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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 262059" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>I think it would depend on the circumstances of the case. </p><p> </p><p>I watched a very interesting documentary on this very thing not long ago. While I had no trouble spotting a few of the boys shone should never have received such stiff sentences.......there were a few more I wasn't so certain about. </p><p> </p><p>But I'm biased. As a teen a very good friend, kind elderly neighbor was murdered by a 10 yr old because the boy was asked to stop stomping his flowerbeds. The boy brutally stabbed the elderly man repeatedly in a premeditated planned out attack. His parents asked for the stiffest punishment possible......and the boy got it. Eight years in the juvenille prison plus life in adult prison upon his 18th birthday. </p><p> </p><p>I knew both the child and the victim well. The boy used to "play" with my stepbrothers. Do I think he deserved such a stiff sentence? Knowing the facts of the case as well as I do........... Yes, he most certainly did. Some 30 yrs later, I still feel the same way. There is evil in this world......and that child (as sad as it is to say it) was as close as you can get. </p><p> </p><p>Once he was in jail, he confessed to pouring bleach down his 2 yr old sister's throat because he wanted her to die. Parents had believed up until that point it had been a freak accident, although they'd never figured out how the sister had gotten the bleach to begin with. Sister didn't die, but lost her windpipe, esophogus, stomach......And wasn't expected to live past the age of 5.</p><p> </p><p>I think we need to be extremely careful about this sort of thing. Kids are not the kids we were at the same ages, and most especially not the kids our parents were at the same ages. Kids today as a whole are far more worldly and experienced than the generations before them....and far more violent. </p><p> </p><p>And let's face it, it's easy to say "well I didn't know what I was doing /didn't mean to do it".....ten years down the road</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 262059, member: 84"] I think it would depend on the circumstances of the case. I watched a very interesting documentary on this very thing not long ago. While I had no trouble spotting a few of the boys shone should never have received such stiff sentences.......there were a few more I wasn't so certain about. But I'm biased. As a teen a very good friend, kind elderly neighbor was murdered by a 10 yr old because the boy was asked to stop stomping his flowerbeds. The boy brutally stabbed the elderly man repeatedly in a premeditated planned out attack. His parents asked for the stiffest punishment possible......and the boy got it. Eight years in the juvenille prison plus life in adult prison upon his 18th birthday. I knew both the child and the victim well. The boy used to "play" with my stepbrothers. Do I think he deserved such a stiff sentence? Knowing the facts of the case as well as I do........... Yes, he most certainly did. Some 30 yrs later, I still feel the same way. There is evil in this world......and that child (as sad as it is to say it) was as close as you can get. Once he was in jail, he confessed to pouring bleach down his 2 yr old sister's throat because he wanted her to die. Parents had believed up until that point it had been a freak accident, although they'd never figured out how the sister had gotten the bleach to begin with. Sister didn't die, but lost her windpipe, esophogus, stomach......And wasn't expected to live past the age of 5. I think we need to be extremely careful about this sort of thing. Kids are not the kids we were at the same ages, and most especially not the kids our parents were at the same ages. Kids today as a whole are far more worldly and experienced than the generations before them....and far more violent. And let's face it, it's easy to say "well I didn't know what I was doing /didn't mean to do it".....ten years down the road [/QUOTE]
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