'He is not a monster': Mother defends her teen son who killed his toddler siblings because he didn't want them to 'grow up in hell'
The mother of a teenager who murdered his siblings is defending him and says that 'he is not a monster'
The mother of a 14-year-old teenage boy charged with murdering his two siblings is defending her son saying "he is not a monster". The Indiana teen was 13-years-old at the time of the murder and told investigators that he used a towel to suffocate and kill his 23-month-old half sister and 11-month-old stepbrother.
The teen was arrested last week on juvenile charges of murder which took place in May 2017. He killed his half-sister Desiree McCartney and then two months later killed his stepbrother Nathaniel Ritz at their home in Osgood, a rural community Southeast of Indianapolis. The teen's mother Christina McCartney told Fox 19, "He's not the monster that people are trying to portray him as."
