If some ghetto kid bashed your kid's head into a brick wall what would you do? Can young girls kill? Mary Bell, age 11, The Tyneside Strangler. " Mary acted alone in killing Martin Brown, and though both girls pinned the blame on each other for Brian Howe's death, Norma's (age 13) story that Mary was the culprit seems more believable. Yet, Norma returned with Mary to the crime scene, and helped to mark and mutilate Brian's body after death with a pair of scissors and a razor blade. ------------------------------ The mother accused Harris' daughter of striking her child in the face and bashing her head against a brick wall, and told police she wanted an arrest made. Portland Officers David McCarthy and Officer Matthew Huspek returned to the Harris home six days later on May 2 to question the girl. McCarthy wrote in his report that the 9-year-old gave "vague answers'' and appeared to get angry when pressed for more details. "I observed (her) breathing speed up, she looked down at the ground ... crossed her arms and would eventually answer my questions,'' McCarthy wrote. Finding the 9-year-old's statements "inconsistent'' with witnesses who described her as the aggressor, the officers took her into custody, accusing her of fourth-degree assault, the police report said. Scotty On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Ron Ristad <ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Two uniformed Portland > police<http://topics.oregonlive.com/tag/portland+police/index.html>officers > showed up at the home of a 9-year-old girl last May, questioned > her on the front porch about a fight at a youth club six days earlier, then > handcuffed her as she stood in a blue-and-white bathing suit. > > They drove her to police headquarters in downtown Portland, where she had > her fingerprints and mugshot taken. > > > Latoya Harris couldn't believe what was happening as she watched the > officers head off with her daughter in the back seat. The girl was still > wet after running through a neighborhood sprinkler, wearing flip flops and > a pink Velco wrap-around towel over her swimsuit. > > > "When they put handcuffs on, I thought, 'Wait a minute, this has got to > be a joke,' '' Harris recalled Monday. "The look on my daughter's face went > from humiliation and fear, to a look of sheer panic.'' > > > > http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/05/9-year-old_led_away_in_handcuf.html > > > -RR > > > ... > >