A 12-year-old girl in Tennessee has been charged with murder, accused of smothering her 8-year-old cousin as the younger girl slept. A relative said they had been arguing over an iPhone.

A security camera recorded the killing, inside the bedroom they shared on July 15 in Humboldt, Tennessee, the county prosecutor said.

The recording shows the older child using bedding to suffocate her cousin as the younger girl slept in the top bunk, Gibson District Attorney Frederick Agee’s statement said. After the child died, “the juvenile cleaned up the victim and repositioned her body,” Agee said.

A relative told WREG-TV in Memphis that the girls had been arguing over an iPhone after coming from out of town to stay with their grandmother.

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    5 months ago

    Noone is saying you have to put anything in your house or get any type of device.

    I’m just saying that you can actually test this, in a way that does not jeopardize your privacy, such as in a controlled lab environment, but you’re unwilling to do this. You certainly do not lack the ability to do so.

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        5 months ago

        I could, but I won’t.

        I believe you would just come up with another reason you “can’t” do it, just like being “physically incapable” of it. Add to that I’ve seen other people already do it and I have no reason to not trust their findings that I think it would be a waste of money to try and convince someone who would probably just ignore their own eyes anyway.