{"id":2984,"date":"2025-11-25T23:45:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/a-ten-year-old-murderer-named-mary\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T23:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:45:18","slug":"a-ten-year-old-murderer-named-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/2025\/11\/25\/a-ten-year-old-murderer-named-mary\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ten-Year-Old Murderer Named Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She was a cute, innocent looking girl<br \/>\nat age 10<\/p>\n<p>but behind the cute, innocent face<br \/>\nunfathomable evil lurked<br \/>\nfor such a young girl<\/p>\n<p>she strangled two little boys<br \/>\nto death, a 4-year-old<br \/>\nand a 3-year-old<\/p>\n<p>the reasons she was so evil<br \/>\nmay have been<\/p>\n<p>a prostitute mother, who it\u2019s believed<br \/>\nphysically abused her<\/p>\n<p>and when Mary was born told<br \/>\nthe nurses to \u201ctake that thing<br \/>\naway from me\u201d<\/p>\n<p>mood swings and bed wetting<br \/>\ndisturbed and unpredictable<br \/>\nbehavior<\/p>\n<p>attempts to strangle or smother<br \/>\nclassmates prior to the murders<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not making excuses for<br \/>\nMary<\/p>\n<p>I just think hers is a case<br \/>\nor nurture instead<br \/>\nof nature<\/p>\n<p>and I wonder if Mary had<br \/>\na loving, caring family<\/p>\n<p>if she would have turned<br \/>\nout the way she did<\/p>\n<p>and I wonder why in this<br \/>\nworld such horrible things<\/p>\n<p>have to happen<\/p>\n<p>unendingly<br \/>\nall over this world.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was a cute, innocent looking girl at age 10 but behind the cute, innocent face unfathomable evil lurked for such a young girl she strangled two little boys to death, a 4-year-old and a 3-year-old the reasons she was so evil may have been a prostitute mother, who it\u2019s believed physically abused her and&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/2025\/11\/25\/a-ten-year-old-murderer-named-mary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}