A 10-year-old boy from Washington state was sentenced on Wednesday to up to 5 ½ in a juvenile detention facility for his role in a foiled plot to rape and kill a girl at his school, as well as to harm others, Reuters reported.
The boy was charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, juvenile firearm possession and witness tampering in connection with a plot in February at an elementary school about 215 miles east of Seattle in Colville. Prosecutors said that he pleaded guilty last month to all charges.
Stevens County Superior Court Judge Allen Nielson sentenced the fifth-grade boy to a minimum of just over three years in juvenile detention and a maximum of 5 ½ years.
An 11-year-old who is accused of joining in the plot is charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, possession of a dangerous weapon in the form of a knife at school and tampering with a witness, Rasmussen added.
The boys also packed ammunition and a knife, but they were stopped on February 7 shortly after they boarded a school bus.
They were spotted by a fourth-grader who saw the knife, and reported it to a teacher's aide, Rasmussen added. The names of six other targeted classmates were on a list the boys had, Rasmussen said.
One boy told investigators that he and his friend had planned to kill a former girlfriend because she was "rude" and "always made fun" of him and friends, court documents said. They plotted to entice the girl away from the elementary school, reports said.
