Kansas City Police are reporting that A 5-year-old girl could face murder charges after she allegedly drowned her 18 month-old relative, Jermane Johnson Jr in a bathtub. Kansas City police are waiting for a medical examiner's report on the specifics of the drowning. Kansas City Police changed the originally ruling of the death from an accidental death because of the statements the child made to social workers. According to various sources, she told social workers that she held him under the water because he wouldn't stop crying. The children were not alone, The 16 year-old babysitter who were watching the children apparently fell asleep and when the toddler started crying, through interviews the police learned, she became irritated with him and held him under the water until he stopped crying.
Police said the 5-year-old was not arrested, and the case was referred to the Jackson County's family courts division. The decision on how to handle such a case when the accused is so young leaves prosecutors with an important and controversial decision to make. Juvenile justice experts expressed shock that police said they were treating the death as a potential homicide. But what do you think? Should the case be treated as a homicide? Or should the 5 year old go unpunished...what do you think?
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