Single Digits September 2, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in England, Britain and the UK, Minority Crime.trackback
Of some 2,840 crimes committed by children under 10 years old in England and Wales in 2006, 66 of them were sex offenses. When I was 9, I thought “rape” had something to do with stabbing or slashing with knives.
The clincher paragraphs:
Lawrence Lee, who was solicitor for Jon Venables, one of two 10-year-olds who murdered two-year-old James Bulger in 1993, said lowering the age of criminal responsibility would send an important message to child offenders.
He added: “As a defence lawyer I would say no, it wouldn’t be a good thing.
“But if I wear my citizen’s hat, I would say if you go along to any estate [public housing complex -- ed.] and see the age of kids marauding around like a pack of wolves, you’d see that reducing the age of criminal responsibility to eight or nine would be vital.”
“Estate” pretty gives the racial angle away. Also, note that Mr. Lee has different opinions based on his duties as a trial lawyer (solicitor) and a human being. In other words, let the law protect him from single-digit-aged criminals, as long as he doesn’t have to defend them as part of his job.
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