A young reporter who wrote about a suspected  homicide in her small  Pennsylvania town is responding critics and defending herself after backlash. Some locals said she should be playing with dolls instead of covering  such violent crimes.

Hilde Kate Lysiak, a  9-year-old reporter got a tip on Saturday about  something untoward happening in Selinsgrove, which is  150 miles northwest of Philadelphia.  She reached the scene and get the details and wrote a crime story. She posted the story with a video clip on her website, OrangeStreetNews.com.

Soon after posting the story, her YouTube channel and Facebook page were clogged with   negative comments. The critics comments were  urging her to "play with dolls" and have a tea party. Critics also questioning her parents' judgment in letting her do such work.

"It kind of gets me angry because just because I'm 9 doesn't mean I can't do a great story, It doesn't mean I can't be a reporter,"  she said Tuesday.

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She runs her Orange Street News since 2014. She takes help from her father,

Matthew Lysiak, who was a former reporter for the New York Daily News. Her 12-year-old sister, Isabel Rose Lysiak, handles videos and photos for her site.

Matthew Lysiak said that, "She was embraced when she was doing cuter stories, but about six months into writing the paper she got more confident and started stepping outside the box."

"She found journalism really interesting, and my older daughter, too," he said. "They would ask lots of questions.

"She's normally unfazed by comments and usually doesn't read them, he said, but the tea party comment "really lit a fuse under her."

Some of the comments aloud, including, "I am disgusted that this cute little girl thinks she is a real journalist. What happened to tea parties?" and "Nine-year-old girls should be playing with dolls, not trying to be reporters."

She said that, "I know this makes some of you uncomfortable, and I know some of you just want me to sit down and be quiet because I'm 9. But if you want me to stop covering news, then you get off your computer and do something about the news. There, is that cute enough for you?"

Nandini