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Yeah, I don't know what the fuck either.
>A 7-year-old boy from upstate New York has been arrested on rape charges.
>On 23 March, a 7-year old boy from Brasher Falls, New York was arrested, sending shockwaves through the small community near the Canadian border.
>Due to the age of the accused, there are few details available about the nature of the alleged crime or of the subsequent arrest.
>According to WNYTV 7, the boy was charged with third-degree rape.
>State troopers told the broadcaster that an incident occurred on Thanksgiving which prompted the boy's arrest. He was cited and later released. The troopers said the case will be handled in family court.
>The boy will be charged as a juvenile delinquent.
>The arrest prompted a debate over the merits of arresting children that young.
>"Instinctually, it shouldn't happen that a 7-year-old - I don't think you even could really realize what you're doing at 7-years-old. So I think it's absurd to charge a 7-year-old with rape. They'd have to prove he actually physically committed this act, which to me it almost seems to be an impossibility," said, Anthony Martone, the director of felony youth defense unit "Queens Defenders."
>Child advocates claim that regardless of crime, a child entering into the US's massive carceral state is not the correct way to handle a child.
>Judges, lawyers, and juvenile justice experts claim the arrests of children traumatize them and lock them into the long-reaching tendrils of the criminal justice system, which increases their chance at recidivism.
https://news.yahoo.com/7-old-charged-rape-small-153814768.html
>A 7-year-old boy from upstate New York has been arrested on rape charges.
>On 23 March, a 7-year old boy from Brasher Falls, New York was arrested, sending shockwaves through the small community near the Canadian border.
>Due to the age of the accused, there are few details available about the nature of the alleged crime or of the subsequent arrest.
>According to WNYTV 7, the boy was charged with third-degree rape.
>State troopers told the broadcaster that an incident occurred on Thanksgiving which prompted the boy's arrest. He was cited and later released. The troopers said the case will be handled in family court.
>The boy will be charged as a juvenile delinquent.
>The arrest prompted a debate over the merits of arresting children that young.
>"Instinctually, it shouldn't happen that a 7-year-old - I don't think you even could really realize what you're doing at 7-years-old. So I think it's absurd to charge a 7-year-old with rape. They'd have to prove he actually physically committed this act, which to me it almost seems to be an impossibility," said, Anthony Martone, the director of felony youth defense unit "Queens Defenders."
>Child advocates claim that regardless of crime, a child entering into the US's massive carceral state is not the correct way to handle a child.
>Judges, lawyers, and juvenile justice experts claim the arrests of children traumatize them and lock them into the long-reaching tendrils of the criminal justice system, which increases their chance at recidivism.
https://news.yahoo.com/7-old-charged-rape-small-153814768.html
