First of all , parents have been using the statutory rape law to their advantage for years. So you’re telling me that the 15 year old girl can consent to her 17 yo boyfriend, but then is unable to consent the minute he blows out the candles on his 18th birthday . Really??
When did I say that??? Nope. As I understand it, in some jurisdictions, both of them would be legally guilty of "engaging in unlawful sex with another person."
Minors who are in their right state of mind and commit 1st degree murder without any influence from another party should be tried as an adult!!!
That's your opinion, but it's not the law.
If you had a loved one who was murdered by a kid who wanted to know the feeling of killing someone and carefully planned it, you would want them tried as an adult!! You’d be cutting your nose to spite your face if you say that you didn’t...
Laws are made by calm, reasoning people in healthy states of mind, not grieving people. Either a person of a certain age is capable of knowing right from wrong and being held accountable for their decisions, or they are not. But that doesn't change because I am connected to the victim and therefore more upset.
My own feeling is there should not be exceptions where we try minors as adults. We set the age where they go from minor to adult and then we prosecute accordingly. Whether that age is 18 or 13, I'll leave to psychologists to decide. But it's ridiculous to say someone of a certain age is a minor, but since I am personally angry they should be tried as an adult.
And come on, there’s been a lot of these incidents in the news over the years. So maybe by chance not this one. But what about the teacher in Texas who was having an orgy with her students . They’re all slapping each other high 5’s and she got 5 years....
As a group they had the power to “No” . But they didn’t. They all consented and ran the train on her instead....
This case makes my point even more. In addition to pressure from an adult in a position of power over you, you are adding in mob mentality and peer pressure from everyone else. Yeah, I'm sure the couple of kids in that situation who didn't want to do it really felt safe saying no. They weren't going to be made fun of or bullied or anything like that at all. I don't know this case, but from the little info you gave, I have no problem with her sentence.