• Cort@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Here’s another: if the child is responsible enough to be charged as an adult, does that mean the parent wasn’t required to be responsible?

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      2 months ago

      I propose(not really): Double Adult-ardy.

      That looks bad now that I typed it out, but it’s supposed to be like double jeopardy… But again, not really. If a teen is committing one of the worst crimes an adult could possibly commit, and it’s so callous, there’s a point of no return. Where that point is, I don’t know, and of course younger would get even murkier. I’d say obviously the parent could still be culpable as in any accessory to crime, though.