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Originally Posted by pylon
There are lot of comments in this thread about cutting the kid a break... he was only a kid, he had bad influences, bad parenting.... etc.
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Haven't seen a single post like that. He didn't get a break. He was punished. It is now four years later. He hasn't reoffended.
He's not getting a break now, either. The media is lambasting him for things he did as a child. Things he was already punished for doing. People here are criticizing him for a lack of remorse he displayed in front of a magistrate -- when he was 14.
This is just ridiculous. Another poster rightly pointed out that if this happened in Canada, records of this juvenile offense would be private. They're private in the United States, too. It's just that a reporter dug into his past and found someone with a tale to tell. The law, as it stands, protects juvenile offenders because that's the moral thing to do. Children aren't adults. But now that the media has their hands on the story it's open season?