Hi, everybody. Cheryl Ackison here. I hope you enjoy this special from the archives edition of Full Measure After Hours.

Hi, everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of Full Measure afterours. Today I speak with Marion County, Florida

Sheriff, Billy Woods, where one of the most horrific violent crimes committed by children is getting

ready to go to trial. As I began looking into America's juvenile crime wave, a fitting place to go seemed to be Marion County, Florida.

That's where a really horrific crime was committed last year. It's getting ready to go to trial pretty soon here.

In this case, there were apparently six children driving around in a car, according to officials, trying to figure out

who they might rob to be able to buy marijuana. Well, it ends up that three of the children

shot execution style three of the other children and dumped their bodies. And these bodies

were being discovered over the course of the next day or day and a half.

Actually, one of the young girls that was found initially was still breathing but later passed away.

And one of the shooters was 12 years old. And according to the sheriff in Marion County, Billy Woods,

maybe one of the most shocking things,

at least to him, was that when these boys were caught and charged, the 12-year-old,

he says, showed absolutely no remorse. Now, of course, they haven't been to trial yet,

but the idea that they wouldn't be more upset,

whether innocent or guilty of this crime, there doesn't seem to be any denial that they were

all together the night that this happened, but the affect or the emotions, the lack of emotions

shown by this 12-year-old was really something as far as the

sheriff was concerned. And it turns out that across the country, children are increasingly

committing and becoming victims in serious crimes. The latest numbers I had found put out by the FBI

when I started looking into this were more than three years old.

I'm not sure why they can't be a little more updated, but even three years ago in 2020, actually coming on four years ago,

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