Should Evil Teens Be Tried as Adults?

[clb09]

Take this satanic girl for example:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_...-05_evil_teen_who_tossed_cat_in_the_oven.html

A Bronx teenager roasted her ex-roommate's kitten to death in a stove - then brushed off the incident as a joke when she was busted, authorities said Thursday.

"I hate cats," Cheyenne Cherry, 17, allegedly told investigators when asked about the heartless crime.

I think a good adult prison may do her some good!

 

[zach]

Therapy?

 

[Freedom 4 all]

What the fuck is wrong with people?

 

[slothman]

Assuming she can't vote then my usual "Taxation, or cat killing, without representation applies and the answer is no.
Why shoule they be smart/wise enough to know right from wrong but not to vote for people who do know.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

I think the SPCA would understand this case better than the government courts.

Take this satanic girl for example:

[url]http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/06/05/2009-06-05_evil_teen_who_tossed_cat_in_the_oven.html[/URL]

I think a good adult prison may do her some good!

 

[Kludge]

Uh, don't people routinely boil lobsters alive?

 

[FSP-Rebel]

The friend should slap her with a civil suit and make her pay up, then ostracize her.

 

[Brassmouth]

Uh, don't people routinely boil lobsters alive?

I was wondering when someone would inject some common sense into this thread.

 

[Krugerrand]

We have a messed up system for trying children. When kids do something terrible ... people cry they should be tried as an adult. How does committing a terrible crime make you an adult?

That said, we coddle our youth and do not demand personal responsibility from them. College students get drunk and do something stupid and people want to cut them slack not wanting to "ruin their lives." Sorry, tolerating irresponsible behavior only invites it to continue.

My theory ... 18 and you get everything that comes with being an adult. Alcohol, cigarettes, voting, marriage, judicial penalties. Put them all at the same age.

I would also add a few correlaries to my theory. 1 - "child" based legal systems need to distinguish between young children and older children. There's a big difference between a 7 year old shooting her brother and a 17 year old shooting her brother. We can tier that system somehow. 2 - I would also be willing to go along with adult recognition on completion of high school as young as 16.

I don't buy into the "brains don't develop blah blah blah theory." I think your brain responds to how its used. The brain isn't developing for responsible behavior because it isn't expected of it.

 

[BenIsForRon]

She needs therapy, not prison.

 

[clb09]

Uh, don't people routinely boil lobsters alive?

I guess people don't mind so much if the result of the animal death is sustenance for the human.

I don't think that "girl" ate the cat.

 

[Krugerrand]

I guess people don't mind so much if the result of the animal death is sustenance for the human.

I don't think that "girl" ate the cat.

I'm guessing lobsters lack the pain feeling nervous system that a cat has.

 

[Bman]

I think the SPCA would understand this case better than the government courts.

Are you kidding? Then they may have to deal with someone like my wife who would have them tied up in a dungeon and tortured.

 

[dannno]

College students get drunk and do something stupid and people want to cut them slack not wanting to "ruin their lives." Sorry, tolerating irresponsible behavior only invites it to continue.

Well the only time I ever hear this argument is when they are arrested for smoking herb, protesting, or being belligerent but not harming anybody. Nobody wants to ruin a potentially successful person's life over a crime which does not have a victim. Most people are libertarian at heart, but they hypocritically think that laws will discourage bad behavior from bad individuals. It is when a "good" individual, such as someone furthering their education comes into contact with these policies that society becomes hypocritical.

If a college student harms someone, I don't usually hear much of an outcry. As an example, some insane individual at my University decided to drive his jeep down the 25mph street at 60+mph and purposely mowed down a bunch of pedestrians walking in the street (pedestrians routinely walked in the street in this town). There was no outcry about ruining his life in jail.

 

[Bman]

The friend should slap her with a civil suit and make her pay up

Ummm unless it was a rare breed worth tons of money you may win $10.

then ostracize her.

Certainly agree here.

 

[paulim]

Therapy?

No, you shouldn't force someone else to pay for this piece of shit. The only solution for a free market can be a labor camp.

 

[Dr.3D]

My son had a pet rat and while he was away, some of his so called friends took it out and covered it with lighter fluid and lit it on fire.

He loved that rat and it was very tame and would do all kinds of tricks.

What kind of treatment should those who burned that rat alive get?

 

[ChaosControl]

She needs to be executed, I gladly volunteer to kill that piece of crap waste of human skin.

Yes, I hate animal abusers. I wish death to all of them.

 

[torchbearer]

If they are considered adults by law, then they should also be allowed to buy liquor, cigs, porn, guns, and also bind contracts.
If we are to apply the law equally and blindly- then age of responsibility should be held uniformly.

 

[paulim]

She needs to be executed, I gladly volunteer to kill that piece of crap waste of human skin.

Yes, I hate animal abusers. I wish death to all of them.

Thats OK. No need to apologize. I think someone who can do this to an animal, can also treat a human being this way. Theres nothing sacred for such a thug.