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Everything in context.  Yes, they are young enough that their judgment in grey areas is suspect and should be given the benefit of the doubt and transferred to juvenile court.  They are not so young that they cannot understand the severity of felonious crimes.  There is no grey area when dealing with murder, rape, or violent crimes.  A 15 year old should definitely know that these are very definitely and unequivocally wrong and punishable crimes.  In this age of #MeToo, media coverage and social media coverage, all teens should have a very strong idea that any time of non-consensual acts of violence are very wrong.  There have been dozens of hazing crimes that have gone national in the last few years and it should be obvious that hazing is not a joke, or acceptable in any way.  Just Google "hazing crimes" and you'll get lists and most of these perps are being charged in court for felony crimes.  If these are honor roll students, they know what that means.  If the media and defense are going to try to postulate that these are honor roll students who are "good kids" then they should be smart enough to know better.

This correctly deserves to be in the adult court system.  If this were something like shoplifting, B&E, or some other victimless crime, I agree that 15 is young to be able to discern the severity of a victimless crime, but it is not too young to know how wrong a violent crime against a victim is.  There is a very good reason for the automatic waive-up rule for serious crimes and it definitely applies in this case.

[b]If these boys had forced an underaged girl into the high school locker room and sexually assaulted her, would you think that this was a juvenile court system crime?[/b]  If you do, then I question your own moral standards and am glad that wiser and more mature individuals have crafted our court guidelines.  There is nothing youthful or innocent about first degree rape.
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Yes.

To repeat: it's the juvenile justice system because the alleged crime-committers are juveniles, not because the crimes are non-serious.[/quote]
Thankfully the law doesn’t agree with you and these sick bastards are being charged as adults.[/quote]

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