"Three young teens are in hot water..."

With our youth judicial system, it's more like a nice warm bubble bath. And they were known to police. How profound.

right on the mark with that post pylot project

Forget the protection, let the community know who these little b@$t@rds are. If they are theives, treat them like theives. Don't cottle them hoping they will turn out.

I dont care who the kids are.Release the names of their parents!Maybe a little embarrassment for the parents and they will start to pay more attention to what their kids are doing!

wow 12 years old and already known to police...

So young and already engaged in criminal activities!

What a shame! One wonders how they will be dealt with by the justice system?

Slap on the wrist, of course! After all, it's not their fault - it's society's fault, of course!

It's OUR fault.

Can someone show me some examples of kids this age who have become usefull to society after the courts give them their "rehab"?

Yuh know, they're kids, and usually kids are brain damaged til they leave home, and some for many years thereafter. But don't even think that a spank'in's gonna help, heck you'd end up arrested fer assault.
There's a Federal Statute fer kids, it's the You Can't Just Arrest Act, or for all you laypersons, the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
Usually you have to take them home. You can't name them, heaven forbid, the parents would sue the system and cost us more money in taxes.
It's probation and maybe if it's a repeat offence one of them may end up doing 10 days as a wake up pill, but usually the kindly lawyer will tell the judge of all the hardships the poor boy has been through since his last offence and its more probation. Darn near wants to make you cry. Give 'em an axe and a wood pile, no supper till its all split, well it MIGHT work.............

Thats right coastb you have the answer. Musta been your parents fault you turned out the way you did.

Interceptor I know 12 young adults off the top of my head who were criminals as teenagers, were in jail, probation, the whole 9 yards.
Three of the 12 graduated from university and are now in professional careers.
Three are enrolled in college.
Two are at-home moms and not on welfare.
And four work full time in the work force and two of these four are in the process of applying to college.
The general public only hear the bad stories. There are many successes. I have numerous colleagues who can back me up with other examples.

I know a person who got the house broken into in this perticular ares. Seeing the house and the aftermath, it was a work of a teenager(s).

It seems interesting to me that no matter where you look, it seems almost everyone has the same opinion. "release the names of the young offenders". "release the names of the parents".

I totally agree. I've been agreeing with this for years and years. If so many people agree and want this to happen, why can we not make it happen?

The problem lies with our government and the crooked, liar polititians that we continue to elect. We do it to ourselves. We really do. These polititians make it seem like they have OUR best interest in mind. What a crock. And anyone that believes otherwise is either related to them or is friends with them or has benefited from them somehow.

Let's stop this.

Back in the old days-and in some countries it still happens, their hands would be cut off-not that bad of an idea.

dnakamura, it's great to hear that some criminals have been rehabilitated or that they chose to rehabilitate themselves.

Now, how many criminals do you know who have criminal records as longs as an arm and are still committing crimes? And what about the victims on whom those who changed their ways inflicted their crimes?

I personally know victims of home invasions who have been traumatized for life, who have turned their homes into fortresses and some who sold their homes because they simply could not live in their homes anymore after they had been victimized, their personal property gone through, trashed or stolen?

I think the general public should know more about the physical and psychological damage these misfits have perpetrated on some of us and are continuing to do so!

PrinceGeorge I can't agree more. The fear, resentment, anger these victims face can't be undone without a good psychologist or a very good therapist. Still, they are looking at ways of protecting themselves better in the future, be that by barricades, firearms, bearspray etc.
If more people train their kids, and adults to always lock doors, never open it without knowing who's there, securing windows and using that alarm, there'd be less.
We're always gonna have scum in this town so people have to guard against it and screw the inconvenience of locking the door or installing a peephole.

Prince George and Slim, I couldn't agree with you guys more. These perpetrators do quite the number on their victims and the scars don't go away.
Many years ago when I was in college a man broke into my apartment and I suffered serious injuries. It took me a long time to get over the trauma, but I was bound and determined not to allow the jerk to ruin my life. I was young then and I had many years in front of me. Thank God I had a great therapist who helped me through some difficult times.
We have lots of criminals in this town and many of them are chronic and will never change. My earlier post was to point to the successful ones who turned their lives around. Just trying to shed some positive light on a dark subject.