14-Year Old Kills Father for Taking Keyboard Away

[Jaded Scribe]

This is crazy. Unfortunately, I'm sure if CNN or other parental groups get a hold of it, it will become another story of how "violent video games are ruining our kids" rather than seeing it for what it is: a kid with severe emotional and rage issues finally acts out, and in the worst way.

The only question is which game is being blamed today? I call WWE and Triple H!

Peggle.

 

[WhyteBoy]

How can someone do such a thing for a keyboard. The kid is no doubt insane and should be kept in prison for his life.

 

[Zorg Machine]

the boy obviously didn't know about death meaning that his parents failed in his upbringing.
or he was just fucked up and would become a serial killer in the future (or die in a pile of cheetos in front of his computer)

 

[Zorg Machine]

the boy obviously didn't know about death meaning that his parents failed in his upbringing.
or he was just fucked up and would become a serial killer in the future (or die in a pile of cheetos in front of his computer)

 

[Zorg Machine]

the boy obviously didn't know about death meaning that his parents failed in his upbringing.
or he was just fucked up and would become a serial killer in the future (or die in a pile of cheetos in front of his computer)

 

[brucelee13245]

Major Edit: Just hit me he's 14. People, a person doesn't have to be a complete psycho to go out and kill. He's a teenager, going through the most stressful, confusing, and oppressive years of his life. Every think about that? That the pain of life is so much that he has isolated himself in the world of video games, and any attempt to rip him from comfort leads to blind bloody revenge? I have never met a truly happy teenager in Canada; I bet it's just as bad in Russia

This may be true, but he DID murder his father. Though it will most likely ruin the rest of his life, he SHOULD be prosecuted for murder. And although i agree with you about stressful teenage years, does this justify a right minded fourteen year old's brutal killing of his father? And who knows, maybe deep down he wasn't right minded and there was really something wrong up there.

That's the exact thing I said, though. He wasn't right minded. He'd isolated himself from society for a full week, disconnected from human emotion, proofed enough by the bloody murder of his Father. But when I hear him being accused of being broken in the mind, it sounds like you're all saying that he had a brain malfunction that naturally came into effect, that society and video games (or any other isolated activity!) had nothing to do with him losing the ability to love and forgive. Maybe it was his interaction with video games over interaction with humans that lead him to be this way?
Prosecution and social oppression are the reasons teenagers get like this. Charging them like a serial killer will do no one no good. Especially since the other victim is the mother, who would want the last thing to be her son in jail for a long time. "Punishment", in my opinion, should be to replace his father in some way. Get a job, take responsibility for some of the house work.Putting him in jail would just make the woman suffer more.

Being a law student I'm kinda looking at it through the eyes of the court. I do see what you mean about the lack of human interaction. But, I do believe that at least some jail time should be necessary in this case considering the crime was so horrendous. On top of that there definitely needs to be some sort of reformation (for lack of a better term)of the child.
One issue I see in the future (not knowing how the Russian Judicial system operated) is this tragedy will be on some sort of record and employers will have a hard time employing him. Lots of things are considered.

 

[hyperdrachen]

This is crazy. Unfortunately, I'm sure if CNN or other parental groups get a hold of it, it will become another story of how "violent video games are ruining our kids" rather than seeing it for what it is: a kid with severe emotional and rage issues finally acts out, and in the worst way.

Obviously the kid was playing farmville.

 

[KimberlyGoreHound]

That's fucking awesome. Way to get back at your dad, little man!

I have slightly more hope for this generation.

 

[Del-Toro]

Wow, that's quite the instance of nerd rage. So he just went back to his computer and started playing until he fell asleep? After killing his father with a sledgehammer? I can't imagine how much fun Soviet Russian authorities are having keeping this kid under control. Hopefully the urge to play computer games won't come back, because if it does, it can only end with large quantities of tazer time.

Also, did his parents not know he was psychotic? I mean, surely there had to be some prior indication that something wasn't fully right. Did he ever growl at them (like a dog) when they told him to do things? Did he have a habit of biting at people's hands if they got too close to his stuff? Seriously, if there were indicators, why didn't they take appropriate action, and if not, wow, that kid was good at acting. Either that or being denied his computer was the subconscious switch that turned him into a berserker. At least the Reds Russians are gonna put him away, surely there is enough evidence to convict him.

 

[Xan Krieger]

I just hope he gets the death penalty as done by a sledgehammer to the skull. Lethal injection just wouldn't feel right, like you're cheating him out of the pain he caused.

