Kali J. Bookey, a 14-year-old teenager living in New Richmond, Wisconsin, has been charged as an adult with attempted first-degree intentional homicide.
She is being held in a juvenile detention center for allegedly breaking into her brother’s girlfriends home and spending hours beating her, suffocating her, cutting her and slitting her throat with shards of glass from a broken bowl, the Daily Mail reports.
The 15-year-old victim is still in hospital suffering from very serious injuries.
Kali Bookey allegedly reiterated her plan to the victim, saying that she had carefully thought out this attack for over a week and a half, riding past the house regularly on her bike to take notes on when people came and left.
Kali J. Bookey. Image: Facebook.
She allegedly described her victim as the 'first kill' but hinted that she was a 'psychopath and would probably kill again.' It is claimed she then asked the 15-year-old girl whether she would like to 'die right now' or 'bleed out'. Her victim reportedly chose to bleed out.
When Bookey allegedly confessed to police what had happened, after first saying it was the work of two men in ski masks, police claim she admitted that she had grown immense hate for the victim because of how content she made Bookey's 16-year-old brother.
While she allegedly told the victim she hoped this was her 'first kill', Bookey reportedly later told police that she had only meant to scare the girl long enough for her to leave town so that her brother would be closer to the family again.
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They should sue the Bookeys for the medical expenses, take out a restraining order against Kali J Bookey in case she's released, and the victim should be staying the hell away from the Bookey family. It's a slap in the face to ask other people for handouts as long as the victim still has anything to do with the Bookeys.
Why? It wasn't the whole family that did this! This person was obviously seriously deranged & sure there could have been a family history of callous behaviour but not necessarily & you'll probably find in most cases like these that the family of the perpetrator are just as upset and shocked as any one else - they're just as innocent in this as the person who did this so why should they suffer further?
Suing for medical expenses, or a portion of medical expenses, doesn't make them "suffer further". It's a fairly standard way of ensuring the people responsible (the parents, in this case, because they are legally responsible for their minor children) help to defray the cost of their daughter's actions.
If the victim continues to put herself in harm's way no one can stop her, but it is a slap in the face to the people who donate their own money to help her recover. The Bookeys, innocent or not, still have a responsibility to clean up the mess their daughter made.
Oh, and - normally I would agree with everything you've said. But there's a lot that seems "off" about this case, including the victim's baffling texts to her boyfriend (Kali Bookey's brother) and the brother's bizarre statements to the media. The Bookeys should pay, or contribute to, the victim's medical bills but beyond that, I don't see the victim ever being safe while she has any connection to the Bookey family.