It said the father wanted to post bail. Lawyers don’t post bail, and whoever posts the bail is taking responsibility for the accused. If the father (and/or lawyer) was asking the court to transfer the boy to a juvenile therapeutic facility, no bail would be involved.
There’s definitely a LOT more to this story. But I completely disagree with you that the boy should be punished as a first step in learning self-control and responsibility. That’s like spanking a child for hitting a sibling, when you’ve never told the child not to do this. If he keeps doing it after being taught and corrected, that’s when punishment is appropriate and beneficial. Obviously this boy can’t be given enough freedom to possibly repeat this sort of behavior for several years at the least, but an effort at gentle correction, in a secure environment, should be the first step. For all we know, this boy has seen his father repeatedly slam the pregnant girlfriend across the room without any consequences. I just think we need to be fair about what opportunity this boy has had to develop basic civility.
From the article “Brown’s attorney, Dennis Elisco, said he planned to file motions on Monday asking a judge to move the case to juvenile court and to let the boy’s father post bail so the boy can be freed.
“I want him to be occupied and busy and back, essentially, in school,” Elisco said.”
The lawyer was quoted not the father.
So basically, we should have to tell the boy not to kill someone and then if he does it again we should punish him. An eleven year old boy KNOWS that it is wrong to kill someone. No one needs to teach him that. What he needs to be taught is that he will be punished for doing it. Basic civility is saying please and thank you, murder is evil. You seem to think that because he had a bad example that he should get a pass on this murder. Tell that to the children of the woman he murdered.
I don’t disagree with your assessments and I certainly laud your compassion. However, no sane person should ever trust this broken soul living next door. Tempering compassion with public safety, the best we should ever do is remand him to a psychiatric facility for the rest of his born days. He should never, ever, ever be in a position to even view another human being without safety protocols in a controlled environment.