14-Year-Old Charged As Adult In Alleged Rape Of 8-Year-Old Cousin

I don't really agree with charging children as adults. They are NOT adults. While I don't think all criminals can be rehabilitated (especially adult ones), I think a lot of kids can be successfully rehabilitated.

 

I agree, but the prison system and their lackey's find it necessary to fill their prison manufacturing firms with warm bodies to turn a profit off slave labor..

 

Just because she had a moment of clarity, does not mean she was a terrible parent up until that point. And once again, this sh## can only happen when a child has been damaged.

 

Caused by bad parenting. Yes.

 

It's the Rabbi's fault.

 

I think you're right. It's the forced sex that is way out of line.

All the young kids I grew up with were always curious about sex. They knew nothing, but the curiousity was always there.

His defense could be that he thought he was living in Kentucky. (Okay, it's a cheap joke).

 

But if that same 14 year old raped an adult woman, how would they charge him? Adult or minor? 14 is a tough age for that decision. I still see confusion on issues with my 15 year old. He knows right from wrong, but he still needs guidance and help seeing the other side of issues.

 

Today's rap isn't Run DMC or Will Smith. Can't you at least admit that?

http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2013/10/9-rappers-involved-sexual-assault-cases/

 

Time to grab my soap box. Sexuality as a whole in america is dysfunctional. Were force fed sexuality ALL DAY and yet the stigma associated with the subject is almost always negative. The culture here is disgusting- celebrities famous SOLELY OVER A SEXTAPE and politicians in the highest office doing questionable things with cigars and interns. The role models are over sexualized from movie stars to bratz dolls, yet nobody can talk about it like an adult. Is it any wonder that this **** happens??? Sad. He should not be tried as an adult. He should be given an opportunity to get treatment that a 14 year old needs, and if in any way he fails to show growth by the time hes an adult, then we can talk about other options.

 

PREACH

 

Let me tell you about my little brother. Up until he went to college, he was my best friend. He played football. He could cook great food. He could tell you the plot of every movie in existence. We used to race bikes, throw rocks at beehives, all the usual ****. Our parents are successfull and provided their children with a WONDERFUL childhood. Never any abuse, and all the support a child could need. We lived in a good neighborhood, ate well, and had good friends. We did well in school. Then Dillon went to college. Everything changed. He came back with failing grades in every class. He started talking to things only he could see. He told us he was jesus christ. He said my mother was a demon, which made her cry. Are you uncomfortable? Good. This is not a happy story. I watched my best friend dissapear before my very eyes. In his place is someone with schizophrenia. Dillon is still dillon, but he is also someone who broke my fathers eye socket, dislocated my jaw, and pulled a knife on me. Today i spent time with him. I walked with him- silent, because the voices in his head confuse him so much he rarely speaks to you. I watched him pick up cigarette butts and smoke them. It broke my heart, just like it does every week. Mental illness is genetic. My grandfather has it. My mother told me once through her tears she thought she could love us enough that we would be spared. Thats not how it works. I am bipolar. I have a similar story, albeit less dramatic. So before you spout an uninformed, un scientific damning opinion, remember one thing- My brother, dillon. I garuntee you will.

 

I agree. Why have laws for juvenile offenders when you are going to try them as an adult?

 

Seriously? WTF? Being sexual =/= raping an 8-year old.

 

Looks like you are still struggling with whole "consent" part of "age of consent." Even if an 8-year old could consent, setting aside that horrific suggestion for a moment, HE THREATENED HER ****ING LIFE. Seriously, man, quit trying to justify rape. What part of this isn't sinking in. Do you even acknowledge that rape exists? If not, not surprising at this point. If so, how the **** doesn't this constitute rape?

 

You can't make this crap up.

 

I still don't find this as an excuse for what he did. He must have known he was doing something bad at his age. He should be at an age where he understands right from wrong regardless of what he sees on TV or hears on the radio or whatever. A good point though. We are pretty messed up sexually, but that is still not a good reason for raping what is essentially a baby girl.

 

Yea and I don't have to because its literally playing out in front of our eyes.

Just because you close yours doesn't mean its somehow not happening, that's not the way things work fella.

 

Sad story, but I'll never agree. Years and years observing mental illness and family dynamics have convinced me that in the absence of brain injury, mental illness is entirely environmental.

 

so the science PROVING its genetic means nothing to you? And years of experience? Explain. You do realize how stubborn and idiotic you sound, right?

 

Science has merely noted changes. It has yet to qualify the cause of those changes. However we do know that stress alters neurochemistry, so it's a fair extrapolation. Also, there are many cultures which agree with me. It's really a western thing to blame it on genetics.

I understand why this is deeply unpalatable stuff. When we (as a society) have spent decades telling ourselves that behavioral conditions (in our kids) are not our fault, we're hardly likely to regard that viewpoint well.

 

Maybe this has been happening forever and the internet is just making you more aware of it than you otherwise would have been...

 

you mean the western world, with the best medical research in history- says one of the sources is genetic, but you disagree- why exactly? wheres your science proving its all environmental? Still waiting for you to provide the story behind your "years of family dynamics and observation " comment, where you made yourself sound like an expert. for those interested, heres some REAL science, not just this guys opinion based on hot air. http://www.webmd.com/mental-health-causes-mental-illness#1

 

There must have been a few too many young black male crime stories posted on PF for some people and a white villain needed to be produced and displayed to remind folks that there are bad white people too. Going back a few years to find an example isn't really an issue.

 

All you do is throw **** up against the wall and hope it sticks.

Just because you keep repeating a lie doesn't make it the truth.

 

Kind of kills your theory that whites never commit crimes.

The only time you care about crime is if someone black does it.