A 10-year-old boy has died after he stabbed himself in an attempt to stop his mother from beating him, Police in Tennessee say. Robin McKinzie, the child’s mother, has been charged with aggravated child abuse and endangerment.

Reports say that police found the boy with stab wounds to the upper torso at an apartment in Memphis last Saturday. The boy was unresponsive when emergency crews arrived and taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead shortly after.

McKinzie told police she was whipping her son with an extension cord and choking him when he got angry and ran into the kitchen and stabbed himself.

According to family members, 10-year-old Jaheim had been acting out and was known to have mental health challenges. Tonya Bailey, McKinzie’s sister said that she claimed her son had been off his medication and suicidal. She also asked the community not to judge her family.

“Just lift her up and that’s all that you need to do is pray and ask God to move on this situation and let the truth be known, and that God give her strength because he was only 10 years old,” Bailey said.

Neighbors say they saw the boy on Saturday afternoon, throwing rocks at a vacant apartment window before returning home after being called by his mother. Witnesses say they saw Robin McKinzie ten minutes later as she came out of her unit screaming for help.

The local Community has been left in shock following the incident. A close friend of McKinzie’s, who wishes to remain anonymous, has told how her friend had become distant over the last year.

“All I can say is that she was a good mother, and her son was her life,” said the woman. “Her son was her life.”

McKinzie was still in jail last Monday on a $100,000 bond and there were no reports yet as to whether she had an attorney. She will appear in court on Tuesday.

The Tennessee Department of Child Services claims they have records showing they have been involved in McKenzie’s home life over the last three years.

Jaheim was a fourth-grade student at Cornerstone Prep-Denver Campus. School Principal Michelle Lyons said grief counselors and police came to the school last Monday.

Memphis rapper, Mario Mims, better known as Yo Gotti has offered to cover the costs of the boy’s funeral in some capacity according to Fox 13. Yo Gotti’s manager said the rapper will be helping out, however, there is no word yet as to how much he plans on giving.

This Mom Picked Up Her 8-Year-Old Daughter From Detention Then Learned She’s Been Locked In A ‘Jail Cell’

No parent likes the idea of their child sitting in detention. Usually, detention equates to staying late after school to sit in a classroom, supervised by a teacher. But for 8-year-old Allegra, it meant something a lot different.

When Allegra’s Mother, Connie, got a call from the local elementary school saying that her daughter was in detention, she was upset with her daughter. When she went to pick her daughter up from the punishment, she got really upset with the school.

She found her daughter Allegra serving detention not in a classroom, but in what she calls a “jail cell.”

The school called the 2×4-foot area a “detention room,” however, Connie thinks it’s much more cruel than that.

Connie also believes that her daughter shouldn’t have been in detention in the first place. The school say s that the 8-year-old apparently threatened another student while her Mother insists that she was standing up for herself against a mean bully.

Even if little Allegra was rightfully in detention, Connie says the conditions she’d been kept in were completely unacceptable. She had apparently “been crying for hours.”

Since the incident occurred, Connie says Allegra has been sick for three days and that she is “traumatized.”

What do you think of an 8-year-old sitting in detention?

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