12 year old to be charged as adult in double homicide

[AGDee]

I keep reading these police accounts of what supposedly happened here and don't understand at all how they have so many details unless there was a witness. How can you say something like "He hid the gun under a blanket so the 7 year old wouldn't see it". So either, the police are making HUGE assumptions or this kid talked some or the 7 year old saw the whole thing?

In any case, there is a reason that 11 year olds are not considered adults. I said this with Nathanial Abraham (who was 11 when tried as an adult in Michigan) and I maintain the same opinion today. If they are adults, treat them like adults. If they are children, treat them like children. If they aren't old enough to vote or drive, don't be trying them as adults. How can we constantly be moving the bar of "adulthood" based on what's convenient at the time?

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by AGDee

I keep reading these police accounts of what supposedly happened here and don't understand at all how they have so many details unless there was a witness. How can you say something like "He hid the gun under a blanket so the 7 year old wouldn't see it". So either, the police are making HUGE assumptions or this kid talked some or the 7 year old saw the whole thing?

In any case, there is a reason that 11 year olds are not considered adults. I said this with Nathanial Abraham (who was 11 when tried as an adult in Michigan) and I maintain the same opinion today. If they are adults, treat them like adults. If they are children, treat them like children. If they aren't old enough to vote or drive, don't be trying them as adults. How can we constantly be moving the bar of "adulthood" based on what's convenient at the time?

From what I've read, the seven year old was questioned by the police about what happened, and she was the one who said that her soon-to-be stepbrother had a blanket wrapped around something and told her that her mother wasn't making breakfast. He also didn't want the fiancee & her daughter moving in, let alone having a baby around. Throw in the fingerprint evidence, and it's going to take one fantastic attorney to use anything but his age to get this kid off.

As for remorse, guilty or not, psychiatric reports from both sides say that he has no remorse that the fiancee & the baby are dead.

I stand by my original statement that we need to have a halfway prison of sorts, for the hardcore juvenile offender. A kid who kills shouldn't be with truants, nor should a kid who kills be with adult offenders.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by honeychile

As for remorse, guilty or not, psychiatric reports from both sides say that he has no remorse that the fiancee & the baby are dead.

The problem is, there are a whole lot of people who could die and I would have no sadness about their death. That doesn't mean that I would kill them myself.