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Meet 4 Children Sentenced To Life Imprisonment And What They Did To Deserve That

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1 year ago

September 3, 2023

The laws of the nation stipulate that, depending on the gravity of the offense, even a junior with less than ten years’ experience could be given a life sentence.

Today’s post will focus on a few young children who were sentenced to life in prison when they were still very young. The majority of these children have spent their entire lives behind bars and have never truly known what it is like to be free.

Some of them had committed first-degree murder, and their parents had no way of protecting them from the severe legal repercussions. Some of them are already elderly while still in prison, and many of them have spent their whole lives behind bars. Because many of them became murderers at a young age, incarceration was necessary to keep them from committing additional crimes. Try it out and let us know what you think.

1 Tate Lionel

This boy right here called Lionel Tate was just a little over 13 years old when he got sentenced to life imprisonment. He was found guilty of beating his 6 years old neighbour to death. It happened in the year 2001. Lionel is currently 32 years old now and he’s still serving his life sentence.

According to his reason for killing the girl, Lionel claimed that he was just practicing his boxing and wrestling moves on her because he wanted to be a boxer.

2. Smith

After being accused of murdering a four-year-old kid, Eric was sentenced to death at the age of thirteen.

3.Joshua Phillips

This boy committed his murder when he was just 14 years old, he killed his 8 years old neighbor by stabbing and strangling her to death. He then went ahead to hide the girl’s body under his bed, it was after 8 days that the Mother saw the body when she was cleaning his room.

4.Brian Lee Draper

In the year 2006, this young boy was 16 years old when he was sentenced to life imprisonment after killing his classmate. Be was accompanied by his friend, they went to her house and stabbed her 29 times all over her body.