Posted by Amarjeet Sada, born in 1998 in Bihar, India, is considered one of the youngest serial killers in history. In 2007, aged 8, he was arrested for the murder of Kushboo, a 6-month-old baby, and his family admitted that the year before he had already killed his baby sister and a little cousin. Being a child, he could not be tried and was placed in an institution.
Amarjeet Sada is considered the youngest serial killer in the world. He started killing at the age of 8, and his victims were babies just a few months old.
Amarjeet Sada
Amarjeet was born in 1998 in Musahari, in the Indian state of Bihar, into a poor family. Little is known about his life, but the boy became known after his arrest in 2007.
On the evening of 2 January 2007 the mother of little Kushboo, just 6 months old, realised her baby was missing. She had left her at the village school while she did the housework. After some searching, suspicion immediately fell on little Amarjeet Sada, an 8-year-old boy.
Why was the first suspect a child? The year before, Amarjeet had already killed his baby sister and a little cousin, both a few months old. The family knew, but had kept it quiet because they considered it a private matter.
Some neighbours knew as well, however, and after Kushboo disappeared they decided to confront the boy. Amarjeet, proudly, led them to the place where little Kushboo’s body was: a field not far from the village, where the baby had been put in a shallow hole and covered with grass.
After the murder of Kushboo, who was not related to Amarjeet, the villagers decided to call the police.
The arrest
The boy was questioned, and police said in a later interview that during the interrogation he smiled a lot and asked for biscuits. Then, apparently amused, he admitted killing little Kushboo by hitting her with a brick. Amarjeet’s parents then also confirmed the murders of his little sister and cousin.
His neighbours said they were always very careful around the boy, because they knew about his murderous instincts.
Amarjeet was placed in an institution, and psychiatric assessments found that he had a conduct disorder, could not tell right from wrong and took pleasure in inflicting pain.
Under Indian law a child cannot be sentenced to death or sent to prison. He was to be kept in an institution that would take care of him until he turned eighteen.
Under Indian juvenile law, he should have been released when he turned 18, in 2016. Since then nothing certain has been known about him.
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