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File photo of a TV remote. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

File photo of a TV remote. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) — Florence police say a 9-year-old girl stabbed her grandmother after they argued about whether she could watch television.

Investigators said the girl stabbed her 64-year-old grandmother in the back with a kitchen knife as she read the newspaper around 2 a.m. Thursday. The woman called paramedics, while the girl called her mother.

Authorities say the grandmother was treated and released from the hospital, while the Department of Social Services placed the child in the custody of another relative.

The girl will be charged in Family Court. Her name was not released because of her age.

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  • BJ

    Who let’s a 9 year old stay up until 2AM watching TV? Who’s reading a newspaper at 2AM? What a strange story.

    • George Johnson

      Gee…. ya think maybe that’s what she was stabbed over?? Grandma said “Go to bed!!” and the little witch said “NO! I’m not going and you can’t make me! I wanna watch telebisbion!” and then stabbed her??

      • Riley

        This story has dysfunctional written all over it and the above narrative probably fits the bill. This just further confirms my conclusion that the nation is morally, culturally, spiritually and financially heading straight down…. Better get prepared…
        http://survive-economic-collapse-NOW.blogspot.com

      • Prepared

        To Riley – more like the Frogs in the pan of water on the stove as the water is slowly heated. Cooked! Put a fork in it. Done! What was the “Grandma doing being up at 2am reading a newspaper? No intelligence, no self discipline, no love in that woman. Zilch. She frustrated the child beyond the child’s capacity to cope. Put the grandma in jail.

      • Wyrd

        Can someone who stabs their grandma at 9 be rehabilitated or will they forever be an inhuman monster?

        to prepared> So people who stay up till 2am reading a book are without love and discipline. The kid STABBED someone and you want to put the grandma in jail? You are a loony-toon

      • gb

        prepared for what? review the death sentence because someone touched his pee pee? that kind of thing? she stabbed grandma because she was driven to it? what a psyco you are.

      • Irini Romanides 2

        Our Orthodox Christian prophets foretold this: “Children will be so evil that even the demons will tremble!” We have the results of at least 2 generations of complete godlessness in our country: Christians have failed to take action to address the war against Christ in schools and universities. Our Republican (even conservatives) lack the force of their convictions to filibuster, amend, stop with Congressional actions available to minorities, this “Train Wreck” going on in the WH. “Good men do nothing” while evil in marxist ideology and Muslim President rush forward to do all they can to destroy our Nation and its people. God help us and give us the courage to act not just “wring our hands” like the Congress is so apt to do! Stand up, Tea Party people, and take action against mediocre, emotionally weak candidates (Romney and Santorum) who cannot answer adequately the President’s political machine and lies spoken every time he opens his mouth (and sycophants).

      • Larz Blackman

        I love how you people are shocked over the grandma being up at 2am. Outrageous! Someone stays up later than you! She was just asking for trouble.

      • Loadnabox

        @Irini,

        Think about this, you want Christ in the schools right? Who gets to chose WHICH version of Christianity is taught in the Schools? Catholicism? Protestantism? Evangelism? Mormonism? Baptism?

        Who says YOUR version is the right one the government should be teaching all the children? For that matter, now that we’ve hypothetically opened this Pandora’s Box, why Christianity? Why not Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, or Wicca?

        Do you see where this leads? There isn’t a war to keep Christianity out of schools, there’s a war to keep RELIGION out of schools because you create situation that completely defies the constitution and what it’s architects had in mind. You create a de-facto religion of the state.

        I pray religious extremists like you will come to understand what I’m trying to point out here, but I don’t hold my breath either.

