Boy, 12, and three friends aged 13 found GUILTY of gang raping 14- year-old girl over three days

[Tiger80]

But adults didnt show them a society where there is rape everywhere. Rape is a whole different thing than sex, I hope you understand that. Most people like sex, very few resort to rape, even if they don't get any. It's like sating if the adults show teenagers a world full of money, they would naturally turn thieves. Or if adults show teenagers a world full of life, they would turn into murderers. They were not teasing girls, or flirting or trying to buy sex, they were raping. Rape is a lot more about sadistic pleasure, cruelty and control. And they didnt do it once, they repeated it, went on for three whole days which also shows a total lack of remorse. Do you know how miserable the girl must have become in three whole days time? How much she must have begged? How much she must have screamed in pain? How much she must have cried, sobbed. No dude, it's not the least bit about sex. This is something way more than that. Sex was just a side act.

Not denying girls suffering but voilent juvenile crimes are fact and in almost all cases there is sufferer.The question is how to treat voilent juvenile criminals .Give them harsh punishment like 20-25 years in prison , try to reform them with few years in or just kill them give them life without parole. If harsh punishment like 20 years will be given even then they will be out when they are 32 possibly being as dangerous criminals and will harm society and will make lot of innocent suffer.So you decide what is better? BTW here is something on juvenile crime

Many youths have little parental oversight and are too easily influenced by gang membership and glamorized violence in popular culture. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18671013/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/rising-crime-blamed-youth-violence-gangs/

3. With appropriate treatment most children who commit crimes, even the most violent crimes, can be rehabilitated and become responsible adults. Precisely because their brains are still changing. The prefrontal cortex - which regulates aggression, long range planning, mental flexibility, abstract thinking, and perhaps moral judgment (See Bower Study) has not yet developed in children. The amygdala, the center of impulsive and aggressive behavior is the center piece of the child brain and is left unchecked by the under developed prefrontal cortex. 4. Psychological research confirms what every parent knows: children, including teenagers, act more irrationally and immaturely than adults. Studies further confirm that stressful situations only heighten the risk that emotion, rather than rational thought, will guide the choices children make. The Supreme Court recognized just this! In Roper v. Simmons, Justice Kennedy wrote: "any parent knows" and "scientific and sociological studies ... tend to confirm "that children possess a "lack of maturity" .. an underdeveloped sense of responsibility .. [and take] impetuous and ill-considered actions and decisions." http://www.teenadvocatesusa.org/10reasonswhy.html

[Crookbond]

How about the fact that we do not know what has happened in this case and let the experts do their job?

[The Outsider]

Any justice system needs to base itself on reform and not retribution. Retribution never makes the world a better place, reform does.

[DomainK]

Any justice system needs to base itself on reform and not retribution. Retribution never makes the world a better place' date=' reform does.[/quote'] Agreed. But it's idiotic to assume that a crminal is automatically reformed by turning 18. Teen-agers who clearly show every sign of being sociopaths should be treated long and well enough.

[SLICKR392]

12, 13 and 14 look at those bloody ages :facepalm:

[donkey]

I blame both parties....