Unbelievable; Murder
The country is shocked, and the shock has probably spread over the borders, at least to the surrounding countries.
Friday morning around 11.25 AM Jesse Dingemans, an eight-year-old boy, was murdered. Murder is, of course, always shocking, but the shocking part of this story is that it happened at the primary school Jesse attended. This tragedy happened in a small town (and probably a close-knit community). The news reports that a twenty-two year old male has been arrested and is a suspect in this murder.
There are no real details but news reports say that no children have witnessed the murder, they were elsewhere in the building when Jesse walked back into his classroom to fetch something. The police thinks he walked in on a burglar trying to break into the school.
A school should be a place that is safe for your children to go to. You know in the back of your head that accidents can happen anywhere, just like burglaries. But you never think your child is not going to be safe in a school environment. After all, normally schools are safe, probably safer than the streets our kids are playing on these days. But just imagine sending your kid to school on a regular morning to never see him back again and having to arrange a funeral. It’s awful, and I feel for the family and friends of this little boy.
You have to know that killings in schools are extremely rare here, although every one is one too many. Therefor there aren’t many schools with strict security measures. That, in my opinion, shouldn’t be needed either. I wouldn’t like to see schools that frisk all students before they go into the building and where you have to go through a metal detector to prove you’re ‘clean’.
Again, my thoughts go out to the family and friends of Jesse Dingemans, and I wish them strength. Especially on Thursday, the day of Jesse’s funeral.
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12 Comments on "Unbelievable; Murder"
I don’t like to think about it either, but by denying it, things don’t get better. Some of us are confronted with it every day.
That’s terrible!
I cannot understand what would drive someone to hurt anyone else, let alone a defenseless child. I hope that, for the family’s sake, they bring to justice whoever is responsible.
omg thats terrible. Everytime I hear about a school shooting, it makes me want to homeschool my kids even more. (though they would grow up with the grade level of a 4th grader if I did that haha). The world is a supremely scary place these days, and it’s so unfortunate that the young and the innocent have to pay for the corruptions that beseach all of us. Hopefully some day people wake up and realize the horror they are causing. If I still live where I live when I have kids, the closest high school to me has metal detectors at every door. It’s sad that we have to go to those lengths. Good post!
Shocks me how cruel people are. These kids view the world with innocent eyes, and yet …
Sigh.
Yea isn’t it horrible. I was shocked when I got the hear the story. Unfortunatly the media wasn’t really cooperating by giving already details which weren’t correct. The police gave more details later. It seems Jesse was killed because he saw the person who might have killed him stealing something.
He was at the wrong time at the wrong place. It’s so sad.
It’s horrific, you think you send your kids to school, a safe place, and then an asshole comes along and takes literally everything away from you..
I know,
My dad who also works at a primary school and I will ask him later how they will deal with it. I don’t think they ever locked the front door or whatever but I am sure they will do it now for a unknown period of time.
You’re never safe ….. anywhere and age doesn’t matter. That’s the lesson we should learn from this(again) I think.
Locking doors isn’t the answer in my opinion. It will only add to and increase the feeling of not begin safe.
I think you’re more likely to get killed or injured on your way to school than anything like that happening at school.
Jesse was probably in the wrong place at the wrong time, that doesn’t take away the fact that it’s horrible what happened to him. But it’s not a reason to go into a frenzy and start panicking.
Hmm I don’t think it’s the answer to lock doors too since this person was a halfbrother of some other kid in that class? So the person was known at this school. Which is making it more horrible.
Locking doors, metal detectors and the like aren’t any sollutions. It was a burglary (or at least that’s what the reports are) and Jesse walked in on the burglar.
It’s a sad situation but burglaries can happen in your own home too. Actually statistics show that injuries whether or not they lead to death are most likely to happen in your own home. So locking up schools isn’t the answer, it was a tragic incident that took place at a primary school. But it could also have happened at someone’s house. Walking in on burglars happens more than we think.
That’s what I said ….or meant :p haha
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Man that’s terrible.
I don’t like to think about the kinds of people that can kill little kids.