him.
6) Kipland Kinkel
On May 20, 1998, Kinkel was expelled from school for trying to buy stolen weapons from a classmate. He confessed to the crime and was released from the police. At home, his father told him that he would have been sent to a boarding school if he had not cooperated with the police. At 3:30 p.m., Kip pulled out his rifle hidden in his parents' room, loaded it, went into the kitchen, and shot his father dead. At 18:00 the mother returned. Kinkel told her that he loved her and shot her - twice in the back of the head, three times in the face and once in the heart.

He later claimed that he wanted to protect his parents from the embarrassment they might have because of his problems with the law. Kinkel put his mother's body in the garage and his father's body in the bathroom. All night he listened to the same song from the movie Romeo and Juliet. On May 21, 1998, Kinkel arrived at school in his mother's Ford. He put on a long waterproof coat to hide his weapons: a hunting knife, a rifle and two pistols, as well as cartridges.

He killed two students and wounded 24. As he reloaded his pistol, several students managed to disarm him. In November 1999, Kinkel was sentenced to 111 years in prison without the possibility of parole. At the verdict, Kinkel apologized to the court for the murders of his parents and school students.
7) Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolfe
In 1983, Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolf began looking for victims for their entertainment. Usually it was vandalism or car theft, but once the girls showed how sick they really were. Once they knocked on the door of an unfamiliar house, an elderly woman opened it for them. Seeing two young girls of 14-15 years old, the old woman let them into the house without hesitation, hoping for an interesting conversation over a cup of tea. And she got it, the girls chatted for a long time with a cute old woman, entertaining her with interesting stories. Shirley grabbed the old woman by the neck and held her, while Cindy went to the kitchen to get the knife to give to Shirley. After receiving the knife, Shirley stabbed the old woman 28 times. The girls fled the scene but were soon arrested.

8) Joshua Phyllis
Joshua Philips was 14 when his neighbor went missing in 1998. After seven days, his mother began to smell an unpleasant smell coming from under the bed. Under the bed, she found the corpse of a missing girl who had been beaten to death. When she asked her son, he said that he accidentally hit the girl in the eye with a bat, she started screaming, he panicked and began to beat her until she became silent. The jury did not believe his story, he was charged with first-degree murder.

9) Willy Bosket
By the age of 15, in 1978, Willy Bosquet had over 2,000 crimes in New York on his record. He never knew his father, but he knew that the man had been convicted of murder and considered it a "manly" crime. At that time in the United States, according to the criminal code, criminal liability was not provided for minors, so Bosket boldly walked the streets with a knife or a gun in his pocket. Ironically, it was he who set the precedent for revising this provision. Under the new law, children as young as 13 can be tried as adults for excessive cruelty.
10) Jesse is dead
And finally, a little story of Jesse Pomeroy
Jesse Pomeroy is not the bloodiest maniac in history, but definitely one of the most brutal. On account of Pomeroy two deaths - those whom he failed to kill, he cruelly and subtly tortured. The worst thing about all this is that he started killing at the age of 12, and at the age of 16 he was sentenced to death by a court. The offender bore the nickname "Marble Eye".
Jesse was born in 1859 in Boston to lower-middle-class parents Charles and Ruth Pomeroy. The Pomeroys were never a happy family: Charles drank and had an explosive temper. Walking with his father behind the wing for Jesse and his brother meant only one thing: now they would be beaten. Charles stripped his children naked before beginning punishment, so the connection between pain, punishment, and sexual gratification was firmly embedded in Jesse's mind. Later, the boy repeatedly recreated the same picture, tormenting his young victims.

The Pomeroy family did not keep animals at home, because any attempt to start living creatures ended in the death of animals. Ruth dreamed of lovebirds, but was afraid to start them: at one time birds lived at home, but one fine day they were found with folded necks. And after Ruth saw that Jessie was torturing a neighbor's kitten, the idea of ​​​​getting a pet at home completely disappeared.
Like many killers who started with animals, Jesse quickly got tired of such entertainment and began to look for victims among people. Of course, he chose those who were smaller and weaker than him. Pomeroy's first victim was William Payne. In December 1871, two men were walking past a small house on Powder Horn Hill in south Boston when they heard faint screams. When they went inside, they were dumbfounded by what they saw. Four-year-old Billy Payne was suspended by his wrists from a ceiling beam. The half-naked child was almost unconscious. The men immediately untied the boy and only then saw that his back was covered with huge red welts. Billy could not tell the police anything intelligible about the criminal, and they could only hope that this was an isolated case.

