The Utah teen who lured and killed a girl in his neighborhood this month has a criminal record, and his victim was chosen at random.
The juvenile repeat-offender was on probation for a prior offense when he calculatingly enticed a 12-year-old to leave her house with a rehearsed tale of woe about a lost cat.
He then brought the girl to a nearby field where, it’s said, she was sexually assaulted and strangled.
Police discovered that the 15-year-old accused killer had used the same pretext of a missing pet on a less trusting 11-year-old only 20 minutes earlier, but to no avail.
He’s currently in custody on charges of aggravated murder, but it’s not the first time the deadly delinquent has seen the inside of a jail:
As recently as last autumn he was incarcerated for an undisclosed crime, and in his brief lifetime has already been found guilty of drug possession, theft, and burglary.
But even though this teenager’s criminal career has rapidly advanced to now include violent assault and premeditated murder, he can’t be put to death himself once convicted, because he’s only a child.
