10 year old boy charged with deadly arson
Posted September 22nd, 2007 by minortopics | via www.daytondailynews.comWhat 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.