I mean starting at age 7 or 8 (heavy topic spoiler coming, warning you here) I ended up severely depressed to due abuse and medicated for it by 9. So yeah unfortunately I can easily see with the exchange/ease of information now how someone in a really crappy situation might do that at a young age. Especially because young children lack the ability to really reason things out like even teens do. Unfortunately even children can end up in situations they think there's no way out of and it's never going to get better.