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The World’s Youngest Serial Killer
He was just 7-years-old when he made his first kill.
Mushahar is a small village in rural India. A village filled with playing groups of children, hard-working women chatting over chores and men out working the fields from dawn til dusk. People have very little money, but their sense of family and community is strong.
Life in Mushashar was tough. An when a 6-year-old girl from the large Sada family stopped playing out with the other children, the villagers gave the family space to grieve, believing that the child had passed away.
A few months later, the Sada family experienced another loss. This time an 8-month-old baby. Again, the villagers gave the family space to grieve, not pressing questions on them as to what had happened.
Not many months after that, a mother from the village arrived to collect her daughter from daycare. Baby Kushboo was no where to be seen. The nursery attendants couldn’t believe what had happened; the baby had simply vanished.
Hysterical, the mother ran through the village, begging anyone for information on where her baby might be. In her distress, she bumped in her neighbour and was shocked to hear that person tell her to come along to the telephone to call the police immediately. The neighbour was a member of the Sada family and had a terrible notion of what may have happened.
When the police arrived, the baby’s mother and her neighbour told them about Kushboo’s disappearance and suggested that they urgently interrogate to one person in the village.
That person was 8-year-old Amarjeet Sada.
The boy was playing nearby and police called him over, asking him casually if he knew Kushboo’s whereabouts.
He told them that he did.
A little surprised at the boy’s nonchalance, police took him aside and pressed him further. Without hesitation, Amarjeet looked the officers in the eyes and explained very calmly that he knew where the baby was because he had killed her earlier that day.
The policemen were sceptical. Amarjeet’s calm manner and his terrible story surely could not sit together.
