Should 10 & 11 year olds be charged?

[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

Do you suppose that you go from peaceful well-adjusted kid to stomping kids to the point of hospitalization overnight? If effective parental response was coming, I think they would have already gotten it.

Firstly, I don't think any kid doing such things as these have never been well-adjusted or have never known peace. And it is a wide fluctuation of bipolar psychosis for adjustment to lunacy--in my opinion.

A 10 year old do not have discernment yet. Discernment happens with a combination of age, biology (genetics), education and life-experience. Obviously, a 10 year old does not have the life-experience, education or age to really know the consequences of his or her actions.

Is there a cutoff point? Probably not until 18-20 years old. I don't know? However, it is still formative years for until ~25-28 years old. That is why it is tough when we have kids having babies at 10/11 years old or kids committing crimes with lethal weapons. How do we as a society monitor that?

Originally Posted by epchick

See this is why I said they should go to juvie (or something similar). I think if they charge the girls as delinquents, i think the consequence is harsh (keeping them in juvie til they are 21), but give them a week, a month in juvie and I think it will straighten these girls out.

Even if these girls hadn't been in trouble (like this) before, doesn't mean they couldn't have been terrorizing other kids. That age is VERY prone to bullying.

But its the parents responses that get me---its like their child is some angel that can do no wrong. There has to be some consequence. If you leave it up to the parents or the school, then nothing will be done.

I really believe that if it took pretty much nothing for these girls to attack, then they could easily attack again!

Formal penal institutions are not stopping our crimes. And it sounds like the military does not want these kind of people either.

The issue is economic in nature. There is more upfront costs to solve this issue civilly, than to do the quick fix in throwing in a penal code institution. The penal code institution costs more in the long run and does not solve your problem that the civil action upfront costs and longterm avenue.

Longterm means going to group everyday of the week except Sunday, having check in with a licensed mental health worker and probation officers, etc. Nutritionists, physical evaluations with MRI for brain deformities and possible psychotropic drug treatments.

I do think there is possibly a loss in B-complex vitamins during pregnancy and post-natal care. I could be wrong.