so many protections in place for this 'child' who is probably 17, 18 or 19 so he's considered a 'teen' child. In the 60's a very large percentage of combat troops were 'teens' and hardly seen as a child. After joining the Army on my 17th birthday and sent to Vietnam 2 months after turning 18, if someone called me a child after Infantry training they would have received using a term from back then 'a knuckle sandwich'. Calling these young men children just re-enforces in their mind that no one can legally punish them.