Alas, this turned out not to be the case. In February 1872, Jesse lured seven-year-old Tracy Hayden to the Powder Horn neighborhood with the promise of "showing the soldiers." Once in a secluded place, Jesse tied up Tracy and began torturing him. Hayden's front teeth were knocked out and his nose was broken, and his eyes were blackened with blood. Hayden also could not tell the police anything, except that the tormentor had brown hair, and that he promised to cut off his penis. With such a description, there was nothing the police could do to prevent further attacks. But it was clear that the offender was clearly out of his mind and another similar case was a matter of time.

In the early spring of 1872, Jesse brought eight-year-old Robert Mayer to his lair - the boy believed that a new acquaintance would take him to the circus. Having undressed Robert, Pomeroy began to beat him with a stick and forced him to repeat curses after him. Mayer later told police that during the torture, his tormentor masturbated. Having experienced an orgasm, Jesse freed Robert, threatening to kill him if he told anyone about what had happened.
Boston parents announced a hunt for a maniac. Adults forbade their children to talk to unfamiliar teenagers, hundreds of teenagers were interrogated, several raids were organized, but the pervert eluded the police time after time. The next massacre Jesse staged in mid-July, all in the same hut on Powder Horn Hill. With seven-year-old George Pratt, to whom he promised to pay 25 cents for help with the housework, he did exactly the same as with Robert, in addition, tearing off a piece of his cheek with his teeth, slashing his nails until he bled and puncturing his whole body with a long sewing needle. Pomeroy tried to gouge out his victim's eye, but the boy miraculously managed to wriggle out. In parting, Jesse bit off a piece of meat from George's buttocks and ran away.
Less than a month later, Pomeroy kidnapped six-year-old Harry Austin, whom he dealt with according to his favorite scenario. This time he took a knife with him and plunged it into Harry's right and left sides and between his collarbones. After that, he tried to cut off the boy's penis, but he was frightened off and he ran away. Just six days later, Jesse lured seven-year-old Joseph Kennedy to the swamp, cut him with a knife and forced him to repeat a parody of prayer, in which words from Scripture were replaced with obscenities. When Joseph refused, Pomeroy slashed him across the face with a knife and washed him with salt water.

Six days later, a five-year-old boy was found near the railroad tracks in South Boston, tied to a pole. He said that he was lured here by an older boy, promising to show the soldiers, but the description of the criminal turned out to be much more valuable. Robert Gould did the police a huge favor by explaining that "the boy with the white eye" attacked him. Pomeroy's right eye was indeed completely white - both iris and pupil - either due to cataracts or due to a viral infection. So Jesse got his nickname, which all Boston recognized: "Marble Eye".

As is often the case with serial killers, Pomeroy was arrested almost by accident. On September 21, 1872, the police came to Jesse's school with Joseph Kennedy, but he failed to identify his tormentor. For some unknown reason, on his way home after school, Pomeroy went to the police station. Since he never showed much remorse for his crimes, it can be assumed that for him it was part of a game with the police. Joseph was at the police station when Pomeroy entered. Seeing his victim, Jesse turned around and went to the exit, but Joseph had already noticed him and pointed out the offender to the police.
Pomeroy was locked in a cell and began interrogation, but he stubbornly denied. Only when he was threatened with a hundred years imprisonment did he confess everything. Justice was done quickly. The court sent Jesse to the House of Correction in Westboro, where he was supposed to be at the age of 18. However, he was soon released on parole, and six weeks later he was back to his old ways.