 

[SNIPERFOX ft. Harry P.Ness]

F*uck. if the amercans writer cnn and perantel groups get hold of this, it will be another


russains r bad, dey are ebil

violent video games r bad ban em ban em ban em

ARARARARARARARAR BAN GMES NAO OMG THIS IS EVIL RUSSAI IS EVIL KILL EM ALL USA A RULES BITCHES!!!!!!!!111

soryy for my ignorance for the last one. im trying to make a point

 

[SNIPERFOX ft. Harry P.Ness]

I just hope he gets the death penalty as done by a sledgehammer to the skull. Lethal injection just wouldn't feel right, like you're cheating him out of the pain he caused.

execution is not in russia. he will probably get 2 years in prison.

How can someone do such a thing for a keyboard. The kid is no doubt insane and should be kept in prison for his life.

he will be kjept in a mental prison
for 3-4 years.

 

[Xan Krieger]

I just hope he gets the death penalty as done by a sledgehammer to the skull. Lethal injection just wouldn't feel right, like you're cheating him out of the pain he caused.

execution is not in russia. he will probably get 2 years in prison.

How can someone do such a thing for a keyboard. The kid is no doubt insane and should be kept in prison for his life.

he will be kjept in a mental prison
for 3-4 years.

They don't have executions in Russia? This being the same country with a very bloody history under czars and communists? That's a hell of an image change.

 

[FungTheDestroy]

Major Edit: Just hit me he's 14. People, a person doesn't have to be a complete psycho to go out and kill. He's a teenager, going through the most stressful, confusing, and oppressive years of his life. Every think about that? That the pain of life is so much that he has isolated himself in the world of video games, and any attempt to rip him from comfort leads to blind bloody revenge? I have never met a truly happy teenager in Canada; I bet it's just as bad in Russia

This may be true, but he DID murder his father. Though it will most likely ruin the rest of his life, he SHOULD be prosecuted for murder. And although i agree with you about stressful teenage years, does this justify a right minded fourteen year old's brutal killing of his father? And who knows, maybe deep down he wasn't right minded and there was really something wrong up there.

That's the exact thing I said, though. He wasn't right minded. He'd isolated himself from society for a full week, disconnected from human emotion, proofed enough by the bloody murder of his Father. But when I hear him being accused of being broken in the mind, it sounds like you're all saying that he had a brain malfunction that naturally came into effect, that society and video games (or any other isolated activity!) had nothing to do with him losing the ability to love and forgive. Maybe it was his interaction with video games over interaction with humans that lead him to be this way?
Prosecution and social oppression are the reasons teenagers get like this. Charging them like a serial killer will do no one no good. Especially since the other victim is the mother, who would want the last thing to be her son in jail for a long time. "Punishment", in my opinion, should be to replace his father in some way. Get a job, take responsibility for some of the house work.Putting him in jail would just make the woman suffer more.

Being a law student I'm kinda looking at it through the eyes of the court. I do see what you mean about the lack of human interaction. But, I do believe that at least some jail time should be necessary in this case considering the crime was so horrendous. On top of that there definitely needs to be some sort of reformation (for lack of a better term)of the child.
One issue I see in the future (not knowing how the Russian Judicial system operated) is this tragedy will be on some sort of record and employers will have a hard time employing him. Lots of things are considered.

I can see your reasoning. My view is always to ask "is this the only way? Can it be done differently?".The stance I'm trying to take is that the justice court system is wrong in the way it tries to do things.The way I'm stating it, is the court is based on punishing actions, than finding a solution to the problem that caused that action. Putting him in jail is a punishment to his actions, but it also adds to the problem of isolation that he suffered from the beginning.
I agree, reformation is necessary. I have no idea what the Russian system is like, so I don't know what kind of treatment he'll get in jail.
Same to the other point, his future will be hard now. A permanent stain that will go beyond any of his jail years.

 

[NeuroticMarshmallow]

Well who doesn't find ample moments to horribly murder a loved one because you can't play virtual ping pong? I know I just jump at the opportunity whenever the times suits me.

If this kid had the mentality to up and bash his father's brains in with a sledgehammer because his keyboard was taken,I think videogames influence is the least of the problems here-the kid was probably screwed up to begin with.

Frightened, the boy's mother gave him back the keyboard, he returned to his computer and continued playing until he fell asleep.

Case and point. No comment on your dead father? none at all? ok. Back to videogames.

 

[leviathanmisha]

I swear something like this happens every bloody month!

I know, wasn't it just last month when that Chinese kid took a knife to the brain for hacking a game of CounterStrike in a internet cafe?

OT: This kids needs a serious psych evaluation...and NOW!

 

[Desert Warrior]

The world today is really fucked up.

 

[FinalGamer]

At least the boy will be punished when he´s old enough, what a psychopath.

 

[Northover32]

In Soviet Russia.. Son kills you!

 

[shadow skill]

Hah, and Ebert is crying about a character named Hit-girl in a movie called Kick-ass. All the while actual children kill their parents.