Current Events II

An Echo of the television soap

 This current event was done by 14 years old boy who's name is Daniel Bartlam. According to this news, he was found guilty of battering his mother Jacqueline Bartlam to death with a hammer. And he did that to such an extent that the prosecution says the boundaries between real life and fiction became very, very tragically blurred.

Notebooks found in his bedroom contained writings about sexual abuse, rape, and death. Also, files of websites he had accessed on his iMac computer were mainly violent, pornographic and relating to murder. The files included titles 'How to get away with murder', 'Can you get away with murder?' and 'People who got away with murder in shows'.

Additionally, as stated in news, a deleted story created four days before the real crime in which the main character, called Daniel, who "from around 2012 up to his death in 2047 got away with rape, murder, GBH, robbery and during his teenage years' countless vandalisms against his neighbors". The story contained a description of "Daniel" murdering his mother "Jackie" with a hammer, making it look like a break-in and then setting fire to the house and rescuing his brother before getting neighbors to call the police.

 The boy spent the time to plan how to kill his mother, and he motivates this plan from the television soap. As similarly with post <Current Event I>, the boy also affected negatively by media and the media made the basis of crime. Daniel Bartlam implemented his plan by making story contained murdering mother with a hammer and this think and story are composed of other media. This teenager's crime shows how it is important to approach and expose to the sane media for children, how it is necessary to educate and control the usage of media for children.

Citation of the news:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9180872/Coronation-St-copycat-killer-locked-up-for-16-years-over-hammer-attack-on-mother.html