On March 18, 1874, ten-year-old Kathy Curran walked into Ruth Pomeroy's garment shop, which Jesse was opening that day. The girl asked if there were notebooks in the store, and Jesse suggested that she go down to the basement - there, they say, there is a store where they are definitely sold. Going down the stairs, Cathy realized that she had been deceived, but it was too late: Pomeroy covered her mouth with his hand and cut her throat. He dragged the body to the toilet and threw stones at it. When the girl's body was found, it turned out that her head was completely crushed, and the upper part of the body had decomposed to such an extent that it was not possible to determine what wounds were on it. However, the fact that Katie's stomach and genitals were cut with particular cruelty was immediately determined by the experts.
Naturally, Cathy's disappearance caused panic. The girl's mother, Mary, went looking for her. The clerk at one of the shops where Kathy went to pick up the notebook told Mary that he had sent the girl to the Pomeroys. Hearing this, Mary almost fainted: she had heard a lot about Jesse. On the way to the Pomeroy store, she met a police captain with whom she shared her experiences, and he assured her that Jesse was not a danger - he supposedly went through rehabilitation in a reformatory, and in addition, he never attacked girls. Mary was turned back home, reassuring the woman that her daughter, most likely, just got lost, and within a day they would find her and bring her home.

Jesse's thirst, meanwhile, did not subside. Despite the danger of being caught, he still tried to lure the children into abandoned houses. Most potential victims were smart enough to refuse his offers, but five-year-old Harry Field could not resist. Jesse asked him to show him the way to Vernon Street, promising to give him five cents. Having brought Pomeroy to the desired street, Harry asked for his reward, and then Jesse pushed him into the archway and ordered him to be silent. Having strayed through the streets in search of a suitable place for the execution, Pomeroy found a secluded corner, but luck that day was clearly on Harry's side: Jesse's neighbor, who knew about his reputation, passed by. The boy yelled at Pomeroy, and while they were arguing, little Harry ran away.
The next kid was much less fortunate. In April 1874, four-year-old Horace Millen went to the bakery for a cupcake when Jesse met him along the way and suggested they go shopping together. Having bought a cupcake, Horace shared it with Jesse, who, in gratitude, offered the child to go to the port to look at the steamers. That he would kill Horace, Jesse decided as soon as he saw the baby. Therefore, he deliberately chose a secluded place where no one could interfere with him. When he reached the swamp near the port, he offered Horace a rest, and as soon as the boy sat down, Jesse slashed his throat with a knife. Annoyed by the fact that he failed to kill the baby the first time, he began to fiercely strike him anywhere. On the arms and forearms of the child, the police counted many wounds, which meant that for most of the fight Horace was alive and resisting. In the end, Jesse managed to cut his victim's throat, but did not calm down and continued to strike, mainly in the groin area. The right eye of the baby Pomeroy was gouged out through the boy's closed eyelid, and the investigator later counted at least 18 wounds on Horace's chest.

The boy's body was discovered a few hours after he was killed, and by the evening of the same day, Horace's body was identified. The most logical suspect was Pomeroy, who was immediately taken to the station and bombarded with questions: where has he been all day? Who could see him? Does he know Horace Millen? Why are there scratches on his face? Jesse answered all questions in detail, but he could not answer the most important one - what he did from 11 to 15.
After interrogation, Pomeroy was taken to a cell, where he immediately fell asleep, while the police, in the meantime, made casts of footprints from the crime scene. The pattern of the footprints completely matched the pattern of the soles of Jesse's shoes, so they announced his arrest. However, he denied everything. "You can't prove anything," Pomeroy repeated. Captain Henry Dyer acted cunningly: he suggested that Jesse go to the funeral home to look at the body of Horace - they say, if you are innocent, then you have nothing to fear. After some hesitation, Pomeroy said he didn't want to go, but the detectives took him to the undertaker anyway. Seeing the mutilated body of little Horace, Pomeroy could not stand it and confessed to the murder. He told the police that he had no idea how serious the crime was. "I'm sorry I did this," he managed through tears. "Please don't tell my mom."

Newspapers trumpeted the news of the maniac's capture all over the East Coast. No one remembered the presumption of innocence: everyone unanimously considered Jesse guilty. On December 10, 1874, the court also recognized his guilt. After the verdict, the case remained only with the signature of the governor - Pomeroy was sentenced to death. However, William Gaston refused to put his signature. The governor's council voted for the death penalty twice, but Gaston was adamant. It was not until the third time that the Council voted to replace the execution with life imprisonment, and only then did the governor certify this decision.
On the evening of September 7, 1876, Jesse was transferred from the prison in Suffolk County to the prison in Charlestown, where the killer was taken to solitary confinement. Pomeroy was 16 years and 9 months old. While in prison, Jesse claimed to have learned to read several languages. Like it or not, it is not known for certain, but the psychiatrist confirmed that Pomeroy mastered German at a very decent level. In addition, he wrote poetry, studied law books, and spent decades drafting clemency petitions. A 1914 psychiatric report noted that during his imprisonment he made more than ten attempts to escape, demonstrating "the greatest ingenuity and perseverance, unprecedented in the history of prison."

