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Wednesday, October 15th, 200816 year old kid who allegedly drove drunk and killed a cabbie is to be tried as an adult. He’s to be charged with vehicular manslaughter (among other things), which caries a sentence of 4 to 10 years depending to the particular charge.
The death of the cabbie is a tragedy to be sure, but we’re trying a 16 year old as an adult. This is a kid that can’t vote or join the army because he’s too immature, but commit a crime, that shows he’s totally mature. What the hell is wrong with us?
I remember when they made the big push to be able try kids as adults. It was only going to be for the “hardest of the hard.” The ones who have been in and out of juvie so much that it didn’t matter any more. It was going to be for the kids that were committing crimes at 17 and a half. Hardcore gang bangers and the like. But now? Hell, we’re trying sentencing 14 year olds with no prior record to 3 consecutive life sentence plus 120 years.
What the fuck?
The worst part is, this isn’t going to change because “you’re soft on crime” if you try to correct this absurdity.
Fuck.