11-year-old immigrant tells judge he is going to kill him

Carolyn Hileman* | September 29, 2007

By Harry Hitzeman

In mid-October of 2002, an 11-year-old from Aurora was before a juvenile judge, facing a nine-day youth home sentence for a burglary charge. Instead of expressing remorse or empathy for the victim, the boy lashed out. “I’m going to kill you,” the boy told the judge, according to testimony Tuesday from Thomas Burke, senior intensive probation officer with DuPage County. Prosecutors want to try the boy — who turns 16 next month — in adult court in the murder of Marilyn Bethell, a 47-year-old substance abuse counselor from Aurora who worked in Hoffman Estates.

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