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Title: Boy suspected in beating death known as troubled child
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: ShepherdsDog
Date: 2013-09-02 11:41:37
Canadian

[saturn_656]

They may not be able to charge him with this murder, but a rotten egg like this will no doubt offend again, lock him up then.

Hopefully next time he doesn't kill anyone.

[Benn]

Technically he can kill at will until he's 12, then he can serve 2 years for murder. QUestion is what is there under the law that can stop him? Nothing I know of.

[Lemmy]

Benn Benn:

Technically he can kill at will until he's 12, then he can serve 2 years for murder. QUestion is what is there under the law that can stop him? Nothing I know of.

He can't "kill at will until age 12" he just can't be held criminally responsible until age 12. He can be detained or hospitalized for public safety at any age, just not through the criminal court system.

[Benn]

Never had to deal with mental health act detentions for minors so I'm unsure what provisions there are in that respect. I'm sure there is some sort of place or program or something they can put them. But until they get there, and even once they are there, the little psycho has a get out of criminal record free card to kill as often as he wants / is able to. One can still commit crimes in detention.

Wish we would hear more about the story and how it handled but considering news shelf life the media won't follow up except maybe the local town paper.

[ShepherdsDog]

The story will eventually get buried/dropped to protect the killer

[Zipperfish]

Sunds like a lovely place this reserve. The poor kid was sent there as a foster child from a home elsewhere. It must have been a pretty crappy home if they figured this reserve--apparently a feestering hole of alcohol, drugs and violence--was considered a step up. I guess his foster mom was playing bingo and he was unsupervised. The Reserve is now considering "peacekeepers." Yeah, you know what? We might be a little bit past that now.

[ShepherdsDog]

sounds like a lot of reserves....not all reserves, but a lot of reserves.

[PJB]

Where was the foster mom during all of this? Oh yeah, inside playing Bingo. Go figure

[desertdude]

Man, that kid sounds like nothing but trouble, already had the coppers called on him multiple times.

Kinda bullshit to start blaming the reserves just 5 or 6 post deep into the thread. I do believe upbringing has a major affect and plays a major part but if the person is just a bad seed then no matter where he grows up then he/she is going to be a nasty person regardless. And this kid's already starting to look nasty.

If he did kill the poor boy, he should be tried as an adult, 11/12 is old enough to know that you shouldn't go around killing people.

[DrCaleb]

Grandma with Dimentia gets tazed because she's scared and doesn't know where she is; boy beats another to death and gets a finger wagging. What a world we live in.

[ShepherdsDog]

desertdude desertdude:

Man, that kid sounds like nothing but trouble, already had the coppers called on him multiple times.

Kinda bullshit to start blaming the reserves just 5 or 6 post deep into the thread. I do believe upbringing has a major affect and plays a major part but if the person is just a bad seed then no matter where he grows up then he/she is going to be a nasty person regardless. And this kid's already starting to look nasty.

If he did kill the poor boy, he should be tried as an adult, 11/12 is old enough to know that you shouldn't go around killing people.

Have you ever lived on, worked on or been on a reserve here in Canada? Didn't think so. Many are like little nuggets of the nastier parts of the Third World, inner city ghettos in the US, Mexico and hillbilly land all mixed together.

[desertdude]

Can't say I have been, but not every 12 year old on the reserve is going around beating little kids to death.

[martin14]

desertdude desertdude:

Can't say I have been, but not every 12 year old on the reserve is going around beating little kids to death.

Not getting married either.


Doesn't that say something ?

[Zipperfish]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Have you ever lived on, worked on or been on a reserve here in Canada? Didn't think so. Many are like little nuggets of the nastier parts of the Third World, inner city ghettos in the US, Mexico and hillbilly land all mixed together.

They are nasty. I could tell you stories. Alcoholism, drug addictiona dn violence are endemic at far too many of them, especially remote, poor reserves. I was workgin on resevers when I was younger. At one, I had to sleep in the jail. It was the only safe place for a whitey. The school had shut down because the nun/teacher had been gang-raped by her students. The place had a population of under four hundred and was in the middle of nowhere, but had a huge heroin problem.

That's what these kids grow up in. Throw int he fact that a good chunk of them suffer from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome dn events like this aren't as surprising.