“...the boy was released from custody.”
“...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
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.