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- Most often, we reserve what we consider to be
the most evil acts in society for adults,
members of society who simply grew up to be bad apples
that committed some of the most heinous crimes known to man.
But some of the worst crimes ever committed
were not committed by adults; they were done by children.
Rarely ever spoken of, there are some kids
that committed crimes so bad
it's going to send a chill up your spine.
Well, prepare yourself to dive into the mind
of the most twisted children that ever lived,
because here are the 10 most evil children in history.
Number one is Graham Young.
Graham Frederick Young was, at only 15 years old,
dubbed the serial poisoner in England.
Born in Neasden, northwest London, on September 7th, 1947,
Young's obsession with poison
started long before he was ever caught.
He tested a number of poisons on his family and friends,
making his father, sister,
and even a number of his classmates at school violently ill
by putting it in their food and drinks.
His first murder took place
on April 26, 1962, on Easter Sunday,
when his stepmother died after consuming some tea
that Young had added some chemicals to.
Young's aunt suspected him right away,
and the teen was arrested
and admitted to the Broadmoor Hospital.
However, after serving less than nine years
in the institution, Graham was released in February of 1971,
after which he went on a killing spree,
poisoning 70 people and killing two of them.
Young was again arrested on November 21st, 1971,
and eventually died of a heart attack
still a prisoner on August 1st, 1990.
Number two is Paul Gingerich,
Chase Williams, and Colt Lundy.
When a child decides to go down a path of murdering someone,
sometimes they need a little help.
Indiana high school freshman, 15-year-old Colt Lundy,
with the help of two of his friends,
shot his 49-year-old stepfather, Phillip Danner,
four times in the chest, killing him on April 20th, 2010.
Lundy's friends and co-conspirators
were 12-year-old Chase Williams,
who was on the lookout during the murder,
and 12-year-old Paul Gingerich,
who also shot Danner at Lundy's side.
The three boys murdered Danner
because they planned to run away and they simply feared
that he would catch them and stop them.
At only 12 years old, Paul Gingerich was the youngest person
to be sentenced as an adult and was given 25 years in jail.
Lundy was given 30 years.
And Williams, who stayed outside during the killing,
was given six years in a juvenile correction facility.
The first two boys are still in jail to this day,
while the third was recently released.
Number three is Edmund Kemper.
At only 15 years old, Burbank, California, youth
Edmund Kemper was arrested after he shot his grandmother
and then his grandfather with a .22 caliber rifle,
killing them both on August 27, 1964.
When asked why he committed the murders,
he chillingly replied, "I just wanted to see
"what it felt like to kill Grandma."
He added that he only killed his grandfather
because he knew the old man would be angry
over the death of his wife,
and the boy wanted to avoid getting in trouble.
Kemper was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic
and was sent to the criminally insane unit
at the state hospital, where he served only five years.
After convincing his psychiatrist that he was rehabilitated,
Kemper was released on December 18th, 1969,
his 21st birthday.
However, instead of becoming
a respectful good member of society,
he decided to viciously murder six women,
dismembering them and keeping their heads for trophies
before then killing both his mother and his friend.
After that event, he turned himself in,
explaining that the reason for his murder spree
was the revenge against his abusive mother
that was ultimately completed.
Number four is Jesse Pomeroy.
Back in the 1800s, a 14-year-old named Jesse Harding Pomeroy
became the youngest person convicted
of murder in the first degree
in the state of Massachusetts' history.
Between late 1971 and early 1972,
several young boys were lured into secluded areas
of Charleston and brutally beaten,
often left with mangled faces and horrible permanent scars.
Then, after moving to South Boston,
Jesse continued carrying out these violent actions.
But then, in March of 1974,
Katie Curran became his first murder victim.
Jesse kidnapped the 12-year-old girl and killed her,
hiding her remains in an ash heap in his mother's basement.
But it did not end there.
After a four-year-old's body was found mutilated,
Jesse was arrested and Katie's remains were discovered.
He was sentenced to life in prison
and was nearly hanged before the governor gave him a stay.
Jesse Pomeroy died at the age of 72,
still an imprisoned man,
on September 29th, 1932, of natural causes.
Number five is Michael Hernandez.
While some teenagers lose their temper and attack in a rage,
others like Michael Hernandez
wait patiently for their shot at revenge,
making lists and planning their actions carefully.
At just 14 years old, Hernandez wrote a list of people
that he wanted to brutally murder
and began his mission to complete it.
On February 3rd, 2004, after luring a 14-year-old classmate
named Jamie Gough into the boys' washroom
at their Miami, Florida, middle school,
Hernandez proceeded to stab him 42 times
and left him to bleed out on the floor
while he simply went back to class with an attitude
that suggested that nothing was wrong.
Fortunately, the teen serial killer wannabe
was caught before he could take out a second victim.
But the list in his pocket and later his own confession
revealed that he had no intention of stopping with Jamie.
Disturbingly, the list even contained his own sister's name,
who Michael was ready to murder
in addition to his friends and other students.
He was given a life sentence with 30 years tacked on
for attempting to kill another student
who luckily refused to enter the bathroom with him.
Number six is David Brom.
Arguments can escalate quickly
and often lead to physical violence.
