Wednesday, November 19, 2008

"I'm going to go to juvie"

An eight year old boy was questioned in the shootings of his father and another man. At first he denied any involvement outright, saying that he came home from school and found them dead. Later he admitted to shooting each man at least twice, reloading sometimes. He went on to say that he only used guns when he hunted small game with his dad, but then contradicted this by saying that he sometimes used guns in the house, and felt bad because he didn't tell his dad. It is suspected that police may have obtained the confession in a poor manner. In the video that they took of the interview, they made the boy scared by telling him that if he didn't tell the truth, they could find out.


I'm going to focus primarily on what should be done with this boy. It is obvious to me that he killed these two men. The boy did lie countless times, but I don't think that the boy would lie about killing people. I think that the police were able to scare him into confessing, and he told the truth at this point. Now the question will be, what do we do with him? The obvious choice would be to put him in juvie for a while, and then move him into jail. I disagree with this choice though, I think that the boy should first be admitted into a metal institution, but if he is found to be unaffected by anything, then he should be put in jail. His crime is no different than if he was twenty, he still killed two men. The jail should maybe not put him with all the adults, but I don't think that juvie will suffice.

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