8-Year-Old’s Death Leads to Youth Detention for 10- and 11-Year-Olds

8-Year-Old's Death Leads to Youth Detention for 10- and 11-Year-Olds
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An 8-year-old youngster perished at a construction site in a so-called “borrow pit” earlier this year. An 11-year-old boy in Georgia was recently convicted for his involvement in the drowning.

Eight-year-old Noah Bush vanished from his family’s Jesup, Georgia, home on May 15. Jesup is a small town located about 70 miles southwest of Savannah.

He had gone out with two other boys that day. They were his killer and his killer’s accomplice, mistook for buddies.

As a result of their involvement in the Black boy’s death and the original cover-up, each of those white males will now serve two years in juvenile imprisonment.

Noah was discovered, shoeless, in the borrow pit on May 16—a hole in the ground used to supply filler for building projects. Additionally, there was a “no trespassing” sign close to his body. Authorities in Wayne County initially attributed the death to a sad accident.

But his family pointed out that the water was deep. Moreover, Noah was afraid of deep water.

A GoFundMe page set up for his family recalls that, “Noah was an intelligent, kind, and loving child. His light was radiant, and his smile was infectious. He loved playing football, basketball, gaming, and giving out infinite hugs. He will be missed so much, and this loss will leave a hole in so many hearts.”

It took many weeks, precisely fifty-five days, for the calculus to shift. It was concluded that Noah died by homicide.

The Wayne County Sheriff’s Office stated in a statement given to Savannah-based ABC affiliate WJCL in June that “this finding was based on the fact that one of the two juveniles whom were with Noah pushed him into the deep portion of the borrow pit they were wading in.”

An 11-year-old was quickly charged with one count of criminal trespass, involuntary manslaughter, concealing another person’s death, and simple violence. His 10-year-old accomplice was accused on one count of criminal trespass and concealing the death of another. Neither of the children may be named under Georgia law.

For Noah’s family, it was a small solace, a tiny thrill, and a bittersweet acknowledgement since the contradictory tales they had been given just did not add up, and they knew their son well enough to know he would not have gone swimming and unintentionally drowned in that way.

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“The whole entire tragedy has been tough on my family. I just want to say thank you so much to the community. If it weren’t for you standing by my side helping me to continue on; to push for justice. We wouldn’t have gotten as far as we have,” Demetrice Bush, Noah’s mother, stated. “There will be no peace until justice is served.”

Later, the mother of the 11-year-old was taken into custody on three counts, one of which included fabricating false claims.

According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the 10-year-old received a two-year sentence in July, and the 11-year-old received a two-year sentence on Thursday.

“The story they were told was that their son had accidentally drowned,” Johnson stated. “They knew that was not true then, and today the same was confirmed in court as the 11-year-old juvenile confessed to this horrific homicide.”

The family’s attorneys feel that the homicide was motivated by race. They also alleged that the 11-year-old was included in the search party even though she was aware that Noah had been dead for a long time.

Given that the two guilty youngsters received the harshest punishment possible in the Peach State because of their age, Noah’s mother does not think that justice was served.

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