In 1917, Pomeroy's sentence was partially changed, allowing him to enjoy some of the privileges provided for inmates with a life sentence. At first, Jesse resisted, insisting on at least a pardon. In the end, he resigned himself to the circumstances and even took part in the prison talent competition. In 1929, Pomeroy, who by that time had already lost his health and aged - he was 70 years old - was transferred to the Bridgewater Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where he died on September 29, 1932.

At the mention of the killers, the blood runs cold, but the worst thing is when these killers are children. It doesn’t even fit in my head that a child can be capable of murder, and even such cruel ones. Before you are stories about bloodthirsty killers in the face of children, causing panic horror.

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Mary Bell is one of the most "famous" girls in British history. In 1968, at the age of 11, together with her 13-year-old girlfriend Norma, with a break of two months, she strangled two boys, 4 and 3 years old. Brian Howe (age 3) was found dead under a mountain of weeds and grass just days after the death of Martin Brown (age 4). His hair was cut, puncture marks were found on his thighs, and his genitals were partially cut off. In addition to these mutilations, there was a mark in the form of the letter "M" on his stomach. When the investigation came to Mary Bell, she gave herself away, describing in detail a pair of broken scissors, which, according to the girl, Brian played with. The scissors became irrefutable proof of Mary's guilt.

Family background may have influenced Mary's unusual behavior. For a long time she thought she was the daughter of a common criminal, Billy Bell, but to this day her real biological father is unknown. Mary claimed that her mother, Betty, who was a prostitute, forced her to engage in sexual intercourse with men - especially her mother's clients - from the age of 4.

The trial ended, but under the law, Mary could not be sentenced to prison due to her minority. The investigation concluded that Mary's stay in a psychiatric hospital or a boarding school for troubled teenagers is also fraught with risk. Therefore, until the age of majority, she was kept in a special shelter for antisocial children, and then in the Mur-Kurt prison with minimal supervision. During the trial, Mary's mother repeatedly sold Mary's story to the press. The girl was only 11 years old, she was released only after 23 years. Now she lives under a different name and surname. This case is well known as the Mary Bell Case.

John Venables and Robert Thompson were sentenced to life in prison, despite the fact that they were only ten years old at the time of the murder. Their crime caused shock throughout Britain. On February 12, 1993, the mother of two-year-old James Bulger left her son at the door of the butcher's shop, thinking it wouldn't take her long to get back, as there was no queue at the store. She didn't think it was the last time she saw her son... John and Robert were outside the same store, going about their usual business: robbing people, stealing from stores, embezzling things when the salespeople turned their backs on them, climbing onto chairs in restaurants while they were not kicked out. The guys had an idea to kidnap the boy, so that later they could make it look like he was lost. (Pictured John Venables)

John and Robert forcibly dragged the boy onto the railroad track, where they threw paint at him, brutally beat him with sticks, bricks and an iron rod, threw stones at him, and also sexually abused a small boy, and then laid his body on the railroad tracks, hoping that the baby would be run over the train and his death will be taken as an accident. James's body was discovered, but a forensic examination showed that the boy had died before the train ran over him. (pictured Robert Thompson)

A 15-year-old girl killed her younger neighbor and hid the corpse. Alice Bustamant planned the murder, choosing the right time, and on October 21 she attacked a neighbor girl, began to choke her, cut her throat and stabbed her. The police sergeant who interrogated the juvenile killer after the disappearance of 9-year-old Elizabeth said that Bustamant confessed where she hid the body of the murdered fourth-grader and took the police to the wooded area where the body was located. She stated that she wanted to know how the killers feel.

