AMANDA’S MURDER
Amanda Simpson was a twelve-year-old girl described by Fortune magazine as “an animal lover, a saxophone player, a computer buff, and a volunteer at a local nursing home. One year she sold more than a thousand boxes of Girl Scout cookies, enough to win a week at summer camp to which her mother, a single parent, could not afford to send her.” But Amanda did not live to be a teenager. On April 28,1991, a group of juveniles broke into her house and poured gasoline throughout the kitchen. The ring leader knew he was about to incinerate members of the little family. “F…’em” he said. “Let ’em burn.” The torch was lit, and Amanda was horribly burned. She died five hours later. The girl was only one of the victims of an epidemic of violence by children that is sweeping the nation. Quoting Fortune again, “You have heard and read a great deal about guns and gangs and ghettos. But this onslaught…
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