A "cunning" 14-year-old girl charged with murdering her father escaped from home confinement by removing an electronic monitoring device from her ankle and gluing it to a cat, authorities said. Police were searching for Kayla Marie LaSala, who fled an uncle's house early Saturday, according to Mercer County Prosecuting Attorney Bill Sadler. Kayla faces trial Sept. 7 as an adult on a first-degree murder charge in connection with the Feb. 23 stabbing of her father, Stephen LaSala.
The motive in the killing was unclear, Mercer County sheriff's Sgt. A. D. Beasley said Wednesday. He said she had confessed. "She's very, very sharp. She's cunning," said sheriff's Detective C. T. Lowe.
| A cunning runt.........finish the joke yourself |
Kayla apparently managed to cut the monitor from her ankle, said Steven Collins, director of the home confinement program and the Day Report Center in Princeton. "It's not something you can just snatch off or take off," he said.
| I guess "cutting off" never occured to you, huh? |
Removing the device set off an alarm, but Kayla was gone by the time police arrived. "My officer informed me he thought it (the monitoring device) was super-glued on a cat," Collins said. The cat was not hurt, he said.
| Just really, really pissed. |
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