American Teen Murdered In Tobago

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - A 14-year-old American girl was stabbed and killed in a quiet seaside village on the island of Tobago, police said Saturday.

Kitty Nichole Pete was killed late Friday night in the apartment she had been renting with her mother in Charlotteville, a village on the northeastern tip of Tobago, said police inspector Glen Sharpe.

Police were searching for a 22-year-old local man whom the landlord saw leaving the apartment with a knife. The landlord told police he went to the apartment after hearing screams and found Pete's body on the floor. She had been stabbed in the eye and stomach.

Police said they believe the girl had been dating the 22-year-old.

Comments

[michele in bham]

What kind of mother lets a 14 year old dateat all, much less date a 22 year old?

[proudredneck]

He stabbed her in the stomach and the eye. What kind of mother lets her child date at that age and what kind of Mafia stabs in the eye? I really would like to know where all these crazies are coming from? Oh, don't tell me. I think I know.

[annie]

Not that I am defending the mother, but she may not have known. Perhaps she is a single mom and gone a lot of the time and didn't know her daughter was seeing the guy? If she did know, then she is a fool for allowing her daughter to date at that age anyway, much less an adult.

How sad though.

[Michelle]

It is so sad that so many of our young people are dying in such horrible ways. There are so many sick evil people in this world.

:-(

[Alvaro]

I'd need to read more on this story, but it seems to reinforce what I see a lot of, and that's parents being to engrossed in their own lives to notice what their kids are up to. It seems each new generation of parents does worse than the previous.

[proudredneck]

I think we are reaping from the 60s generation what was sewn and it seems to get worse with each generation. Parents seem to want children for ornaments, not thinking that they need dusting and polishing, not just at Christmas.

[Alvaro]

proudredneck

Could be.

I'm not the type to harp on the good old days, BUT just think, we (families) don't even have dinner time together. How sorely missed is that institution? And then we(parents) don't know why are kids get into the stuff they get into... Bring back FAMILY dinner!

[Ringo]

Oh Proudredneck, thats so true.

[Cindi in PA]

Everyone here has made good points. My kids were not allowed to date until they were 17. I remember in grade school at one school dance, a young man in 7th grade wanted to kill himself because his girlfriend broke up with him. My olds son was in 5th grade at that time. It was then that I made the decision, I would take that burden out of their life, for as long as I could.

What type of young man would date a 14 yr old is my question. That spells trouble from the word go!
Parents need to be a HUGE part of their kids lives, sticking your opinion in any chance you get. My kids never really minded, I was fortunate enough to have a supporting husband, I did not have to work, so all my time was devoted to my kids, they didnt mind, and neiter did I. Sad to say however, there are many parents that can not afford that luxery. We just did without a lot of material things while they were growing up. They grew up wearing 14.99 sneakers and we ate a lot of hotdogs. They often comment now, how thankful they were for the things we did for them. On the other side, my sisters husband ran off on her and her two sons. She often had to leave them alone for a few hours after school while she worked. There was not money for a sitter, the scum that ran off never paid a dime of support.

[idiot]

you are all out of touch. Why do you assume this 14-year old girl was a good girl? What if she were a murderer and got away with it (at some point in the past)? What if she had aborted 5 fetuses already, fathered by the man? My point is that you know nothing of the facts here. Her mom could be an invalid, dying, or a 28 year old prostitute. Or, she could be a teacher who neglected a great girl. Who knows? Why are you all injecting your own made up facts into the story? What if the 22 year old was a great family friend and the mother therefore let the girl spend time with him, with no idea that they were "dating?" The article doesn't even say they were dating, it says the police "believe" they were dating. That doesn't mean a whole lot. It could mean the she was sneaking out at night to have sex with him. Could be that the 22 year old looked like he was 15 or 16, so the mother didn't have a problem.

I hate this world--everyone assumes too much.

[toidi]

idiot,

I think you assume too much that everyone assumes too much. For all you know we know these people personally. You know, maybe you are really the 22 year old trying to cover for himself!

I could assume you are 22 years old and are still living in your parents basement.

Go play in the street ...

toidi

[idiot]

toidi-

1) spelling my name backwards doesn't make you clever.

2) the people to whom i refer above have implied that they do not personally know the 14-year old or the 22-year old. I do not assume this--they imply it by proposing their theories.

3) you may personally know these people. if you do, i give you deference. Either way, in the street i shall play.

4) I would give anything to be 22 again or to live in my parent's basement. They have a very nice basement and the rent would be much cheaper than my apartment.

5) i enjoy all too much using fake names and arguing with strangers in blogs on the internet. you never know whether you're talking to a billionaire or a homeless person who's using a computer at the library.

6) for all you know, i could be a billionaire or a homeless person at the library. (not relevant, just interesting)

[Alvaro]

Idiot -

It works like this:

Someone reads a story(of interest), another qualifies a statement with something like "could be", "I don't know for sure", "perhaps", etc... you get the picture.

Then other posters find something of interest in the post and they comment on it, or continue the speculation. Our whole discussion was based on the POSSIBILITY that bad parenting was involved, and we proceeded to share our ideas on bad parenting. OK?

BTW, I'm not a billionaire(just a broke person with lots of opinions).

[idiot]

Alvaro, a few of you qualified your comments by saying you were speculating. My posts weren't directed (or at least I shouldn't have directed them) at those of you who hypothesize. That's what I like to do. I don't like, however, people who jump all over a story and forget to say "IF this is so..." or "person X MAY have...." Those people are the foundation of the American "rumor mill."

[Loipeau]

And nobody cares, for it's not a child of a well-off WASP family.