After receiving an email from a neighbor of the 10 year boy in question, I was told a little more about the case and possible causes. There is never, I repeat NEVER, an excuse for actions such as these, but it is in our best interest as the public, to try to understand why these things happen. What happened to this ten year old boy to make him so angry inside that he would brutalize such a small child? What made his angry enough that he would hurt anything. Almost all of us have experienced rage, probably more than once in our lifetimes, but we are not driving to murder, especially not a small, helpless, innocent child. But this ten year old boy did that. Why?

Let's take a closer look into "Jon" (name has not been released to the public) short 10 year history. He was born sometime in 1992-1993 to parents who were both blind. "Jons" mother would die a short 7 years later in 1998 after a battle with cancer.

It has been said that the boy could often be seen leading his father around town, being his "eyes".

Three year old Amir Beeks was lured away from a public library he was visiting with relatives only to be be sexually assaulted and beaten with a baseball bat then dumped in a ditch. This is an article you would think the perpetrator would be a sick man, perhaps in his twenties, maybe late teens. This however, is not the case. This boy was murdered by an unnamed 10 year old boy.

Apparently, witnesses at the library led police to the suspect after Amir's body was found face down in a drainage ditch near the library. Amir was raced to the hospital, but pronounced dead.

The ten year old boy was charged with murder, felony murder, kidnapping, illegal weapons possession and aggravated sexual assault. However, he can not be tried as an adult, which means that the most he faces is a 20 year sentence just for the murder charge.

What makes this case so much worse is that this 10 year old boy had previously been reported to the state Division of Youth and Family Services by his neighbors who feared the boy was being abusive. The Division of Youth and Family Services has acknowledged that they have a case file on the boy.

In an all too familiar scenario, the boy's name is not being released, because he's a minor. This scene reminds me too much of Jon Venables, who was recently released from prison and given a new identity after the brutal murder he helped commit.

No one ever really thought something like this could happen here, in our country, but I think that in the back of our minds we all knew it was just a matter of time. My question is this ... where in the hell were this ten year old boys parents? And how could they have, in ten short years, created such a monster and NOT seen any signs? The neighbors saw signs of trouble, why didn't the parents?

It is my opinion that when you choose to become a parent, willingly or otherwise, you are responsible for that child until the day either you die, or the child dies. I firmly believe that the parents should be held responsible in some manner, they were responsible for him and they didn't do their job.

Here's a challenge for you, the next time you drive to the store, or into town or wherever it is that you go, look around you. How many children do you see walking around the streets on their own with no parents around? And I'm not talking about teenagers, take a really good look and you'll see children as young as 8 and 9 wandering around unattended. What does this say for our society? I remember a saying that I heard once a long time ago, something to effect that it takes a village to raise a child. No it does not, it takes two loving parents.