Assault with deadly weapon: Girl hits boy with rock.

[javasaurus]

An eleven-year-old girl hit a boy in the head with a two-pound rock. She is being charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon. Thoughts?

Here's the article from WTOPnews.com

Comments

[culfinriel.livejournal.com]

Um, I probably missed this somewhere, but, since when does stuff like this get the police called in? What happened to parents talking to their kids and to the other parents about what is and isn't ok behavior and thinking before you do something and learning how to develop some judgement, etc.? Does somebody seriously think putting an eleven year old in jail is going to benefit the child or society? And if this kid is being raised in an environment where violence is the norm, how is prison going to counter the influence that's already clearly had on her? As for resisting the police, she's eleven, she's scared and or angry, they're strangers and should have had her parents present (again, might have missed some of the details) and are probably not regarded as the good guys in this neighborhood. Please tell me that Mirandizing an eleven year old, regardless of language, is not seriously going to hold up in court if grown adults can get away with claiming not to have understood their rights. Besides, does being charged with a felony automatically make you an emancipated minor? If not, she can't legally be read her rights without her parents present, anyway. Don't they have to meet some kind of probable cause standard to imprison someone? Couldn't the police have just taken the kids home and spoken to both of their parents? I think I'll just stop now...

[javasaurus.livejournal.com]

The police probably responded to the 911 call for an ambulance. Supposedly, the message they got was that a 13 year old was bashing a 6 year old with a rock, they assumed gang violence, and responded accordingly. As for probable cause, they had a rock, a bleeding boy, lots of witnesses, etc.

What happened to parents talking to their kids and to the other parents about what is and isn't ok behavior and thinking before you do something and learning how to develop some judgement, etc.?

Been asking that for years...