15 year olds ain’t children. It’s an artificial legal construct. Throughout history by 15 most people were making their way in the world.
I noticed that too: “children, child, girl, girls ...” This press reporter trips all over trying NOT to declare them even “present” - as if they were accidently there pulling knives and stabbing innocents.
With how many felonies NOT found, how many hundred crimes NOT known about since they were 8-9-10 years old? Forget the juvenile crimes that will be erased when they turn “adult criminals” - how many hundreds more did they commit that they were NOT arrested for as “girls”?
Be careful: I mentioned something similar a few years ago and was accused of being amenable to child molestation. Really. Because I said that I knew several 16-17 y/o girls (a close friend’s daughter and her friends) that would get very upset about being classified as children.