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What the ?!
http://www.aolnews.com/nation/articl...-says/19428962
The death of a 6-year-old Oregon girl sent to her room after exchanging cross words with her mother has been classified as a suicide by a state medical examiner.
After her mother told her to go to her room, Samantha Kuberski, a first-grader in McMinnville, Ore., crawled into an unused crib, tied one end of a belt around her neck, the other on a bar of the crib, and hanged herself, according to reports.
The incident happened on Dec. 2, days shy of the girl's 7th birthday, making her the youngest person in Oregon history to have committed suicide.
But McMinnville police investigating Samantha's death are not convinced that the girl understood the consequences of her actions. They are challenging the classification of suicide. Samantha's death, they argue, was the result of an accident.
"The disagreement is a little more philosophical than it is material to the case," McMinnville police Capt. Dennis Marks told KGW News in Portland. "It's not that we disagree with the mechanics of what happened. It's the finding that a 6-year-old could form that kind of intent."
Dr. Clifford Nelson, Oregon's deputy medical examiner, made the suicide determination based on a variety of factors, including interviews with the grief-stricken family. And Dr. Karen Gunson, the chief medical examiner for the state, said that investigators learned that the girl's parents had warned all of their children of the dangers of playing with belts around their necks.
"Statements were made by the girl that indicated she was going to kill herself," Gunson told KGW News. "She had the means and she realized that if she put something around her neck that was dangerous and could cause death -- because her parents had told her that. My contention is that shows intent."
Samantha threatened to kill herself as she was sent to her room, according to her family.
Citing a respect for privacy for the family, Brad Berry, the district attorney in Yamhill County, has refused to release police records of Samantha's death to the press. He said that no criminal charges have been filed.
What the ?!
good for her.
j/k - that's a pretty ed up story
she was smarter than me when I was 6
saved herself the trouble of living on earth
Wow.......
My guess is she wanted to scare the living out of her parents by acting like she was going to commit suicide and accidentally ended up dying. Tragic accident IMO.
oh and... DAMN that was one intense 6 year old
Ok selfishers
was this little girl being selfish?
/me pets MiamiHeat, it'll be okay champ!
This is ED UP.
That is all.
That is freaken awful.
Damn, Wade hasn't even left to New York yet.
All children are looking for at that age is attention... and this would have been an attempt for attention that went horribly wrong.
oh well dumb
wow... the things that go through kids' head these days
damn....at 6 yrs old, i wonder if i even knew the concept of "death".
One less emo in the world...
one less deviantart user
She must have found out that she lived in Oregon.
wow, rolling her eyes wasn't good enough???????
why isnt anyone calling her selfish?
YUP AGREED its pretty stupid to call someone who commits suicide "selfish" the problem goes a lot deeper than that
Pretty cut and dry. She threatened it, then she followed through. Sounds like suicide to me.Samantha threatened to kill herself as she was sent to her room, according to her family.
Problem is: why didn't the parents do something about it? Perhaps it's not the first time she said it.
what family specifically warns their kids about the dangers of playing with belts around their necks?
when a kid puts one around her neck saying shes gonna kill herself
At six years old, you can't even form the requisite intent for suicide. Like the article gets into, it's a philosophical distinction, but I doubt she had any concept of the finality of her actions. Just a child lashing out.
or maybe vice-versa....
"now, never put a belt around your neck and tighten it verrrry tight because then we'll be really upset about it."
what you don't know won't kill you, apparently
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