I never said nothing really bad should happen to them, I said LWOPP in the instance described, being a lookout or driver when you had no idea what your “conspirators” were doing for a 13-15 year old is going to ensnare kids who aren’t the hard core you need to put down.
I work with kids this age every day, and the overwhelming majority can be very esily manipulated by someone with nepharious intent if they would choose to. You are talking about 7th-10th graders here. I am not suggesting no punishment should occur or that blanket passes should be made in every case. However you cannot ignore the case where a truly bad person convinces a kid to do something they shouldn’t and may have had no idea what was going on, and treat it as though they were an adult in the same situation every single time.
Agreed. But according to the article he knew they were there to commit a robbery.