How can we possibly remain one of the minority of states treating seventeen year old criminals as adults? Prison time for shoplifting should certainly be reserved for the eighteen and over crowd, right?
And just look at the poster child, literally, for this heinous over-reach of our criminal justice system:
Isn't she just adorable?!?
But WAIT! There's more!
What about this sweet seventeen beauty?
He is merely accused, accused mind you, not convicted, of beating a woman to a pulp. Yet he may well be saddled with a criminal record that will haunt him the rest of this life. What a tragedy!
Or how about this little darlin'?
This seventeen year old Lafayette GA high school student will be dogged the rest of his life because over zealous authorities mistook his little prank as a bomb threat.
Next thing you know our pandering "tough on crime" politicos will be sending our children straight to Gitmo.
This simply must stop. Now.