SHOULD JUVENILES BE CHARGED AS ADULTS IN CRIMINAL CASES TRINA LEVESQUE POST UNIVERSITY Abstract In 1984 in Butte Mt, two boys (boys simply because of their age) Michael Horvath age 15 and Ted Gibson age 14, committed some unspeakable acts. Michael and Ted had brutally taken the lives of their mothers as well as the life of Ted’s 16 year old sister. These two were sentenced to a juvenile detention facility until the age of 21, after which their juvenile records were sealed and they were able to go on with their lives as if it never happened. I feel that justice was not served for the victims. After this heinous act the laws of MT were swiftly changed to charge juveniles as adults if they commit an adult crime.
He was born on February 18, 1949 in Salt Lake City, Utah (Biography, 2015). Ridgway’s first murder was committed in 1982 of young teenagers who had left their home and also prostitutes. He brought many of them to his home and strangled them, leaving them in remote sites, most of them ended up in the Green River (Biography, 2015). Ridgway received many life sentences but made a deal with investigators that he would reveal the hidden bodies where his confession would subsidize the consequences. Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis was that people’s actions were impacted by their unconscious mind.
“ I worked seven day a week at one or both of my jobs,” Tamarla Owens tells Insight. The boy’s father, Dedric Owens, was serving time in the county jail when his son took tat loaded gun to school. Dedric reportedly said that when he heard there had been a school shooting he knew the shooter was his boy. The father had been on parole since December 1999 but had been rearrested the Sunday. Little Kayla was killed by her classmate in Flint, Michigan.
On March 24, 1998, three boys, ages 11, 13, and 15, unloaded a slew of mini arsenals and were responsible for the deaths of four students and a teacher. Attorney Janet Reno wanted to lock these boys up until the age of 21 if convicted. The outcome of
James Minor Mr. Jones English 1420 22, June, 2014 Making the decision to put a person to death for a murder he/she committed can be very serious. That is why when I read the article about a 16 year old boy who had killed his mother, had a party and sold items from the house, I was in total disbelief. This behavior is totally unacceptable. The boy, whose name is Kitt, and his 3 year old brother were both in the home when the murder had taken place. According to relatives who lived nearby, Kitt had been upset because his mother had sent him off to boot camp weeks prior.
In order to be accepted, He began to spend time with a group of skateboarders. He was accepted by this group but they also teased and bullied him occasionally. Shortly before the shooting, Williams spoke on two occasions of his plan to "pull a Columbine" at Santana High School, but no reports were ever made of these threats to the school. (Columbine High School shootings, a massacre that occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, leaving 15 dead, including the two students responsible for the attack. It was one of the deadliest school shooting incidents in American history.)
[2][3] Arrested a month before his 16th birthday,[4] he was tried and convicted as a minor. By law, this meant that he would be released and his criminal records sealed as soon as he turned 21. [2][5] Price bragged that he would "make history" when he was released. [2] The case led to changes in state law to allow juveniles to be tried as adults for serious crimes, but these could not be applied retroactively to Price. [3] Due to the brutality of his crimes and the opinion of state psychologists that he
“WET”, A CONTINUING TREND THAT NEEDS TO STOP 31 year old Osvaldo Rivera of Camden, New Jersey was arrested for the September 02, 2012 deadly stabbing of his two children, Dominick Andujar 6 years old and his sister Amber 12 years old. Two other children in the home were uninjured in the attack. According to police Mr. Rivera was high on marijuana and PCP when he fatally stabbed his son and critically injured his sister while they were asleep. Upon arrival to scene by officers, witnesses heard the screaming of a young girl stating her younger brother needed help. Mr. Rivera was not present at the scene and was later tracked down by information given from several witnesses.
Between the hours of 12:00AM and 1:00AM on April 19th Dzhokar and Tamerlan were spotted and they engaged in a shoot-out with the officers. During the pursuit improvised explosive devices were thrown at the police, as many as 300 rounds were exchanged. Tamerlan was killed by police during the exchange. Dzhokar, while escaping the scene ran over his brother’s body and got away from the police. Britannica.com 23 July 2014 Boston Marathon bombing of 2013 This was the start of the manhunt that shut down the city of Boston.
One of the most remembered and tragic school shootings that started this tragic trend around the country was the “Columbine School shooting” on April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in Columbine, located in Jefferson County in the State of Colorado. This was a highly planed and complex attack that involved a fire bomb to divert firefighters, propane tanks that were converted to bombs that were placed in the cafeteria, bombs rigged in cars, and 99 explosive devices. This attack was planned and carried by 2 students, Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold. Total of 12 students and 1 teacher were murdered during this attack that took place on the campus of the school. They also injured 27additional students during this attack.