      • Prepared

        Reply To Wyrd’s comment copied below -
        “Can someone who stabs their grandma at 9 be rehabilitated or will they forever be an inhuman monster?
        Wyrd’s question to “prepared” – So people who stay up till 2am reading a book are without love and discipline. The kid STABBED someone and you want to put the grandma in jail? You are a loony-toon
        March 9, 2012 at 10:34 am”

        Wyrd, what do you mean by “rehabilitated?” Are you admitting that the child was at one time a normal child with normal love for her family but SOMETHING was so serious in her young life that she reached out in rage to the one who could have helped her by giving some comfort and loving attention to the 9 yr old than she gave to her own interests, like her newspaper. She could have comforted her grandchild by going to the bedroom with her, tucking her in and reading a child’s book to her and talking to see what was troubling her, helping her calm down and get sleepy. Good parents and those dealing with children KNOW that.
        And, yes, I am saying that the provocateur grandma should be punished for disregarding, humiliating, frustrating, and forcing the child to react with anger. The woman knew what she was doing to the child. Likely not the first time the woman abused the child. People who do not protect and love children and do not attend to the child’s needs first when in a position of responsibility for children, are simply rotten. No excuses.
        A power bully who needs to be restrained from being with the child, or put through anti-bullying training. Children are suffering in our country from no parenting, from false education, from social mistreatment, and no one really cares. Tell you what, when today’s parents hit the “golden years” they will spend them in nursing homes, and not with the kids they are raising and ignoring. Those parents’ days are coming.

    • Alfred-King of Wessex

      There are people that live like feral animals……..they are the same ones that
      are dependent on taxpayer dollars, often elect not to work, and are advocates of government policies that call for massive redistribution of wealth, so even more of what you have (and worked for) becomes theirs.

      • Nate

        There are people who live steeped in ignorance and bigotry. They would blame everyone else for the dismal state of their own lives. Constantly able to find fault in others, they will lurk on internet message boards spreading their “truth” to people whether they want to hear it or not. It’s likely this is a necessary part of their lives, as they probably suffer from a lack of attention. Avoid these people at all costs, they will drag you down into the depths of despair, cynicism, paranoia, and ignorance just so they have some company.

      • John

        Yes Alfred, in other words, they are Obama voters! The filthy parasites and leaches that live off us live like jungle animals.

      • Mike Oxlong

        …And then there’s Nate…who enables the people Alfred is describing. Sleep well, Nate, you’re fighting the good fight. Give me your bank account number so I can wire you some of my earned money. You certainly deserve that.

      • BEHOLD… A RANDOM ACT OF JOURNALISM

      • karl anglin

        And television makes them even more foolish!

      • asdf

        While I agree that socialism is a bad thing, it doesn’t lead toward people acting crazy. No matter what the economic situation is a person can still have mental problems. I know many wealthy families with problem children. I am not wealthy, but I refuse to use public service and I work hard. One of my children has emotional issues that probably come from a few jerk kids in the neighborhood who make fun of him because they have more than he does as well as a few other things. Environment can be an issue, but not always.

      • mike

        That made no sense at all. I have spent plenty of time up past 2 am, and I’ve never had children, or taken money from the gov., i’m happily married and happily liberal. just like the majority of liberals. People coming over from the drudge report need to grow up, every time they post a story someone like Alfred comes along and just goes completely off of topic and spouts talking points. this is why i so rarely go into comments, because we can’t have a civil discourse, only name calling

      • unhappily constitutionalist

        Happily Liberal? There’s an oxymoron for you… er… moron for you.

      • Wyrd

        To:: unhappily constitutionalist

        WOW dude way to prove his point. You are a tool and you make people who care about the constitution look bad.

    • Betty Crocker

      Degenerates raising degenerates.

      http://911essentials.com

      • Pillsbury Yo Boy

        MCSO: Obama Eligibility Cold Case Investigation (Full Press Conference)

    • terryblare

      No you’re all wrong the question here is “whats in-between the lines”.

    • SoCalGal

      Well, it’s 2:00 a.m, and I’m reading this story. There’s nothing “strange” about reading a newspaper in the wee hours of the morning. Also, the article didn’t say they “let” the 9-year-old stay up until 2:00 a.m. watching TV. The article said that’s when the 9-year-old attacked. You need better reading comprehension skills.

      • moodswing916

        They need common sense too. Sometimes people can’t sleep or wake up in the middle of the night.

    • Alan

      Who actually calls themselves BJ?

    • mark

      my thought exactly

    • qwerty

      You are all assuming she was up UNTIL 2am. Old people get up really, really early. Maybe she was just up a little earlier than normal, reading the newspaper.