But the thing is, when you're arguing
with an evil psychopath, no matter what age,
things can get even more out of hand much more quickly,
especially if the person that you're arguing with
is anything like David Brom,
who, at only 16 years old, single-handedly murdered
most of his immediate family with an ax.
Around 11:30pm on the night of February 17th, 1988,
the teen had a bitter argument with his father
in their Rochester, Minnesota, home,
an argument that left David so angry
that he decided the next morning
to take an ax to his father.
Chillingly, according to David,
his father kept getting back up,
so it took an even larger number of blows to kill him.
Immediately after, the teen struck his mother,
then walked into his 11-year-old brother's room
and killed him.
When he came back, he found his 13-year-old sister
standing over his injured mother
and brutally beat them both to death.
Strangely, just hours later,
he asked a female friend to skip class with him
and confessed all of his crimes to her,
after which he turned himself in.
Brom was arrested on February 19th, 1988,
and was sentenced to 53 years in prison.
He will remain in prison until 2041.
Number seven is Kipland Kinkel.
Born on August 30th, 1982, Kipland "Kip" Kinkel
was a troubled boy who was always easily frustrated
and anxious when he was in school.
He did very poorly in his educational pursuits,
repeating the first grade
and even was eventually diagnosed
with a learning disability.
By the eighth grade, Kip was hiding guns in his bedroom,
shoplifting, and had even been caught ordering books
on how to build bombs.
Then, on May 20th, 1998, 15-year-old Kip was arrested
and expelled from his school in Springfield, Oregon,
after a stolen gun was found in his locker.
Upon returning home after the interrogation,
the teenager pulled a gun from his collection
and shot his father, Bill, in the head,
soon after shooting his mother multiple times,
killing her as well.
But it gets even more disturbing,
as the next morning Kip brought his entire gun collection
to his former school and opened fire in the cafeteria,
killing two students and injuring 25 more.
Luckily, fellow students managed to subdue him
until the authorities arrived and arrested him.
When he was questioned,
Kip claimed that heard voices instructing him to kill
and that he wanted to die.
He is currently serving his 111-year sentence.
Number eight is Mary Bell.
Born on May 26, 1957, to a 17-year-old prostitute
in Newcastle, England, Mary Bell was the constant victim
of abuse from both her mother
and her mother's various clientele,
an abuse that she inevitably forwarded
onto others smaller than her.
On May 25th, 1968, a day before her 11th birthday,
Mary strangled Martin Brown, a four-year-old boy,
in a rundown neglected house in Scotswood, England.
Afterward, both her and a friend named Norma Joyce
broke into a local nursery and trashed it.
However, unfortunately, the police declared this
to be simply a prank and dismissed the evidence.
Then, on July 31st, 1968, Mary, with Norma's help,
strangled a three-year-old boy named Brian Howe
in a wasteland near the nursery that they vandalized,
with Mary doing unspeakable things to his body.
Mary was convicted of manslaughter on December 17th, 1968,
declared a psychopath, and was locked up for 12 years.
However, she was released in 1980 at the age of 23
and was given a brand new identity to avoid the spotlight.
This means that she could literally be
anybody, anywhere, at any time,
perhaps even your neighbor.
Number nine is Amarjeet Sada.
In 2007, at only eight years old,
Amarjeet Sada claimed the terrible title
of the youngest serial killer in the world.
Born in Begusaray, Bahar, India, in 1998,
Sada's family was very poor
and they lived in a small village.
In 2006, the young boy murdered his six-month-old sister,
taking her from her crib at the local primary school
where her mother had left her
so that she could run errands.
He brutally murdered her and buried her in a shallow grave
before casually returning home as if nothing had happened.
When he was confronted by people
that suspected him of potentially murdering her,
Sada freely and proudly confessed to the killing,
even personally leading villagers to the grave.
He was arrested on May 30th, 2007, but when questioned,
simply smiled and asked for cookies.
Unbelievably, under Indian law,
he was released after serving only three years
and is now freely on the street to do what he pleases again.
And number 10 is Jon Venables and Robert Thompson.
On February 12th, 1993, two-year-old James Bulger
was drawn away from the protection of his mother
while they were shopping in a New Strand Shopping Centre
in Bootle, Liverpool, England.
The two who abducted him were two 10-year-old boys
named Jon Venables and Robert Thompson.
They hurled stones and bricks at him
and even dropped him several times.
Believe it or not, those are the only actions
that I can comfortably list off
from the many relentlessly brutal actions
that those two evil teens took
while literally torturing their defenseless victim.
The ordeal cost the infant his life
and he was so horribly beaten that the actual cause of death
could not be determined.
The two boys were charged with the murder
on February 20th, 1993, and caused such a community uproar
that their families had to relocate
and change their identity.
Both Jon and Robert unbelievably spent
just eight years behind bars
before eventually being released
with their identities also changed.
The only thing that remains of their history
is their record as the youngest convicted murderers
in modern English history.
Who they are today is a complete mystery.
They could even be someone that you know.
So, those were the 10 most evil kids in history.
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in the comments below.
Are these the worst cases that you've ever heard of,
or do you know of an even more twisted one
that should've been on this list?
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