Here's the case: FOXNews.com - Adult Trial for Boy in Death of Pa. Woman, Fetus
They are trying this boy as an adult. If you go to the article, you'll see a photo of the boy.
An 11 year old is very young. At 11 most kids haven't even started puberty. How can a child that young be considered an adult? Is this kid any more unreformable than many young thugs? What he allegedly did was horrible, but he is not anywhere near adulthood.
Unless affected by some level of mental retardation, an 11 year old brain is fully aware of the conceptuality of right and wrong.
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Unless affected by some level of mental retardation, an 11 year old brain is fully aware of the conceptuality of right and wrong.
This kid should be tried as an adult.
Prison has nothing to do with reform. It has to do with punishment. If that was the case, crimes with excessively high rates of recidivism such as child molestation would be life-sentence crimes after the first conviction.
If laws like that were enforced, I would've gone out a week before my 18th birthday and robbed several banks, buried the money somewhere, and went to juvy for a few days.
Unless affected by some level of mental retardation, an 11 year old brain is fully aware of the conceptuality of right and wrong.
Manc Skipper said:You falsify this claim by making it.
I don't get this...if you do an adult crime, you deserve an adult punishment. Justice is blind to gender, race, and hopefully age as well.
I don't get this...if you do an adult crime, you deserve an adult punishment. Justice is blind to gender, race, and hopefully age as well.
I don't get this...if you do an adult crime, you deserve an adult punishment. Justice is blind to gender, race, and hopefully age as well.
Really? Which crimes are not "adult?"
A child doesn't commit crimes for adult reasons, however. That's a big difference.
Really? Which crimes are not "adult?"
But our laws specifically have age related punishments involved, so it's not. And thus we need to abide by that.
Good point. Lets wait for the little murderer to form those thoughts, and kill some more people. Then we can try him as an adult :roll:
And yet we see plenty of children, or at least minors, being tried and convicted as adults. I think a few have been put on death row, but I'm not sure about that part.
As such, our legal system can and has given adult punishments to minors, for committing crimes.
Men who commit physical violence on women can go to jail for assault and battery. So does that mean that a little boy who smacks and fights with his sister should go to jail for that crime too?
samsmart said:Men who commit physical violence on women can go to jail for assault and battery. So does that mean that a little boy who smacks and fights with his sister should go to jail for that crime too?
Just because a government can or has done something doesn't mean it's right for them to do it.
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