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Boy, 9, stabbed mum to death after argument about his behaviour

A nine-year-old boy stabbed his mum to death after an argument about his behaviour. The schoolboy stabbed Caline Arruda dos Santos, 37, in the stomach after she asked him to stop playing in the street. Afterwards, at her partner's home - the boy's stepfather - she apparently warned her son that she would inform a relative about his behaviour, the Civil Police report states, via Brazillian news site Metrópoles. The child then allegedly went to the kitchen and took a knife before hiding it under the sleeve of his top. Caline and her eldest son, 19, were at the door leading into the street when the mum was stabbed. Witnesses claim that shopkeeper Caline asked her son for one last hug as she lay bleeding , the Mirror reports. According to one witness, she heartbreakingly said: "Come here and give me one last hug, because I won't survive." A neighbour then took Calina to A&E, from where she was transferred to Parelheiros Hospital in Brazil. Tragically, she was pronounced dead on arrival. Due to the boy's age he cannot be prosecuted by the Children's Court. He's currently under the care of a cousin of the victim. In an interview, the relative stated that the boy apparently hasn't "realised" yet what he had done. "He knows his mother died after another boy told him so," she said. The case remains under investigation by the Civil Police. It comes after a teen was seen grinning in court after she was charged with the murders of her mum and stepdad. Sarah Patrick, 17, was arrested after her mum, Kirstin Brock, 41, and stepdad, James Brock, 45, were found with multiple gunshot wounds inside their home in Georgia, US. As she waited to be called into the courtroom, the teen laughed with another young inmate, and was seen smiling and hugging her lawyers, before sitting down. But she later broke down in tears as she heard testimony from her pastor, friends, and a woman who gave her a home following the alleged murders. The suspect was arrested in July after her six-year-old sister found the bodies of her parents who were shot dead. The teen called police to report the deaths of her parents and then begged true crime influencers on TikTok to solve the case. She pleaded to a crime blogger on the social media app, who revealed she had a note from "Sarah Grace" who allegedly offered to provide "intel" on their deaths. "I think it would be a really big hit," user "Sarah Grace" wrote in the message to the crime blogger. Patrick has been charged as an adult with two counts of murder and two counts of aggravated assault. Her trial is set for January 5, 2026.