Boy admits stabbing mom 111 times

[proud2BlibKansan]

Mom discovered him trying to learn how to make a bomb

Friday, February 10, 2006; Posted: 3:53 p.m. EST (20:53 GMT)

PONTIAC, Michigan (AP) -- A 16-year-old boy pleaded guilty Friday to murdering his mother by stabbing her 111 times last year after she discovered he was trying to learn how to make a bomb.

Under a deal with prosecutors, Christopher Dankovich agreed to serve up to 34 years in prison.

"He didn't want to leave prison in a casket," prosecutor Lisa Ortlieb Gorcyca said.

Had he been convicted of first-degree murder, Dankovich would have faced a mandatory life term.

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/02/10/mom.stabbed.ap/index.html

[xchrom]

1. can i say ''overkill'' here?

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Poor baby doesn't want life in prison

He should have thought of that before he started building that bomb.

[MuseRider]

4. Or stabbing his mother!

Holy crap, this is a terrible story. I simply do not know what would make a family like that. What would drive a kid to something like that? Sad sad sad.

[xchrom]

5. one hundred and eleven times!

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. I always wonder how long these kids have been troubled

before they snap. The glass is always half full to me. I work with troubled kids; I know they can be helped. This kid didn't just wake up one day and decide to build a bomb and kill anyone who tried to stop him. How many adults in his life knew he needed help? What did they do to try to help him?

[ikojo]

11. A lot of parents do not want to admit that their progeny

are anything less than perfect. My mom did not want to admit that my brother had serious emotional problems. She always said (and I am sure hoped) that he "grow out of it." Didn't happen.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. For some parents,

Denial is just a river in Egypt.

[Garbo 2004]

6. Or stabbing his mother 111 times. n/t

[catmother]

3. wonder what he was planning to do with the bomb?

:shrug:

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. He's lucky he's not muslim

he'd be on his way to Gitmo instead.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Yeah I wondered that too

[Launch Pad]

10. I wonder if he will claim self-defense

Just a thought.

[Endangered Specie]

13. should have fried his ass.

[Rex]

14. 34 years

My exact age of being alive. Long time. 111!?!?! And NO ONE saw this coming at school or home? This scares me.

[WinkyDink]

15. Didn't his arm get tired? I mean, seriously! WTH??

Just another psycho who ought not to have been born.