yes....and no.
But then I'm just young enough to remember what it was like to be 14.
The cutoff, whether we like it or not, is also puberty, though that is not the exclusive boundary.
When I was 11, the landlord's brother said I was 11 going on 40. My experiences in life had shaped me at that point to be as mature as many people much older. That doesn't mean I think law should be based on the 'exception,' only that the human condition is not so easily understood.
In any case, it really doesn't matter what the cutoff point is. If she had ACTIVELY participated in the murder, would you be saying she could not 'willingly' have given consent to murder?
Come now. We only apply these standards of age when it suits us.
I believe Kids now a days are corrupted by TV, Internet, Irresponsible Adults an do not have a darn clue of the ramifications of there actions.
She was clueless IMHO that he would kill her parents.
I raised my son by myself for awhile before I had married again, he never gave me one ounce of grief he did not have a computer, he was totally into sports and he knew without a doubt if he gave me any trouble, and if the basebsll bat did not work he would be out on his ear in a New York minute.