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10-Year-Old Charged as Adult in Death of Woman, 90
ABC News ^ | October 14, 2014 | Associated Press

Posted on 10/14/2014 5:22:31 AM PDT by Bettyprob

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1 posted on 10/14/2014 5:22:31 AM PDT by Bettyprob
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To: Bettyprob

But he was “unarmed”!
/ sarc


2 posted on 10/14/2014 5:23:37 AM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Bettyprob

Good. He’s no child.


3 posted on 10/14/2014 5:25:38 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: Darksheare

was the caregiver a Democrat or a decent person?


4 posted on 10/14/2014 5:26:21 AM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: Bettyprob
I haven't clicked the link but .... where does a ten-year-old learn to effectively punch someone in the throat several times ?

And whatever the source is ... it made a killer out of a child.

5 posted on 10/14/2014 5:26:55 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Bettyprob

He didn’t use a gun, so it’s OK.

Bet he gets off.


6 posted on 10/14/2014 5:27:02 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: Bettyprob

Bad seed.


7 posted on 10/14/2014 5:27:51 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Bettyprob

There are only two victim groups that teach their kids that anger and violence are appropriate responses for all disagreements. Which is this?


8 posted on 10/14/2014 5:27:55 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: SMARTY

BAN FISTS!!


9 posted on 10/14/2014 5:28:09 AM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: Bettyprob

I went to the comments section on the ABC news site. All sorts of concern about the boy being 10 and being charged as an adult.

So far NOT one word about the elderly woman he killed by beating her to death. The concern is a bit skewed I believe. The victim gets none and the killer gets all... because of his age.


10 posted on 10/14/2014 5:28:43 AM PDT by The Working Man
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11 posted on 10/14/2014 5:29:54 AM PDT by Bobalu (Hashem Yerachem (May God Have Mercy)
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To: rrrod

Dunno.
I get the feeling the kid is an Obama son.


12 posted on 10/14/2014 5:31:31 AM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Bettyprob

OK, I’m probably going to take some heat on this one, but what is the point in having two classes of crime, adult and juvenile, if we are just going to arbitrarily throw juvenile out when a judge decides a crime is “really bad”? If a 10 year old isn’t a juvenile for all things, then what age is? 9? 8?

Why not just have one charge, in this case murder, that covers both and go to trial? Then, after conviction, let the factor of the perps age be considered (or not considered) by the judge at sentencing. Better than going through this Kabuki dance of he’s a juvenile, but because what he did was really bad, were going to pretend he’s not a juvenile in this case


13 posted on 10/14/2014 5:33:39 AM PDT by SoCalTransplant (Either the parasites kill the host, or the host removes the parasites. By amputation if needed.)
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To: Bettyprob

Not to diminish the severity of this heinous crime, but I don’t get the entire concept of charging a juvenile as an adult. Crimes committed by under-aged youths have been subject to lesser punishment, based on the fact that their reasoning skills have not yet been fully developed. The actual crime they commit, whether it be relatively innocuous, such as shoplifting, or incredibly serious, as murder most certainly is, should still fall under the framework of a crime committed by a juvenile. Or else, just do away with the whole notion, and charge a third-grader who steals a cookie from the cafeteria with felony burglary.


14 posted on 10/14/2014 5:35:17 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Let those Ebola-carrying Liberians into the USA. What could go wrong?)
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To: SoCalTransplant

I was writing my response as you were posting yours. Great Minds Think Alike.


15 posted on 10/14/2014 5:36:31 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Let those Ebola-carrying Liberians into the USA. What could go wrong?)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

LOL, great minds think alike.


16 posted on 10/14/2014 5:36:55 AM PDT by SoCalTransplant (Either the parasites kill the host, or the host removes the parasites. By amputation if needed.)
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To: Bettyprob

Old people die every day and it’s never Bill Klinton.


17 posted on 10/14/2014 5:36:57 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

LOL and I was writing great minds think alike as you were!


18 posted on 10/14/2014 5:37:32 AM PDT by SoCalTransplant (Either the parasites kill the host, or the host removes the parasites. By amputation if needed.)
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To: Bettyprob

Fry the little bastard.


19 posted on 10/14/2014 5:38:05 AM PDT by petercooper ("I was for letting people keep their health insurance, before I wasn't". --- Barack Obama)
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To: Darksheare

Grandfather’s name is Anthony Verbitsky, as reported in another source.


20 posted on 10/14/2014 5:38:18 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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