8-Year-Old Kills Father After Teaching Him How To Use Gun: Do you think that children should be allowed to handle guns?

I read about this case and found some very troubling aspects about it. First, I don’t know if the boy actually shot and killed his father and his father’s friend. Troubling is the fact that the police illegally questioned the boy without an adult family member or attorney present, someone who would have had his best interest at heart. It was reported that the child went to a neighbor’s home to say that he thought his father looked dead. There is no mention where the boy had been immediately before going over to the neighbor’s house to report his father’s still position. We don’t know how long the illegal questioning went on. What we do know is that skilled detectives have been able to break innocent adults to where they have admitted to a crime of murder in which they did not commit. The Michelle Dorr case immediately comes to my mind. She was the little girl who was visiting her father, who lived in Maryland (I believe Silver Spring, MD). When the father reported her missing, the detectives developed tunnel vision and honed in on him as a suspect in her disappearance. Under intense questioning, he broke and admitted guilt, stating that he murdered her and sealed her body in a wall in his home. Well of course it wasn’t true. Police later learned that a man with a history of mental illness, Haddon Clark, had been visiting his brother (or living with him) in the same home where little Michelle’s girlfriend lived. So, to believe that the eight-year-old committed the murders, I must have evidence. The premise that one is innocent until proven guilty is just that – a premise. Once the media prints or broadcasts the government’s accusation, too many people absorb it as truth. A wise attorney would caution his or her client from publicly defending himself or herself, because anything that the accused says or does can be twisted, misinterpreted, and taken completely out of context. Has anyone read or heard any interviews from the neighbor whose home where the eight-went went to alert someone? Was the boy bloody when he appeared at his neighbor’s door? Too many unanswered questions to assume that the boy, who should be considered innocent until proven guilty, actually committed the crimes.