On June 16, 1944, a record was set in the United States - George Stinney, who was 14 years old, became the youngest person to be executed in the United States. George was convicted of killing two girls, eleven-year-old Betty June Binniker and eight-year-old Mary Emma Tames, whose bodies were found in a ravine. The girls had severe skull injuries resulting from blows with a rail crutch, which was later found. George confessed to the crime, as well as the fact that he initially tried to have sex with Betty, but in the end everything turned out to be murder. George was charged with first-degree murder, found guilty, and was sentenced to death in the electric chair. The sentence was carried out in South Carolina and overturned in 2014, 70 years after the execution.

On May 20, 1998, Kinkel was expelled from school for trying to buy stolen weapons from a classmate. He confessed to the crime and was released from the police. At home, his father told him that he would have been sent to a boarding school if he had not cooperated with the police. At 3:30 p.m., Kip pulled out his rifle hidden in his parents' room, loaded it, went into the kitchen, and shot his father dead. At 18:00 the mother returned. Kinkel told her that he loved her and shot her - twice in the back of the head, three times in the face and once in the heart. He later claimed that he wanted to protect his parents from the embarrassment they might have because of his problems with the law.

On May 21, 1998, Kinkel drove to school in his mother's Ford. He put on a long waterproof coat to hide his weapons: a hunting knife, a rifle and two pistols, as well as cartridges. He killed two students and wounded 24. As he reloaded his pistol, several students managed to disarm him. In November 1999, Kinkel was sentenced to 111 years in prison without the possibility of parole. During the announcement of the verdict, Kinkel apologized to the court for the murders of his parents and students of the school.

Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolfe

In 1983, Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolf began looking for victims for their entertainment. Usually it was vandalism or car theft, but once the girls showed how crazy they really were. They knocked on the door of an unfamiliar house, and an elderly woman opened it. Seeing two young girls of 14-15 years old, the old woman let them into the house without hesitation, hoping for an interesting conversation over a cup of tea, and she got it - the girls chatted with the cute old woman for a long time, entertaining her with interesting stories. Then Shirley grabbed the old woman by the neck and held her, while Cindy went to the kitchen for a knife. Grabbing a knife, Shirley inflicted 28 stab wounds on the old woman. The girls fled the scene but were soon arrested.

On February 2, 1996, there was a shooting and hostage incident at Frontier Public High School, Washington. Barry Lukatis put on his cowboy suit and went to the school algebra room where his class was supposed to have a lesson. Most of the classmates found Barry's costume funny and Barry's behavior a little strange. They didn't know what this suit was hiding, and there were two pistols, a rifle and 78 rounds of ammunition. He opened fire, his first victim was 14-year-old Manuel Vela. A few seconds later, his victims were a teacher and another classmate. The students were held hostage for 10 minutes until the school physical education teacher managed to disarm the boy.

He was also reported to have yelled, "It's more interesting than talking about algebra, isn't it?" This is a quote from Stephen King's novel Fury, in which the main character kills two teachers and takes the class hostage. Barry is currently serving two life sentences followed by 205 years.

On November 3, 1998, when Joshua Phillips was 14, his neighbor went missing. Joshua's mother was cleaning his room one morning when she found a wet spot under her son's waterbed. While trying to find a leak, she noticed that the mattress was sealed with duct tape. Inside the mattress, Mrs. Phillips discovered the body of a missing 8-year-old neighbor named Maddie Clifton, who had been searched for by the entire town for seven days.

To this day, Phillips has not given a motive for the murder. He said that he accidentally hit the girl on the head with a baseball bat, she started screaming, he panicked, and then dragged her into his room and began to beat her until she stopped talking. The jury did not believe his story, he was charged with first-degree murder. Since Joshua was under the age of 16, he escaped the death penalty. But he was given a life sentence without parole.

By the age of 15, in 1978, by his own admission, Willy Bosket had more than 2,000 crimes in New York on his track record. He did not know his father, but he claimed that his father had been convicted of murder and considered it a "manly" crime. At that time, in the United States, according to the Criminal Code for minors, criminal liability was not provided for, so Bosket boldly walked the streets with a knife or a pistol in his pocket. On March 19, 1978, he shot and killed Moises Perez, and on March 27, the namesake of the first victim, Noel Perez.

Ironically, the Willy Bosket case set the precedent for revisiting the non-criminal provision for minors. Under the new law, children as young as 13 can be tried as adults for excessive cruelty.

