The 12-year-old who says "violence makes me feel good."

 

The tween and her mother Melanie and father Dave have appeared on the US talk show Dr Phil where they confessed that Aneska is uncontrollable.

Her father told of how she recently set fire to a blanket in the garage, and how she has stolen credit cards and money. Her mother told of the young girl’s explosive anger and of fears that Aneska would hurt her other siblings.

Aneska’s mother, Melanie told Dr Phil that Aneska might look very cute and innocent, but “she holds our family in a constant state of crisis,”

“[She] is explosive, violent and aggressive. She lies, she steals and she doesn’t respect authority.”

“If my brothers and my sisters do something annoying, they’re in big trouble. I’ll hurt them. I’ll threaten,” Aneska told the program.

“One time, they made me really angry and I chased my siblings around with a knife.”

The family now lock their large block of knives away, terrified of what may happen if their 12-year-old daughter gets her hands on them.

They revealed that she was six Aneska killed their pet hamster in a twisted and cruel attack.

Her mother said that she was in the room when it happened but she didn’t realise what was going on.

“When she was doing that, I didn’t realise she was doing it because she was happy,” Melanie said.

“I was peaking in on her and I didn’t know she had the hamster … She was happy. I bent down to play peek-a-boo with her and I noticed Kleenex everywhere, and I went over to see what was going on, and the hamster was covered by the Kleenex.”

At the age of seven Aneska squeezed a nest of baby birds to death. Her father says she made the eyes of the bird pop out in a gruesome experiment.

The young girl told the progam that at times she heard voices, one a soldier who had died on the battlefield.

She said that the voices are no long there but it was them that spurred her into killing the hamster.

“Sometimes, I hear whispers and I can’t make out what they’re saying, so it’s scary for me,” Aneska said.

The family say they first noticed a change in Aneska’s behaviour after they say she fell off of her tricycle when she was three-years-old, landing on her face.

“She had chipped a tooth, her face was swollen and she was bleeding,” her mother explained.

“Aneska was taken to the hospital, and she had a quick examination by a doctor, and we were told to take her home. About a week later, we noticed a change in Aneska’s personality.”

“It was like somebody had flipped a switch,” her father, Dave said “Aneska was a totally different child.”

Since then, Melanie and Dave say her behaviour has gotten worse with each passing year. The have tried many different forms of medication and treatment methods and have been to countless doctors. They say that Aneska has been on more than 35 different medications and has been admitted to an adolescent treatment center in their town  nearly 20 times.

“To this day, nothing has worked,” Melanie said. “If Aneska continues down this path, Aneska will either be dead or in jail.”

The program sent Aneska for a brain scan where doctors found that the 12-year-old could be suffering Bipolar and Significant Sensory Dysregulation Disorder, she was advised to stop taking the SSRI she was prescribed and her family were hopeful of a change in the young girl’s behaviour.