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A girl crossing Nostrand Avenue was pinned down by a "runaway" school bus in Brooklyn yesterday afternoon. Second grader Amber Sadiq had been walking home with her 10 year old brother when an empty bus rolled down the street. The bus weighed 26,000 pounds, and witnesses tried to push the bus off Sadiq without luck. When police arrived, they asked a nearby Con Ed truck to help pull the bus off Sadiq. Sadiq's brother, Umar, who was able to dodge the bus, cried, "I was right there with her. It was terrible. Someone picked me up and carried me home." One witness said Sadiq tried to run "but the garbage can was in the way."
An 8 year old boy entered the bus after the driver left and somehow managed to released the brakes; the boy entered through the back emergency exit and then got off the bus once it started to roll. The bus driver had locked the front door to go eat across the street (the emergency exit doors do not lock). And the 8 year old boy was charged with negligent homicide this morning.
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Um.
How are you going to arrest an 8 year old.
Three lives lost: the girl who died, the boy who's prank killed her and the brother who helplessly watched his sister die. Such a sad story...
Runaway bus, indeed.
Shocker, the killer lives with his grandmother.
And, he went in through the emergency exit so don't blame the bus company for this.
Prayers go out to Amber.
School will be over soon but not until we're going to see more mischief.
Get your tasers ready, I recommend Streetwise Small Fry stun gun. It really does make that electrical arc sound.
Sad story, no doubt.
Guys, really though - would it hurt to read through your posts one more time before hitting the button so as to avoid copy like "managed to released the brakes" and "the emergency exit doors not lock???"
To say nothing of: "This cereomy will include and unveiling of the a statue and fountain at the plaza."
Why would you lock an emergency exit?
If you have children, you'll find out quickly how they'll defeat any security device or open any contraption.
am i the only one who thinks charging an 8 year old with homicide is completely absurd?
Why don't the emergency doors lock on the oustide? Emergency exit doors in buildings lock on the outside. This would seem to be a problem bus owners and operators would be able to foresee.
How can you charge an 8 year old with negligent homicide? It boggles the mind. There's no way he could have known that what he was doing could or might result in a death. It's so absurd; what good will charging a second-grader do? This is our justice system at its most ridiculous.
What? They're charging this kid? That's ludicrous.
What's next--charging infants with sexual assault for nursing? Seriously, this is beyond stupid.
I am happy that they're charging this kid with negligent homicide. People have this soft-edged, rose-colored ideal of what children are like, and while it applies to a portion of them, it's not really true. Some kids are just plain evil out of the box, in my experience, even if it's just in their thoughtless stupidity.
And we weren't in the police station with him - we don't know his views on what he's done. If he was sobbing, terrified and sorry, I doubt that they would have charged him. What if he thought that the fact that the bus killed someone was funny? Or that he didn't care that one of his peers died because of his actions? Does age really matter then? Children are smart. They can understand the difference between right and wrong, good and evil, not to mention capable of feelings of remorse, especially as old as 8. If this kid has no remorse for what he's done, the sooner he's off the streets, the better.
"How can you charge an 8 year old with negligent homicide? It boggles the mind. There's no way he could have known that what he was doing could or might result in a death."
That's we he's being charged with negligent homicide and not manslaughter or something else with a higher level of culpability. There's no way this kid will go to jail or anything, but he'll probably have state-enforced therapy or time in juvenile hall or something like that. What he did is pretty damn bad and I don't really see any problem with his facing some kind of consequence for it.
Unpopular Opinion, it would be one thing if he actually physically attacked the girl.
Even the most devious kid wouldn't be able to time the release of an emergency brake and a rolling bus to purposely take out the local bully. Its most obviously a prank that went horribly wrong. I doubt the NYPD suddenly ran a psychological test on him at the scene and decided he was Damien, Son of Satan before they arrested him.
He got in the bus through the emergency exit.
How many of use would do that? Even for fun?
The door says EMERGENCY.
Sorry, he's trouble since the day he was born.
Thank god, they got him now so he wasn't that smart.
This is what happens when you don't spank your children.
Actions have consequences, and the kid has to be made to understand that. Was he scared shitless when the cops cuffed him and took him down to the station - I'll bet he was (or at least I hope he was). I'm sure Amber was even more scared when the runaway bus was bearing down on her. And the brother standing there watching it all...
I'm not advocating an "eye for an eye" here folks, but the kid needs to know that he did something horribly wrong - that you can't just hit the "reset" button and try again. What should the cops have done - said "bad boy, now go back to school"...
