Written by: Estella Shrestha - 24007, Grade X
Posted on: 17 May, 2021
An eight-year-old Indian named Amardeep Sada, who is also known as Amarjeet Sada is one of the youngest serial killers. Due to his criminal acts, people and local Indians were truly shocked and it was spread globally.
Amarjeet Sada killed three children between 2006 and 2007. At the age of 10, Sada had murdered three children in twelve months; and one of them was his baby sister. Sada was born in 1998, in the town of Begusarai in the state of Bihar, India. His family was very poor and no one had attended school from their family. And for some reason, Sada beat his six-year-old cousin and eight-month-old sister to death in 2006, and 2007 respectively. Kushboo, a six-month-old baby one of his uncles informed that the family were aware of the first two crimes but kept them private as "family matters" to protect Sada. But they could no longer hide his heinous actions and protect him from the consequences he has to go for his heinous actions. The villagers from there suspected Sada of the deaths of the other children in his family. Noone even the authorities was not able to believe that such a young child could kill anyone. Sada strangled Kushboo, hit her with bricks, and buried her. Investigations eventually revealed all children had been murdered by beating. After the murder of his sister, Amarjeet again murdered another infant who was six months old. The infant was the daughter of his maternal uncle.
This was the case for Sada, where he had access to the medication and treatment he needed. Sada was released in 2016 upon his eighteenth birthday, but according to reports, his whereabouts are unknown. Amarjeet was sentenced only to three years in juvenile prison as no child can be sentenced for more than that. It is said that due to his instability in mental health, he was kept in a mental institution after his sentence was served. He was diagnosed with a conduct disorder claimed to be hereditary and which led him to commit violent acts. Amarjeet Sada’s whereabouts are still not known. It is unclear if he would look forward to committing more crimes as he’d done previously. However, it is safe to assume that the case of Amarjeet Sada is one of its kind, which involved not only premeditated thought-out murders of infants but also elaborate plans to hide their bodies, so he was not caught. Amarjeet would now be over 20 years old. It is very hard to believe that such a young boy has the capacity of killing someone. Amarjeet was also unaware of what is wrong and what is right he’s no sense for it. I did not expect that he would be only sentenced for three years, I expected it to be more than three years. His first victim was just a small infant who was only eight months old, he had the urge to kill the small infant baby, it is unbelievable that he killed his own baby sister.
Reference:
Sal, Feb 27, https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/how-this-8-year-old-became-the-youngest-serial-killer-in-the-world-8d668f24b8a8