At 13 years old, Eric Smith was bullied for his thick-lensed glasses, freckles, long red hair, and another feature: protruding elongated ears. This feature is a side effect of the epilepsy medication his mother took during pregnancy. Smith was charged with the murder of a four-year-old child named Derrick Robbie. On August 2, 1993, the baby was strangled, his head was pierced by a large stone, and besides, the child was raped with a small branch.

The psychiatrist diagnosed him with an emotionally unstable personality disorder, due to which a person cannot control his inner anger. Smith was convicted and sent to prison. During his six years in prison, he was denied parole five times.

Who would have thought that constantly watching wrestling matches could lead to the murder of a six-year-old girl named Tiffany Ownick. Kathleen Grosset-Tate was Tiffany's nanny. One evening, Kathleen left the baby with her son, who was watching TV while she went upstairs. Around ten o'clock in the evening she yelled at the children to be quiet, but did not go downstairs, thinking that the children were playing. Forty-five minutes later, Lionel called his mother, telling her that Tiffany was not breathing. He explained that he wrestled with the girl, making a hold, and then hit her head on the table.

Later, the pathologist concluded that the girl's death was caused by a ruptured liver. In addition, experts witnessed skull and rib fractures, as well as 35 other injuries. Later, Tate changed his testimony and said that he jumped on the girl from the stairs. He was sentenced to life without parole, but in 2001 his sentence was reviewed due to the prisoner's mental incompetence. He was released in 2004 with a ten-year probation.

Craig Price (August 1974)

Joan Heaton, 39, and her two daughters, Jennifer, 10, and Melissa, 8, were found dead in their home on September 4, 1989. Police said that Joan had about 60 stab wounds, while the girls had about 30. The stabbings were so hard that the knife blade broke and stuck in Melissa's body. Authorities believed the theft was the main motive for the crime, and the suspect, when spotted, grabbed a kitchen knife and, in a fit of passion, inflicted those wounds. It was also believed that the robber must have been someone from the area and must have had a wound on his arm.

Craig Price on the same day was caught by the police with a bandaged hand, but said that he broke the car window. The police did not believe his story. They searched his room, finding a knife, gloves, and other evidence. He also confessed to another murder that had been committed in the area two years earlier. The authorities suspected him of a case that also began with a theft and ended like the Heatons case. Craig was given a life sentence the day before he turned sixteen.

James Pomeroy, born in November 1859 in Charleston, Massachusetts, is cited as the youngest person convicted of first-degree murder in state history. Pomeroy began his violent acts towards other children as early as the age of 11. He lured seven children to deserted places, where he stripped them, tied them up and tortured them using a knife or poking pins into their bodies. He was caught and sent to a reform school, where he was supposed to stay until he was 21 years old. But a year and a half later he was released for exemplary behavior. (Pictured right is Jesse Pomeroy in 1925)

Three years later, he changed - from a bad guy turned into a monster. He kidnapped and murdered a 10-year-old girl named Cathy Curran and was also charged with the murder of a 4-year-old boy whose mutilated body was found in Dorchester Bay. Despite the lack of evidence in the boy's murder, he was convicted of Cathy's death. The body lay in a pile of ashes in the basement of Pomeroy's mother's shop. Jesse was sentenced to life in solitary confinement, where he died of natural causes at the age of 72.

Ten Incredible Murder Stories From the World's Most Violent Children. Such violence is unpredictable for the victim, parents, police, judges. Can this little monster be called a child after what he did?

1. Mary Bell

Is the Great Outlaw Girl in 1968 UK. The girl became famous for the murder of her two younger brothers.
Mary was the first child in the family, her mother gave birth to her at the age of 17. The child was not wanted shortly before the birth, the mother tried to poison herself, the doctors managed to save her. Four years later, she did the same with her daughter. Having many mental disorders, the mother could not raise her children normally. She never sat down to dine with her family unless her plate of food was placed in the corner of the room. The father pretended to be an uncle so that the family would receive benefits.
From childhood, Mary Bell was distinguished by a special mindset and ingenuity, having a violent imagination, she was a dreamer. She told stories about her "uncle's" farm and her personal black stallion. She believed that in the future she would become a nun and constantly read bibles (she had about five of them). She never let her relatives or other children near her, except for her 13-year-old neighbor Norma. The girls were united by a difficult life in the worst part of the city.

