Posted on 02/12/2023 11:59:01 AM PST by grundle
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis woman described one of the scariest moments of her life after she says she was carjacked at gunpoint by a 10-year-old boy and others.
The victim says she was carjacked by four kids who stole her 2012 Infiniti on Pearce Street in North Memphis on the morning of Dec. 10.
“He put the gun between my eyes and told me, ‘look me in my eyes’, with the gun, and told me to get out the car,” she said. “It was scary, but I got sense, baby. I slid out that car like Jello. I told him to be careful,” the woman said.
Weeks later, her vehicle was recovered, and the suspects were arrested. The youngest suspect was 10, she said; a police report described the suspects as juveniles.
But the victim said her joy was short-lived after learning the boy was released from custody.
“You mean to tell me that children can actually go, and carjack people and you release them immediately?” the woman said.
WREG reached out to the Shelby County Juvenile Court judge and a spokesperson told us how long suspects stay behind bars is determined on a case-by-case basis It primarily depends on the statute surrounding the offense.
Meanwhile, as the number of victims impacted by crime increases, the calls for change will continue.
“...the boy was released from custody.”
Of course he was released from custody. He’s a 10-year-old juvenile. Chances are that if he had shot her between the eyes, he’d be released. That’s how juvenile laws work. Each state’s laws are different in this regard but there is an age, below which, a kid is untouchable by the law.
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“But just as Teddy was stooping, something flinched a little in the dust, and a tiny voice said: “Be careful. I am death!” It was Karait, the dusty brown snakeling that lies for choice on the dusty earth; and his bite is as dangerous as the cobra’s. But he is so small that nobody thinks of him, and so he does the more harm to people.”
“Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,” Rudyard Kipling
The Junior SCORPION Unit of the Memphis Police Department are on the case.
“Nuke Memphis from outer space and be done with this problem.”
I remember Memphis back in the 60s. They were rioting back then.
I remember when they used to put problem children on fenced and guarded farms where they learned to work and be nice, and got an education.
In the good ol’ days it was just the Teenz that were the trouble makers. Our headlines will now be “Toddlers Rob Quickee Mart”. Toddlers, the new Teens
He’ll be in prison for life or dead by the time he’s 25.
We had a place in Nashville called Jordonia. Same thing.
Rules *PING*
Children can actually go, and carjack people and you release them immediately?.
It primarily depends on the statute surrounding the offense.
Let me get the phone yes Mr. Soros
Someone is skirting the law
You can make somebody obey beat them or pay the.
Probably need to change the law so that, until the child reaches the age of accountability (however the state defines it), the parents/guardians are responsible to pay the fine and do the time.
Might create more enthusiasm for them to supervise and control what their kids were doing.
All manual transmissions will help this.
LoL! Yes, certainly.
It took a very short period of time before they realized they are untouchable as far as the law is concerned.Among malicious agents in their lives, their schools have taught them that there's no consequence to bad behavior.
Calls of self defense would fall on deaf ears.
I'm sure his mama told him, "You just wait until your father gets home!"
Just about 51% of the population is all.
The parents of these kids need to be charged as accessories to their children’s felonies, or a least with gross child neglect.
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