FIVE TEENS ARRESTED IN STOLEN CAR
Full story at https://caainc.org.au/
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“Four teenage girls and a 12-year-old boy have been arrested and a number of machetes seized after allegedly leading police on a chase across Melbourne’s eastern suburbs in a stolen car” - Herald Sun on the 8th of August 2024.
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This report is a far too common theme: young children committing very serious crimes, and the headline response from the government is to raise the age of criminal responsibility from ten to thirteen in the new Youth Justice Bill currently before parliament. What an inane response.
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Unbelievable as it may seem, the new Bill also removes any accountability for young offenders and gives them control of their processing.
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The Bill imbues the child perpetrator with the power to reject any efforts to manage their behaviour by authorities.