Friday 12 December 2014

Meet Tristen Kurilla- the 10 year old boy who beat a 90 year old woman to death

10-year-old Tristen Kurilla of Damascus Township, Pennsylvania, (pictured above) has been reported to continuously beat a 90 year old woman until she died.

Tristen, who currently being held in the adult jail as he awaits trial is the youngest person ever to face a murder charge in Pennsylvania.

According to reports, Tristen was visiting his grandfather in October this year. said he entered the room of
Helen Novak-90 who lived with his grand dad on Oct 11 to ask her a question. But Helen screamed at him and told him to leave her room. Little Mr. Kurrilla then lost his temper, picked the woman's wooden cane and attacked the woman who was sitting in her bed.
Police confirmed that Tristen beat her with the cane, hooked it around her neck and pushed it into her throat for a few seconds then punched her five times in the throat and several times in the stomach. There was no one else at the time of the incident to help Helen.
However, when the boy's granddad returned shortly and found Helen unresponsive, he called medics and the police. When asked, Tristen told police he'd only meant to hurt her, not kill her.

Tristen's lawyers are trying to get the court to transfer the case to juvenile court and have Tristen moved to a youth detainment facility because of his age. That has not happened yet.
Tristen has also met with a psychiatrist and will soon meet with the defense’s mental health expert. 

Meanwhile, his parents are said to be devastated and claimed Tristen was such a good and kind boy who wouldn't a hurt a fly. Yeah, he skipped the fly and killed someone instead.



Credit: Wayne County Commissioners’ Office 









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