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The Sad Story Of 11 Year Old "Little Yummy" America's Youngest Hired Killer by TheLogicalMind(m): 12:57am On Sep 03, 2018
On September 1st 1994, in the streets of the American city of Chicago, Illinois the dead body of an 11 year old African American boy was discovered with two bullet holes in his skull.

As the story of the gruesome discovery filtered through the media, a shocked nation was forced to confront the ugly reality of gang violence which many knew about, but few had the courage to talk about.

The lifeless body was identified as Robert Sandifer, or as he was known to his family and friends: "Little Yummy." But who was "Little Yummy" and why was his life cut so tragically short?



Life was harsh and unforgiving for Robert Sandifer (aka Little Yummy) right from the very beginning. Born on March 12, 1983, Sandifer's mother, Lorina Sandifer, had over 100 arrests for prostituting, many of which were drug related. Sandifer's father, Robert Akins, was absent for all of Sandifer's life due to incarceration for unlawful gun ownership.

By the time he was 8 years old, Sandifer was already a career criminal, known for bullying and stealing money from other children and the community in the Chicago neighborhood of Roseland.

He was also an expert car thief who had a preference and liking for luxury cars, and remarkably, was able to drive them despite his small size.

By the age of 10 he had already been arrested 23 times by the police. Many of his 23 felonies and 5 misdemeanors were committed in the course of running errands for street gangs. Because of his extremely young age, the penal system had no way to keep him out of trouble and the courts were helpless to lock him away as he was consisered too young for juvenile detention and too dangerous to be placed with children his age.

He was therefore able to continue his criminal career without ever serving any sort of punishment for committing crimes for which an adult would have received a lengthy sentence.

A street gang called the Black Disciples, recognising the advantages of having a criminal on their payroll who was effectively immune from criminal prosecution hired Little Yummy as a hitman just after his 11th birthday.

On August 28, 1994, Yummy was ordered to carry out an assassination for his gang. He opened fire several times with a 9 millimeter semiautomatic pistol, striking several youths. Yummy quickly fled the scene.

Among the victims was Shavon Dean, age 14, who later died from her gunshot wounds. The crime spree made national headlines. The nation was shocked by the brutality of the crime and the fact that the alleged perpetrator was 11 years old. The Chicago Police began a manhunt for Little Yummy.

On August 31, while still in hiding, Yummy was met by brothers Cragg and Derrick Hardaway, ages 16 and 14, who were members of his gang The Black Disciples. They convinced Yummy that they would take him to a safe hiding place and ordered him into a waiting car. Instead, he was taken to an abandoned building and told to get on his knees.

While on his knees, he was shot twice in the back of the head by the Hardaway brothers. Yummy's body was discovered by the Chicago Police Department in the early morning of September 1. Both Hardaways were later convicted of Yummy's murder. Yummy's funeral was held at the Youth Center Church of God in Christ on Chicago's Northwest Side.

The tragic story of Little Yummy serves as a cautionary tale that no matter how wealthy and advanced a society is, there will always be those whose existence is doomed to be nothing more than a dismal footnote and a damning indictment of such society's inability to provide a safety net for all of its most vulnearable members.

In the end, Little Yummy was far more a victim of the system than a villain.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sandifer

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Re: The Sad Story Of 11 Year Old "Little Yummy" America's Youngest Hired Killer by adeniyi3971(m): 1:04am On Sep 03, 2018
America and gang wars / Gun violence
Re: The Sad Story Of 11 Year Old "Little Yummy" America's Youngest Hired Killer by ojay2053(m): 1:10am On Sep 03, 2018
Hmm
Re: The Sad Story Of 11 Year Old "Little Yummy" America's Youngest Hired Killer by atilla(m): 1:54am On Sep 03, 2018
D poor boy wasnt given a chance to live a normal life. Very sad story

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Re: The Sad Story Of 11 Year Old "Little Yummy" America's Youngest Hired Killer by thesicilian: 2:12am On Sep 03, 2018
Everything seems to have started because his father wasn't there to straighten him up in terms of discipline. Which is because the system locked him up for so long due to "unlawful gun possession", the same system that will release a well known murderer back into the streets due to "lack of adequate evidence", or worse still, evidence "inadmissible" in the court of law.

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Re: The Sad Story Of 11 Year Old "Little Yummy" America's Youngest Hired Killer by MANNABBQGRILLS: 2:44am On Sep 03, 2018
As it is in Nigeria, so it is in America!
Re: The Sad Story Of 11 Year Old "Little Yummy" America's Youngest Hired Killer by Mopricelezz(f): 3:08am On Sep 03, 2018
Sad!
Re: The Sad Story Of 11 Year Old "Little Yummy" America's Youngest Hired Killer by Henrodah(m): 6:23am On Sep 03, 2018
Tupac sang about him in "Shorty wanna be a thug" in his all eyes on me album.

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Re: The Sad Story Of 11 Year Old "Little Yummy" America's Youngest Hired Killer by chiommy123(f): 7:11am On Sep 03, 2018
I hope this story opens our parents eyes to always be there for their kids. Things adults are scared to do this kid did without fear. painful
Re: The Sad Story Of 11 Year Old "Little Yummy" America's Youngest Hired Killer by dbos11(m): 7:37am On Sep 03, 2018
Criminal at 8.
Eleyi gidi gan oo
Re: The Sad Story Of 11 Year Old "Little Yummy" America's Youngest Hired Killer by BanevsJoker(m): 8:04am On Sep 03, 2018
He looks like a much younger Eazy-E.

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Re: The Sad Story Of 11 Year Old "Little Yummy" America's Youngest Hired Killer by Nobody: 9:27am On Sep 03, 2018
Project kids.
Re: The Sad Story Of 11 Year Old "Little Yummy" America's Youngest Hired Killer by Nbote(m): 9:45am On Sep 03, 2018
He was always going to b consumed by d same gang violence he found solace in...

atilla:
D poor boy wasnt given a chance to live a normal life. Very sad story

Wasn't given a chance?? By whom? He got away with every crime he perpetrated becos he was way too young and already a risk to his peers... D same violence consumed him
Re: The Sad Story Of 11 Year Old "Little Yummy" America's Youngest Hired Killer by TheLogicalMind(m): 9:57am On Sep 03, 2018
atilla:
D poor boy wasnt given a chance to live a normal life. Very sad story

What is even sadder is that many young black americans see him as a role model and they're emulating him.
Re: The Sad Story Of 11 Year Old "Little Yummy" America's Youngest Hired Killer by keryj(f): 11:28am On Sep 03, 2018
After THE PULGE, I feel really sorry for America and their fake dreams angry
Re: The Sad Story Of 11 Year Old "Little Yummy" America's Youngest Hired Killer by Nobody: 11:39am On Sep 03, 2018
grin

Re: The Sad Story Of 11 Year Old "Little Yummy" America's Youngest Hired Killer by vikkeee(m): 12:25pm On Sep 03, 2018
poor dude
Re: The Sad Story Of 11 Year Old "Little Yummy" America's Youngest Hired Killer by Gmajor(m): 1:12pm On Sep 03, 2018
adeniyi3971:
America and gang wars / Gun violence
More like black Americans and...

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