12 year old boy beats toddler to death with a baseball bat

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Originally Posted by jebus

It's got everything to do with 'all the other crap'. If we're going to say that a child has a proper reasoning on the value of life, then clearly they must have an understanding of the harms of substance abuse and sexual behaviour, and so anyone convicted of sexual assault on a minor (say a 49 year old man and a 13 year old girl) could ask for a retrial on the grounds that 12 year olds are now considered adults

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a young teenager can be easily munipulated into satisfying some dirty pervert, they can also be easily lead to believe lots of things...... that has nothing to do with wanting proper justice against a sick minded 12yr old who decided to beat a child to death because he was annoying him!.

ive come across some mean characters when i was growing up who have turned out to be nasty pieces of stuff in adult life...however none would have done to previous mentioned crime... on the basis of that id say this 12 yr old could be a very dangerous individual in the coming years. in the interest of public safety he shouldnt be released until he's well into his 20's.

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Originally Posted by gilberto_eire

a young teenager can be easily manipulated into satisfying some dirty pervert, they can also be easily lead to believe lots of things.

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Because their minds are immature.

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Originally Posted by gilberto_eire

that has nothing to do with wanting proper justice against a sick minded 12yr old who decided to beat a child to death because he was annoying him!.

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Gilberto, psychologists, social workers, whoever...all around the world have been charged with the responsibility of deciding where to draw the line between adults and juveniles in a legal sense, and have come to the conclusion that 12 year-old people are not adults, at least in a legal sense.

They feel that to try them as an adult would be unfair and the sentence they receive would not be "proper justice".