Thirteen year old girl stabs younger sister to death

13 year old elder sister who watches Tamil & English films without going to school ....stabs 6 year old sister for not sharing sweets!

What we hear these days is news of a violent nature which we never heard of days gone by. It is reported from a house of an unfortunate incident from Badalkumbura area in Moneragala day-before-yesterday evening where a 13 year old elder sister has stabbed her 6 year old younger sister to death.


The elder sister not being able to share some sweets with the younger sister, an argument had gone too far when their father had advised the elder sister to put a stop to the argument when she had later stabbed the 6 year old younger sister not being able to bear up her vent up anger in that manner.The elder sister had called the younger sister to the scrub jungle and had stabbed her in the abdomen area while the parents had warded the girl at hospital saying that the latter had fallen from a tree. The girl thus admitted to Badalkumbura Hospital subsequently passed away. It was revealed at police investigations that although the wounded child was supposed to have fallen from a tree, it was found to be false and that a knife had been used on the victim.  Medical reports indicated that there were more than ten stab injuries on the body of the deceased. It was observed that at the moment the girl was admitted to hospital, her bowels had come out from from her stomach while there were cut injuries on her back and hands. This tragic incident had taken place after the father of the two daughters had returned from from church 30 minutes previously. The neighbourhood testified to police that the suspect-child had been watching Tamil-English films constantly.

Though the two sisters had been for quite sometime been affectionate to each other living in a house in Badalkumbura area, Moneragala; from recent times they had been arguing over various trifle matters. The death had occured because they were not able to share some sweets -- though it was a trivial incident. The death had occured because they were not able to share some sweets, -- a trivial incident  going too far.   

Having taken the suspect 13 year old girl into police custody over the incident and questioned, she had replied, "At that time I don't know what happened".

This incident had taken place in their house at about 6 in the evening on the 21st at the address at Bangala Kotasa, Alupotha, Badalkumbura in Badalkumbura Police area.

The deceased child is Sadila Banu by name. She was a student in Year 1. The father and mother of the deceased's child had been previously married. Both of them has had children from the first marriage. There are only two daughters from the second marriage and while these 13 year old and 6 year old daughters had been to Kalugahavadiya School, the elder girl only had stopped going to school.

The mother of these two daughters had been employed as a housemaid in Middle East and had returned to the island about 3 months ago. She was expected to leave for Middle East once more next week.

The elder sister who committed the murder had stopped attending school because she has had to attend to domestic work in the house as the mother had gone overseas.

It was this same sister who had looked after this younger sister from small days. Apart from that, it was she who attended to cooking-work and all other domestic duties in the house. She had spent her time in great mental pressure and had not shown a liking for the mother going overseas again. Her attitude of mental irritability had surfaced in this manner.

The dead body has been sent to Moneragala General Hospital for the post-mortem. The Magistrate had ordered Badalkumbura Police to produce the suspect today (22) to Moneragala Magistrate Courts.

The video report of Swarnavahini about the incident, from BELOW