Because they're underage, they would not get as severe a sentence, that's what the gang leaders are counting on, but, if those who are behind these crimes get caught, they will have an even more severe sentence! On crimes and punishment…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The seventeen-year-old adolescent, Wu turned himself in after firing off thirteen shots on the nineteenth in Hsinbei and Taipei Cities, the following day, the seventeen-year-old Liu of the Hongren Gumi took an Uzi, started firing off into a pawnshop in Tucheng a total of fifty-one times, then, got on a getaway cab like nothing had happened, the communities started wondering if the gangs are now using the fact that adolescents get punished less severely for crimes, to groom them into "teenage shooters". The justice department reiterated, that abetting children, adolescents to commit crimes, unless the individuals can be absolutely certain that they won't get caught, otherwise, the price to pay is even higher.
The most famous "adolescent gunman" of recent years was the gunning down of the gang leader, Weng of Taichung by Liao, back then, Liao was yet to turn eighteen; in 2019, a teashop in Shaloo, Taichung was shot into by rifles, the man, Shi was murdered, one of the gunman, Lee was also underage.
The juvenile court and family courts of the justice department told, that people may think, that "adolescent gunmen if they get caught, they won't get sentenced severely, and whoever it was behind it, won't get caught", it's just not understanding the law in depth, because the children & adolescent law stated, "abetting by an adult, using the minors to commit a crime, the individual will have half of the sentences added on".
the comparison of the teenage and adult brains, found online
The juvenile and family courts pointed out, that if the adolescent is found guilty of felony of more than five years, then, they would no longer be tried as juveniles anymore, that it would go to the criminal courts, if the adolescents murdered, it would be hard to claim, "I didn't know any better", but the sentences are lighter compared to adults. Criminal law stated that criminals eighteen and under, will not be sentenced to death, nor life in prison, and under fourteen years of age, there would be no punishment, between fourteen and eighteen, the individuals can get reduced sentencing.
Liao received thirty years, and was fined $1.2 million N.T.s, which made the most severe sentence for juveniles historically at the time.
And so, this still just showed, how the gang leaders should NOT think that if they get their underaged "goonies" to do their bidding, they are home free, because it does NOT work that way, but, these heads of gangs are still, using this, big loophole, to tap into the needs of adolescent members' need to belong, and using these, "innocent", "little", children to do their, bidding.
