Unhappy with mom's Christmas gift, teen threatens her with butcher knife [View All]

[Fenris]

http://www.greenforesttribune.com/articles/2004/12/08/news/s4.txt

GREEN FOREST -- Unhappy with the Christmas gift his mother had selected for him, a Green Forest youth allegedly assaulted her and threatened to cut her head off with a butcher knife.

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"She told me that her 13-year-old son had just discovered that she had not purchased him the present he had requested," Hayden said. "She said he demanded she return the present and give him the money. When she refused, she said he grew angry and picked up a kitchen knife."

Hayden said the woman reported that she felt threatened and attempted to physically disarm the youth. At that time, her son allegedly kicked her legs and punched her abdomen with closed fists.

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"In a post Miranda interview," Hayden said, "the juvenile admitted to threatening his mother with a knife, and he said he had threatened to cut her head off. He said that all would have been well if she had just bought him the correct present."