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For the past weeks the American public has been confronted with young children taking part in heinous crimes in America. These crimes that these young children are participating in are taking lives of other young children.
One case that has been very much publicized in the media is the young 14-year-old boy who killed a six-year-old girl. According to his mother and his lawyer, the boy was imitating wrestling and it was an accident. He did not mean for this to happen.
Well, that’s nice and all, but that is not going to bring that little girl back or ease her parent’s suffering. Why is the only controversial topic in this case whether this boy should have been tried as an adult?
The law now is that if you are 13 years old, you can be tried as an adult.
Some people would argue that these kids were playing and that it just went too far. It does not take a genius to know when another person is in pain. At the age of four, children understand what pain is and what it looks like. This little girl suffered injures on the outside of her body and the inside of her body.
Some people think just because this boy is a kid, he should not be punished. He should just get a slap on the wrist and told not to do it again. This was an adult crime. This girl was hit and body-slammed repeatedly.
Boys and girls are different, so a boy should be taught not play roughly with a girl. It is a proven fact that women happen to be weaker in strength than men are. When boys are young, they are taught not to pick on girls and not to hit girls.
Yes, it is sad to hear that this boy will spend the rest of his life in jail and that he will not stand a chance in jail. Too bad. What chance was this little girl given? Her life is cut short due to this boy who was just out of control. To have to die that way, to be beaten to death, would be a terrible death.
Now there is the case in San Diego of a boy who killed students because they picked on him and stole his skateboard. So many people in this world have had something taken from them or been teased without turning around and killing someone.
So what gives this person the right to pick up a gun and blow someone’s head off? Then after the person is dead, the person expects to be a kid again?
No, you did an immoral adult thing, and now you must pay. No one said life was easy, and if someone is bothering you to the point where you think you must kill him or her, seek therapy.
Minors should be tried as adults to stress the point that if you do a crime, you are going to be punished, regardless of your age. By saying that minors should not be tried as adults, we are allowing minors to keep killing.
22 comments
so we cant vote, smoke, or drink, but yet we could be tried as
an adult. that's some bsi am 16 years old and im not against trying kids as an adult only
because im a minor but there are studies where it says that
minors brains arent as mature as an adult.......