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We can’t believe this is the second type of this story in so many days. Sometimes the world really sucks.

A 14-year-old South Carolina boy accused of raping and killing an 8-year-old girl is due in court.

Master Deputy Mike Hildebrand says a hearing is scheduled in Family Court in Greenville at noon Thursday.

Dymia Janae Woody was reported missing Monday evening. Deputies found her body early Tuesday in a nearby mobile home that had no electricity. An autopsy showed she died of asphyxia after being sexually assaulted.

What a horrible waste. Is a 10 year old boy even capable of understanding the enormity of the situation? Why would he do such a thing? How could nobody see thing coming? Should a 10 year old boy be locked away fro 10+ years for something he might not have fully understood?

Timothy Douglas Byers was arrested Friday “primarily for his own safety,” said Darke County Prosecutor Richard Howell. He said Byers is the youngest Darke County child in recent memory to be locked up for a crime.

“This is the most tragic and certainly horrifying (case) that I or any one else can remember,” Howell said.

The boy didn’t intend to kill, the prosecutor said, but he was charged with the murder counts because the deaths occurred during the commission of another crime, the aggravated arson. If he is convicted, incarceration “could conceivably extend beyond his 21st birthday,” Howell said.

I will never understand why a mother would hurt her child, let alone, murder their little boy.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - The young mother called police with a story out of any parent‘s nightmares. Amanda Reagan Smith says a knife-wielding carjacker forced her to drive to a secluded, wooded area in Greenville, S.C. Once there, he pushed her out, locked the car doors and pressed a pillow to the face of her 7-year-old son.

Now, more than a month after the Aug. 12 killing, the case remains unsolved. And the worry that once filled Greenville has sharpened into questions about his mother‘s account. The case has also revived vivid memories of another mother named Smith — Susan Smith — who told a similar tale.