    • http://worldantiques.wordpress.com World Of Antiques

      U.S. Makes Legal Case For Targeted Killings Of U.S. Citizens
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  • Jack

    So, a woman is stabbed by her own granddaughter and you think that an appropriate picture to go along with the article is one of a TV remote? What were you thinking?

    • Emerald

      Well… It is a nice remote.

  • dave

    Yet again, another member of the human race, so unfortunate.

    • Robin

      Nope, primate.

  • Creed

    Journalism isn’t what it used to be.

  • Yasherka

    Awww, the girl will be a fine, upstanding member of the SEIU in a few years.

    • George Johnson

      Oh you got that right!! Hitler had his brown shirts, dimocrats have their “purple shirts”. Same function, thugs.

      • gatekeeper96740

        Blue shirts of he TSA.

    • Mike Oxlong

      She may even vote for 0bama this coming election. Age doesn’t matter to democrats…neither does a pulse. The ends are what justifies the means.

  • Jeff

    The CPS is the reason children act this way. The CPS is why children grow up to be spoiled rotten good for nothing brats.

    • BadPenny

      You got that right, CPS will now make the child a victim by saying grandma had no right to tell her she couldn’t watch tv

  • Joe Jackson

    Obama already called this girl….

    • ObserverNY

      LMAO!

    • BadPenny

      ROFLMAO! Good one!

    • Mike Oxlong

      Maybe she should have been the poster child for publicly funded birth control. She’d be a better case than the Flukemeister.

    • jslab129

      That’s too funny, Joe.

  • bob

    Well thank god they weren’t fighting over the crack pipe.

  • Rick O’Shea

    Both up and about at 2 a.m., sounds like a well regulated hossehold. The grandma didn’t pass along good societal habits to her daughter and it comes back to bite her when her grand kid shows up whille the daughter is probably in jai and stas her in the back at 2 a.m.l.

    • Eddy Welten

      If you stay up super late, it is easier to sleep during the day!

    • Tom

      The mother was working. Fail.

      • Tuna Piano

        Um, please show me in the article where it says she was working. It’s not there. It does say, however, that the girl was placed with OTHER family members. So, really Tom, the only FAIL here is yours…

    • Logic & Reason

      She was up reading the paper because she was afraid she’d be stabbed in her sleep. She also should have been sitting with her back to the wall!

  • Sun

    Oh my god what is this world coming to?

  • HansJurgen

    Yep, that’s what our current FOLLYWOOD promotes – violence, murder, burnings, … in real graphic details. And the make it look “cool” so that the punks in our society will build their character and culture around such behavior. And few parents monitor what kids watch these days, and FOLLYWOOD marketing/advertisers know it. Brainwash them into stupidity.

    • Tom

      Just cut funding to education. Ahem.

  • Progressive Loser

    cutslikeaknife…how about using your knife on your wrists and save the rest of us the trouble of reading and paying for a man on meds.

  • logicnothuff

    Momma’s spank your babies. The Texas judge was right on the money for spanking his daughter who stole music tracks. This 9-year old still has time to get good and spanked, not abuse, but spanks.

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  • Voice

    Nothing to see here People,move along.

  • Jerzey Boy

    So we are waiting for comments from the 9 year old’s baby-mommie and baby-daddy, if anyone can find them.

    • Tom

      The mother was at work. Supporting her daughter and mother.

      • Tuna Piano

        No, she wasn’t Tom. It’s not in the article and since she didn’t get released to mom, Jerzey Boy is probably right.

      • Tom

        Read another article. Research. Google is your friend.

  • Eddy Welten

    “9-Year-Old Girl Stabs Grandmother Over TV”

    How did the grandmother get over the TV?

  • gw

    Name withheld because of age? Heres her name: NUTS!!! Fing Nuts! lock her up and toss the key!

  • Sketch

    I hope you all find the afterlife to be the same level of compassion that you showed to others. That’s going to suck for you.

  • Sketch

    I hope that you’re all treated with the same level of compassion that you show towards others in the afterlife.

  • Dawn Diego

    This may have been the real cause:
    http://ssristories.com/index.php?p=publicized

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  • CleanFun

    Whip her little @ss.

  • Springer Rider

    I love the file photo. Seeing that remote tells it all!!

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