Swirlz
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According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/193411.pdf (page 3) in 1997, there were less than ten homicides by children 10 and under. Then subtract those involving guns. (Same study finds 54% of homicide offenders age 10-13 used a firearm) Then subtract those where the victim was an infant or very young toddler. What is left is so rare as to practically not exist. Nine-year-olds do not go around beating or choking six-year-olds to death. While murders of children by parents are so common that they have been studied at length by academics, mental health professionals, and law-enforcement, murders by children under 10 are so extremely rare as to be difficult to even find examples of.