An eleven year old can be charged as an adult? While he shouldn’t get any perks for being so young, I would hope they’d place him in a juvenile facility if it came down to that.
Can’t wait for the neighbors to claim he was such a sweet little thing.
I find it so jarring that someone can be both so charming and at the same time so murderous to the point of actually killing someone, much less a pregnant woman.
That's the problem with juvie for such violent kids. Do you want him living in your neighborhood when he's released at 18 or 21, angry, institutionalized and physically grown? Yeah, me neither.
At 11 I knew murdering pregnant women was wrong. I'm gonna say he'd beyond rehabilitation. On the same token, do we incarcerate him for the next 60 or 70 years? What can we do with kids like these?
You said — “An eleven year old can be charged as an adult? While he shouldn’t get any perks for being so young, I would hope they’d place him in a juvenile facility if it came down to that.”
There sure needs to be some consistency for the age of accountability in various things. For voting, it’s 18. For drinking (in some places), it’s 21. For contracts, it’s 18. For sex with others of your age, it’s somewhat lower than 18, but with an adult, it’s 18. For killing someone, it seems to be any age at all; they would probably go down to 8 or 9 years old.
Now, I would prefer that all ages match up to something “legal” for all these things. It just seems very *contrived* to have different ages for different things.