What good will charging an 8-year old do? You make a case out of it - at least a couple of kids are gonna learn not to screw with certain things (like a moving vehicles for example).
I'm guessing none of you saw Amber's gut's splayed underneath the school bus?
This was a "prank".
The outside emergency door was LOCKED.
This convict compromised the lock and snuck in.
Now some of Amber's classmates call her a Teacher's Pet.
Animals, I tell you.
Rest in Peace, Sweet Amber.
Can we just agree now that there's nothing insightful about grammar-correcting posts? If you have a correction, e-mail it to the webmaster. Just pointing out errors without making any comment on the actual meat of the story simply makes the poster look like a small-minded tool (at least to me). There's just something so self-congratulatory about the whole practice. I imagine an office full of $23,000-a-year copy editors playing their own game of nerdy "Where's Waldo?" using the Gothamist website.
I have to agree with the charging of this kid. He did something so incredibly stupid that he is obviously incapable of applying any sort of common sense. What do you THINK is going to happen when you release a buses brakes? even if it didn't hit any person t would have hit something and caused damage somewhere. He needs to be taken out of the population. What happens when he's grown up and it's not buses he has access to but guns? Maybe this kids lesson will make other kids think twice before doing something stupid.
No charges for the bus driver.
The bus was Properly Locked.
Lock him up, throw away the key.
Force him to live in Brooklyn for the rest of his natural life.
"I doubt the NYPD suddenly ran a psychological test on him at the scene and decided he was Damien, Son of Satan before they arrested him."
Yes, all NYC cops already have a profile of Damien and will be on the lookout for the Son of Satan by June 6, 2006. So all you women best be hiding your Devil spawn else Herod's minons will arrest and charge him/her conspiring with Beelzebub
Anyone ever see the 1956 film The Bad Seed that's about a mother who realizes her 8-year-old daughter is a precious little pathological psycho responsible for the deaths of multiple victims?
i hope this boy doesn't grow up being known as the cool kid in the neighborhood who run over a girl with a bus - and got a way with it.
consequences and repercussions need to be taught to him AND his peers.
When I was 8, I had enough sense not to do anything as stupid as mess around with a vehicle.
Granted my parents seem to be an anomaly, Intelligent people who raise their children and teach them common sense, and basic right from wrong.
This kid need to be made an example of to frighten all the other little idiots, and wake them up to the fact that their actions have consequences. At the very least he needs counseling and therapy.
The BS coddling of children in today's society is producing people who do not know the meaning of personal responsibility. Everything is someone else's fault or there is always some sad excuse.
This country is producing too many people who lack personal responsibility and common sense.
8 is not too young to start the journey of a human being.
The families are blaming anyone and everyone but the kid.
They are blaming ACS, blaming why the bus was so easy to get in.
The kid was suspended from school.
The cops say there is only one person to blame,
it's the kid.
Again, give a child any lock, mechanical toy, anything and eventually the child will find a way to dismantle it or break it.
Do not blame the school bus.
There is a reason why children need to be taught, rewarded or corrected (explaining why) for their behaviors. Many of today's children live in a very permissive environment with no boundaries of what they can do. Sure, it's just so much easier to let the kids do what they want...it takes time and energy to talk and explain things to them. And when they're too young to understand, a little spanking on their bottoms worked for me when I tried to stop them from doing something dangerous like sticking a key into an electrical socket.
she was the daughter of a co-worker.
so very sad.
It is no one's fault except for the little boy and his irresponsible guardians.
Additionally, it is not up to the victim to determine what crime or what leniency the perpetrator should get. This is essentially a crime against society and our justice system gets to determine what will happen to him.
Does anyone remember Lionel Tate, the boy who killed a younger playmate while mimicking wrestling moves. They pushed for leniency and he got 10 years of parole. Guess what, he violated his parole when he held up a pizza delivery man and now he's going to jail.
Forgiveness is for individuals to dole out. I want the government to protect me from this kid. Think about it this way - do you want this kid to live next door to you? To play on the playground with your kids? To be around your pets or your personal property? I don't.
jus readin these comments makes me teary...i miss amber soo much..i remember the day it happened..it was so sad..i was in 7th grade, she was in 2nd..everone was there watchin..tryin to help her..it wasnt enough tho...then wen the sadiq's found out...it was like our school was gone..we were since we lost one of our angels...i wasnt that close to amber, but she wudd always hug me n wave wen i wudd c her in the bathroom, hallways, etc...one day i kno ill b up there wit u amber..one day..
r.i.p 161`s guardian angel