2. John Venables and Robert Thompson

In 1993, 10-year-old John and his buddy Robert took 2-year-old James Bulger by force outside a shopping mall. The mother decided to punish the baby in this way and did not take him to the store with her. When she returned, the child was gone.

Surveillance cameras recorded how two guys forcibly took James away. What happened next shocked everyone. John and Robert took the child to the railroad, splashed paint, beaten, raped and left him to die on the tracks, so that the train would run over him and everyone would think it was an accident.

3. Alice Bustamant

Elizabeth Olten was only 9 in 2009 when 14-year-old Alice Bustamant killed her. She considered herself a kind of "informal", like goths or emo. It was fearless, sharp and a little wild. Having two younger brothers, Bustaman constantly mocked them, playing fictitious cruel games.

The girl was ruled by pure interest. “What does the criminal feel when he kills?” - it was to this question that Alice received the answer, beating a little girl, strangling her and at the end cutting her throat.
Two months later, the girl confessed where she buried Elizabeth's corpse. All this time, volunteers combed the forest, but their efforts were in vain.

4. George Junius Stinney Jr.

14-year-old George was sentenced to death for the murder of two little girls.
Stinney admitted that he wanted to make love to the older girl, but she refused. Then he switched to a more brutal method, but his nine-year-old girlfriend still stood in his way. Both victims resisted for a long time and George was tired of fighting. Then he took a large iron rod and beat the girls to death with it, repeatedly hitting them on the head with an iron object.
He was charged with first-degree murder the next day. Local residents rebelled and the young man was transported to Colombia, where he was sentenced to death in the same year.

5. Bari Loukatis

In 1996, Bari, dressed in the best cowboy clothes of the Wild West, went into the algebra room, Washington. Of course, classmates did not take this outfit in the best way and began to make fun of the guy, calling him stupid. At that moment, they did not suspect that a rifle, a pistol and 78 rounds of ammunition were hidden under the clothes.
In a fraction of a second, Bari opened fire directly on his classmates. The first to die was 14-year-old Manuel Vela, followed by a classmate who was shot in the chest. More than 20 students were wounded and two were killed. But the guy made a mistake, allowing people to collect the wounded, and the enraged teacher snatched the weapon from Lukatis's hands, ending the fun.

6. Kipland Kinkel

Kipland Kinkel was expelled from Oregon State High School in 1998 at the "vulnerable" age of fifteen, due to a gun he brought to class to show off. Instead of contacting law enforcement agencies, the guy was simply sent home.
He returned, but this time he took a rifle with him, sneaking into the school cafeteria opened fire. One student died immediately after the first shots, another died a few minutes later, 8 people were injured. As a result of panic and stampede, a fire started, which injured another 10 students. When the police arrived, Kinkel was disarmed and taken into custody, but they underestimated the level of intelligence of the boy who concealed the knife. Luckily for the police, he wasn't as good with a blade as he was with a rifle. Kipland claimed he wanted to commit suicide.
When the task force broke into the criminal's house, they found the dead father and mother. There were explosive traps throughout the house. To make the scene even more horrifying, he booby-trapped the mother's body.

7. Cindy Collier and Shirley Volk

While Cyndi Lauper was playing in every home on the radio in 1983, Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolf were having fun stealing cars and vandalizing.
On this day, the girls knocked on the door of an elderly woman. The unsuspecting old lady gladly let two 13 and 14 year old girls in for just a nice chat over tea.
They began to communicate with the old woman, playing with her like a cat with a mouse. After they removed all pretense and turned into crazed killers. Shirley grabbed the woman by the neck and held her while Cindy found a butcher's knife in the kitchen and threw it to her. Shirley Wolf plunged a knife into the body and repeated this 28 times while the old woman begged not to kill.
The girls happily confessed what they had done and said they would like to do it again someday.

8. Joshua Phyllis

Joshua turned 14 in 1998 when his 8 year old neighbor went missing. A week later, his mother began to notice a pungent smell from under the bed. What the mother discovered, she never expected to see in life.
It was the missing girl—dead, bloodied, beaten to death. The mother asked what had happened. To which Joshua replied: “I accidentally hit a girl in the eye at a baseball game. She was screaming and I panicked and started hitting my head with a rock.”
But the jury and the judge did not believe in such an excuse, since it is not clear why Joe beat the girl to death and later hid the body.

