Federal appeals court rules cops who handcuffed 10-year-old girl for drawing offensive picture must face excessive force lawsuit
Federal appeals court rules cops who handcuffed 10-year-old girl for drawing offensive picture must face excessive force lawsuit
A federal appeals court ruled that three Honolulu cops are not immune from a lawsuit filed by a 10-year-old girl who was handcuffed and arrested at school for allegedly drawing an offensive picture.
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Kids can be directly punished if they break a law in the USA?
In Romania(if i remember correctly), you need to be at least 14 to be punished(if it is proven that the person knew what they were doing was illegal). I assumed it was the same in other countries
Land of the free, home of the brave.
Also, she didn't break any laws.
She wondered aloud what jail would be like. That triggered the arrest. The curious musings of a child, during an interrogation in the absence of her parents or a forensic child psychologist.
There are some deeply red marking on this map, over in the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_criminal_responsibility#/media/File:Criminal_age.svg
Lol, 0 years olds getting jail time , wtf
We all must do our part to ensure that the private prisons are filled to the levels in the contracts. /s
I feel like that map may be a little misleading. Just because a state doesn't have a statutory age limit on treating a child as an adult doesn't mean that is common practice. In most states, the default is that any crime committed by a suspect under the age of 18 is handled by the juvenile court system, where penalties are far less severe, unless some special nature of the crime prompts a court to try the accused as an adult (eg murder or violent rape). A few states set the juvenile cutoff a little earlier.
So it's more like "we reserve the option to prosecute a child as an adult, but we almost never do". http://www.jjgps.org/jurisdictional-boundaries
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2016/01/23/the-youngest-kid-ever-arrested-in-florida-was-a-4-year-old/
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/30/us/boy-12-to-be-nation-s-youngest-prison-inmate.html
Hmmm more Florida
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/02/1093313589/states-juvenile-minimum-age-arrested-advocates-change
Just because it doesn't happen often doesn't mean it would never happen. Ideally you would want reasonable limits in place to prevent any possible problems in the future, like a corrupt judge and prosecutor, etc.
