Sunday, June 15, 2008
What's with this new tendency to prosecute all young miscreants as adults? Even 12-year-olds? Either they are adults with adult judgment (granted, some adults don't have the judgment of a 12-year-old), or they're not. Developmentally delayed adults aren't held to an adult standard, so why should a 12-year-old? And if you are going to hold them to an adult standard of guilt and punishment, then shouldn't they also be given the rights of an adult?
I don't get it.
I suspect it has more to do with the prosecutor's political ambition than any public safety issue, and that disgusts me.
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