9. Willy Bosket

When it comes to crime at a young age, Willie is called an anomaly. At the age of only 15, he already had about 2,000 crimes in New York.
He did not know his father all his adult life, he only knew that he was in prison for murder. Willy is proud of such a "heroic" act of his parent.
Previously, the law on the punishment of juvenile delinquents was a little different. Children could not be held responsible for their deeds before the age of 21. Willy knew this very well and understood that nothing threatened him if he killed, stabbed or raped someone.
After the crimes he committed, the laws regarding juveniles were revised. And after the story with Willy Bosket, a new law came into force, it said: children of excessively aggressive behavior who are 13 years old are fully responsible for the crimes and will be convicted at the level with an adult.

10. Jesse Pomeroy

Such criminals come from the "old school". In a world of mentally unstable, insane, violent child killers, Jesse is at the forefront.
In 1874, at the age of fourteen, Jesse was arrested for the murder of a 4-year-old boy. But this was not the first act of violence, Pomeroy has spent the last three years bullying and torturing other children. His first arrest was for the sexual abuse of seven young boys when he himself was barely 11 years old. After he killed a ten-year-old girl, completely disfiguring her body. A little later, his mother's body was found near the store. The locals were against the death penalty for such a young guy, so he was sentenced to forty years in solitary confinement.

They say that a big maniac most often grows out of a small one. It is possible that some juvenile delinquents simply lacked parental attention, while others initially perceived their terrible antics as a game. One way or another, but the people who will be discussed later were included in the list of "The youngest criminals."

5. Craig Price

In September 1989, Joan Hilton (aged 39) and her two daughters, eight and ten years old, were found murdered in their own home. The victims were killed very brutally: the mother received 60 and the girls - 30 each.

Finding the killer was easy. It turned out to be 15-year-old Craig Price. There was more than enough evidence against Craig: a hand wounded by a knife, bloody gloves and On account of this guy there were a couple more crimes committed. Craig Price is in prison to this day. For his monstrous crime, this teenager gets 5th place in the ranking of "The Youngest Criminals".

4. Graham Frederick Young

This English boy was fond of chemistry to fanaticism. Or rather, poisons and their effect on humans. He was also very fond of stories about maniacs, and considered Adolf Hitler his idol. He began experimenting with poison at the age of 14. He possessed a truly natural talent for resourcefulness and acquired various poisons in such a way that no one suspected anything. The victims of his experiments were close people - friends and relatives.

Yang managed to poison his father, stepmother, sister. In 1962 he was arrested. During the investigation, it turned out that Graham is crazy. He spent 9 years (out of 15 awarded) in a psychiatric hospital and came out supposedly healthy. At large, the criminal found work and began to poison his colleagues. After that, he again ended up in places of deprivation of liberty, where he died in 1990. For his "inventiveness" Graham Frederick was ranked fourth in the list of "The youngest criminals."

3. Jessie Pomeroy

Jesse began to commit his terrible deeds from the age of 11. It is worth noting that this boy is the youngest criminal in the United States. He lured his comrades into secluded places and killed them with the most cruel methods. Before he was caught by the police, Pomeroy managed to kill 7 children. The maniac spent 21 years in the colony. After his release, he again took up his old ways and killed 2 children. The court sentenced him to Jesse died in solitary confinement at the age of 72.

2. John Venables and Robert Thomson

Two teenagers took second place - 10-year-old John Venables and Robert Thomson. These very young criminals kidnapped and brutally beaten a 2-year-old boy. To hide the traces of the crime, they decided to throw the child on the railroad tracks. They received 10 years in prison for each.

1. Francois Bertillon

All records were broken by 23-month-old Francois Bertillon. However, his crimes cannot be put on a par with the above. In 1891, the boy was accused of gluttony, as he bit into all the pears in the basket. The guilt of the child was fully proved by his father, who invented the Bertillonage. But despite such a minor act, it is believed that Francois is the youngest criminal.

And if the last crime causes only a smile, then all the rest inspire only horror and fear.