Who was the youngest person convicted of murder?

Answer 1

Male

Nathaniel Abraham.

At age 11, Abraham gunned down a man in 1997. Convicted of murder in 1999, he spent the next 10 years behind bars, his formative years in juvenile detention.

Abraham was released in 2006, year later in 2007 was convicted of drug possesion

And without pause, he now at 22 wants to be a rapper.

In 1993, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson (10) (both born in August 1982) both played a part in the torture (it is said that accusations of molestation are untrue) and killing of James Patrick Bulger (2) in Bootle, Liverpool, England. They were sentenced to a minimum of 10 years and released in 2001 under criminal protection.

Female

The Richardson family murders involved the murder of three members of the family by the 12 year old daughter of the family in April 2006. On July 9, 2007, the girl (13) was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder in the killings. On November 8, 2007, she was sentenced to the maximum allowable sentence of 10 years.

Mary Flora Bell (born 1957, England) was convicted in December 1968 of the manslaughter of two boys, Martin Brown (4) and Brian Howe (3). Bell was 10 at the time she commited the murders. On December 17, 1968 she was acquitted of murder but convicted of "manslaughter due to diminished responsibility" as she displayed "classic symptoms of psychopathology".

In the book Kids Who Kill by Charles Patrick Ewing he writes of two brothers from Missouri ages 4 and 6 who attacked and killed a baby girl because "she was ugly". Its a good read, check it out.

Answer 2

The youngest recorded convict to be transported to Australia was a nine year old boy, John Hudson, a chimney sweep who was convicted for stealing clothes and a pistol.

Answer 3

years old when found about to shoot his sister because she took one of his Video Games