KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – A 5-year-old girl could face murder charges in the recent drowning of a toddler in a bathtub, police said on Thursday.
Murder charges for a 5-year-old girl for the drowning of a toddler in a bathtub?
I have to see the further information on this one.
How do you make that stick?
Doesn't this seem as though we need to find a scapegoat--and punishment--for everyone on everything?
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We've been in a very punitive time period in this country... a nation that has more people in prison than even China!
I don't think they actually have charges against children not tried as adults. It's been a long time but I think they can only call them 'delinquent' and the juvie court system is to deal with them in the best interest of the child. It's not supposed to be punitive.
But juvie justice is so clouded in secrecy, most people don't understand how it works. It used to be when I followed it, that you aren't 'charged' with an adult crime in juvie court. Only if you're remanded over to adult court.
But they can still hold you til you're 18 years old and for serious crimes, they do exactly that, but release them upon adulthood.
It always has seemed someone inconsistent to me however, that the law can consider a minor as someone who must be a victim on matters of abuse and neglect, but if THEY do something, they're called criminals. Prosecutors kinda define them as convenient for each case.
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