Impulsive behaviors, standing UP for our friends, due to our, not-yet-completely developed PREFRONTAL CORTEXES, and now, all of them will be charged with vandalism, damage of government properties, yada, yada, yada…a loophole in getting away with the severity of crimes they committed because of their young age, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The seventeen-year-old Chang was involved in a scam as a pickup driver, two days ago he was picked up by the officers of the third substation of the Taichung Police, after the interrogations, he was sent home, the teen was suspected of being upset over the attitude of the officer who interrogated him, he'd complained to the adolescent, Sun and the nineteen-year-old man, Chu, Chu and Sun in the midnight hours of last night, went to the substation, and committed arson on the patrol vehicles, but the fires were put on in time. The police immediately arrested all three, after the district attorneys interrogated them, Chu was charged on public endangerment and taken into police custody, the two adolescents were sent to juvenile court.
adolescents in juvenile detention...photo from online
The third substation of Taichung was chasing a case of hundreds of thousands of dollars being withdrawn fraudulently, found the seventeen-year-old middle school dropout, Chang was involved, two days ago, they'd notified him to come to the police station; after the interrogations, Chang complained to his seventeen-year-old best friend, Sun, his nineteen-year-old pal, Chu that "the police use a bad attitude in interrogating me", the two felt the need to back up their friend, bought the gasoline in the plastic bottles, in the midnight hours of last night, they rode a scooter, with the license plate covered up to the outside of the substation, Chu lit up the toilet paper that was stuffed at the opening of the plastic bottle, tossed the lit up bottle toward a squad car parked outside the station.
The two escaped after they'd committed arson, the locals found the fire, rushed into the station and told the officers on duty, the officers were able to put out the fire in the shortest time, and reviewed over the surveillance footages afterwards, and five hour later, they were all arrested at a rental suite in Xitun, Taichung, and the police confiscated another plastic bottle with gasoline in it.
During the police interrogations, Chang claimed, that he was only, "pouring his troubles out" to his friends, denied the allegations of telling his friends to commit arson on the police vehicles, Sun and Chu said, they were only, "backing Chang". The case will be prosecuted on juvenile laws, public endangerment, obstruction of public affairs, and the teens are going to get sent to Taichung Juvenile Court to try.
The city police's adolescent crime unit captain, Kao told, that they hadn't seen an increase in adolescent crime rates, but the increased severity of the criminal behaviors of teens is alarming; the means of the country in handling crimes involving minors is "paperwork and warning", as the adolescents committed the crimes, they're sent to juvenile detention, but due to the misconceptions of the adolescents not getting tried as adults, they are easily used as the tools to commit the crimes by others, and how to prevent the teens from committing more serious offenses, this needs to start from the facets of education, legislature, and counseling.
versus the adult inmates...photo from online
And so, the "not tried as an adult" became a get-out-of-jail-free card for these younger people who committed the crimes, because they're, not "of age", so even IF they committed the adult crimes such as murder, rape, aggravated assault, etc., etc., etc. (the more serious offenses), they are still, not getting a harsh enough punishment, and the adult-led crime rings are using this, as a hole in the justice systems.
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