They are still children until they are 18 which is a legal adult, that I will say. However they can be made to be accountable for their actions no matter if they are a child or a teen.
I still say special needs kids need to be taught how to behave.
Special needs? that’s a laugh, only special need that guy needs is to get his ass kicked up around the shoulders. That is the behaviour of an out of control adult. The hand holding, simpering attitudes for those that know nothing can ever be done to them because of a label needs to stop. If they are truly that troubled, they do not belong out in society, they need to be under lock and key.