Houston DA Charges 12-year-old Boy with Capital Murder
May 1st, 2009 by Robert Franklin, Esq.A 12-year-old boy has been charged with capital murder in Houston. Apparently, his mother and another woman left him at home "in charge" of several (no one seems to know how many) younger children including a 10-month-old baby. Later, he called his mother and told her the baby, Deandre Washington, had stopped breathing. Someone at the house had thrown the baby to the floor, causing injuries to her head. She was pronounced dead two days later. Read about it here (MSNBC, 4/22/09).
Authorities believe that the 12-year-old threw the baby down but now it develops that it may have been a seven-year-old (Houston Chronicle, 4/23/09).
Let's see. Two adults leave numerous children (one has nine children, the other three) in a house with a 12-year-old "in charge." A child dies and he's the one charged. With capital murder.
Of course, maybe the seven-year-old did it. Maybe the Harris County District Attorney will become the first DA to charge a person that young with capital murder. Maybe he'll seek the death penalty.
The blood lust of prosecutors seems to know no bounds. No matter the facts, it seems, they pursue the most outrageous charges. I wrote not long ago about an educator of 30 years whom a DA tried to hound out of his career and into prison for the horrifying offense of possessing a digital image of a partially-clad 17-year-old girl with her arms folded across her breasts. He had been tasked by his school superior with investigating "sexting" at the school and a student provided him the photo.
These prosecutors play the tough guy only against the weakest of defendants. My guess is that most of them looked at Mike Nifong and learned their lesson - only charge guys who can't mount a defense. I guess Houston residents are supposed to be impressed with his toughness on crime. He's got a 12-year-old boy of modest means in his sights.
Decades ago, former United States Attorney General and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Robert Jackson said "The citizen's safety lies in the prosecutor who tempers zeal with human kindness, who seeks truth and not victims..."
Capital murder. Just amazing.
Thanks to Bernie and Jeremy for the heads-up.
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May 1st, 2009 at 9:48 am
Well, it's not like he smothered a newborn and dumped it in a trash, because if he had, the DA would be ok with it.
This kid shouldn't be incarcerated, his parent (s) should be.
May 1st, 2009 at 9:58 am
12 year old, 7 year old, doesn't really matter.
The Mothers left these kids alone with a child who was just suspended from school for fighting, so they showed a lack of concern for the welfare of their children. In fact, the sympathy and concern the system is showing these Mothers by, pardon the pun, "throwing the baby under the bus" will only lead to more abuse of the system, and infant deaths, by single mothers who want to go out shopping while their kids stay home alone.
Maybe we can have every taxpayer pay a daycare tax, so single moms can go shopping while dropping their kids off at taxpayer funded daycre facilities, heck that will allow the village to raise the kids, and we al know some politicians want that to be an acceptable practice.
Again, I say charge MOM, not the kid, and make it clear that leaving children home alone, is not acceptable. either stay home, hire a babysitter, or Stay married.
May 1st, 2009 at 9:59 am
I wonder who'd be arrested if a father left his 12 year old Daughter in charge of 10 month old and the infant ended up dead.
May 1st, 2009 at 10:13 am
Damn miles, you beat me to "reverse the genders".
Not to mention if the two fathers had left a 12y/o in charge of 11 other children.
No way would the fathers be able to escape some kind of criminal charge of neglect.
If the person has a penis he must be charged. If the person has a vagina, she must be a victim (unless the assailant also has a vagina then she is out of luck).
May 1st, 2009 at 10:17 am
Great point Offended Dad,
a 20something mom (who SHOULD know better) PRE-MEDITATIVELY kills an infant and "she's suffered enough".
A 12 (or 7) y/o boy (who legally speaking doesn't NECESSARILY know better) kills a child on accident and it's "STRING HIM UP! YOU GET THE HORSE, I'LL GET THE ROPE!"
How much more insane can the gender sentencing discount get?
We now hold TWELVE YEAR OLD BOYS to higher standards of conduct than ADULT WOMEN!
Feminism is all about infantilization of women.
May 1st, 2009 at 10:18 am
12 year old boys are now held to be more legally culpable for their actions than adult women are . Real feminists want equality, gender feminists have an agenda.
May 1st, 2009 at 10:21 am
This man has no place being a judge, and should be removed from the bench.
May 1st, 2009 at 10:36 am
if he gets a sex change operation maybe they'll drop the charges
May 1st, 2009 at 10:41 am
Okay I saw on the very same site.
A few things:
The girl cannot be tried as an adult because she is under 14.
But a 12yo boy can be charged with capital murder and face 40yr.
Tim Tyler, assistant police chief of Katy, said detectives were investigating allegations by neighbors that the girl may have been a victim of abuse. A neighbor told reporters Wednesday there had been tension between the girl and her father recently.
Once again looking for justification for a woman/girl to kill in cold blood. I wonder if anyone is going to look at the two moms that left this 12yo boy "in charge" of several small children....
Residents of the Heritage Park West subdivision still were in shock about the fatal shooting Thursday evening.
The obligatory shock and awe.
Public records show Mark Nelson had a criminal record that included an assault charge and several misdemeanors in the 1990s.
But remember its wrong to bring up a woman victim's past
May 1st, 2009 at 11:03 am
In America common sense is dead. The feminist's criminalization of men legislation and enforcement knows no bounds when it includes male children.
May 1st, 2009 at 11:33 am
See, *women* have the choice to commit infanticide, and it's not the same as murder. Women can abandon children, abort them at a whim, or leave the care of a dozen children to a 12 year old, and it's not a problem.
However, dead-beat dads require 5 billion annually to harass, confiscate assets, and incarcerate for years over a civil court decision, but women can't be expected to live up to other aspects regarding the same court decision.
