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[quote=Anonymous]I have not read the entire thread, but I did read about the crime when it happened (I refused to watch the video). I was dismayed for the victim and his family. But this crime really hit me because I have two daughters who are 12 and a half and 15. Being involved in such a horrible crime just to steal a car (for fun I presume since they cannot certainly drive it at that age and apparently they did not even know how to do it since they crashed) at that young age. I just could not thinking what kind of horrid family life and environment could bring my girls to do something like that and it would have to be so horrid to be traumatic.

I am not a softie and I live in DC and certainly don't want to be murdered by an idiot 12 yr old, even one with  a bad family life. however, I believe that these girls are also victims. one of them has been arrested multiple times this year for serious crimes like robberies and carjacking, crimes that can easily turn deadly especially when committed by a very young person. we should have a system under which a person that young who commits such a serious crime is helped right away in a way that she is re-educated instead of just waiting for a death and then we lock her up for life. I am not an expert, but maybe interventions like removing the child  from the environment in which she is growing and taker her somewhere else, not a prison but a family-like environment  where she can grow up and somehow be re-educated, not just in terms of schooling but in terms of learning how to live in society. I would not be surprised if these kids where also acting out at school, were behind in school, or missing school regularly, all red flags. in other words, yes we can lock them up and throw the key but there are other kids like that and maybe helping them in a manner than works can help them and us at the same time. one of my girls had almost the same age as Relisha Rudd when she disappeared and when that happened I had a similar reaction, seeing my shy, happy child and thinking about the desperate life that the little girl of the same age was having at the same time.   [/quote]

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