Wow, and when men have justifiable contempt for women in general, it's misogyny, and a venal sin.
May 1st, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Its just business as usual for the University elite. We are all to dumb to understand their enlightenment so we need to just trust that this 12 year old boy is responsible for his mothers children.
Its interesting to see that the enemies of civilization sit right before our eyes yet we cant work through our cognitive dissonance to call them out.
May 1st, 2009 at 1:10 pm
With less than 5% of the world's population, the U.S.A. leads the world in the number of males behind bars at about 25% of the world inmate population. There are about 200 countries in the world and a couple with over 1 billion citizens.
I do not wonder why she's an incarceration nation, when she continues to sent male children to prison, even to consider it is wrong, while turning justice away from criminal women.
Conclusion: the U.S.A. hates her men and boys.
Application: leave the U.S.A. Not only will you find a job, as there are no "diversity" laws, but you will not be treated less than dogs.
May 1st, 2009 at 1:15 pm
...Men (and boys): Lock 'em up and throw away the key. If they don't happen to be guilty, well, that's just necessary collateral damage.
...Women (and girls): Make excuses for their bad behavior.
May 1st, 2009 at 1:44 pm
The source article indicated that the child's name is being "witheld because he's a minor", but the full last names of the two adults are given, as well as the number of kids each has. What is the point of concealing their identity? It's pretty easy to figure out who the 12 year old is if you know the families even remotely. There is no protection at all being offered for this child...only for the two adults who are clearly not cooperating with authorities since it is "still not clear whether the 12 year old" was left in charge. Unbelieveable.
May 1st, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Women living off of protected citizen status.
May 1st, 2009 at 2:43 pm
"There is no protection at all being offered for this child...only for the two adults who are clearly not cooperating with authorities since it is "still not clear whether the 12 year old" was left in charge. Unbelieveable."
One word expalnation for you, Lisa - Texas. This is a macho gender sterotype gone rancid. You can't blame feminists for this one.
May 1st, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Ya know - almost EVERY day I come to this site. It amazes me. I tell my co-workers, and they DO believe me, but in a way "they don't" - in that - THIS INSANITY in our courts is just unchecked.
A GIRL possibly killed the child, the BOY is charged, and he's charged as an adult.
The PARENTS of the children are not charged for, ya know, leaving a child in charge of children.
EVERY DAMN DAY we see this stuff, and it never ceases to just freaking amaze me.
Steven
May 1st, 2009 at 4:42 pm
"Application: leave the U.S.A. Not only will you find a job, as there are no "diversity" laws, but you will not be treated less than dogs."
Working on it...
May 1st, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Let me guess..they are black? So many kids and leaving a pre-teen in charge sounds like a black case
May 1st, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Bob,
I gotta say, that was a bullsh*t comment. The woman in the article on Glenn's site earlier who was in a homeless shelter and left her son for DAYS with another HOMELESS person was a white chick.
So, let's not go there.
Steven
May 1st, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Poor kid. I wonder how he's coping with it all.
May 2nd, 2009 at 12:05 am
Well it does seem that even the little ones receive a female discount. There are several very notable things about this article. Her name is not mentioned. She shot her dad in the back of the head, execution style. She is charged with only aggravated assault. It appears that she used the element of surprise, she used a weapon, there were "tensions" between the girl and dad, he was likely sleeping, they do not mention the dads name either, presumably so no one could figure out who the name of the girl.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30499260
Yet in this article of an 8 year old boy it is two pages long. He did not shoot execution style. He is charged with homicide, he did use a weapon but there does not seem to be an element of surprise, the dad’s name was mentioned it does not appear that he was sleeping, and the article length is longer.
Here are some other articles about boys that are similar in criteria:
Boy 10, May Receive 11 Years in Beating of Vet
Boy 13, May Receive 12 Years in Baseball Bat Beating and death
Boy 11, May Receive 10 years for Homicide
Boy 12 Faces Capital Murder Charge and 40 Years
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May 2nd, 2009 at 2:26 am
Bob,
I've got to agree with L. Steven Beene. This isn't a racial thing and that wasn't really necessary. The fact is, this is an irresponsible and criminal act of a parent.
it is grotesque that this boy is being charged as an adult for murder, but a 14 year old girl can have an abortion without even telling her parents. What a f'd up system we have come to in this country.
May 2nd, 2009 at 10:56 am
This is not a murder case, at best it's manslaughter, more realistically it's a horrible accident. Even many adults don't have the coping skills to deal with a crying infant.
That said, personally I don't care is they have videotape of the 12 year old saying I hate you while throwing the infant down the stairs, they are 12! They are mentally unable to grasp
Capital Murder should be reserved for cold blooded, pre-meditated, murder where there are aggravating circumstances. SCOTUS has already held that the death penalty for minors is unconstitutional.
May 4th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Adults should never leave young people in charge of babies, but get real, men. Girls babysit at 12. I did. I never harmed a kid. You DO know better. A 7 year old has fewer skills, but a 12 year old should not be throwing down babies. Unless you’re mentally challenged, you DO know better.
Remember those 10 year old boys in England who lured a 2 year old boy and tortured him horrifically to death? Did they not know any better either? (Probably not, since they were BOYS, right?)
And in Arizona, an 8 year old boy shot to death his father and another man. After saying originally that he would be charged with murder, it looks like he won’t be charged with anything. This kid will most likely get off the hook as well. So stop worrying and pretending that a girl who did any different would be treated differently.
May 4th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Hey, for those of you who want to downplay the 12 year old’s mental ability to handle children, how come most of you are perfectly ok with a 12 (or 11 or 10 or 9) year old girl being forced to continue a pregnancy against her will and care for an infant? Why is a girl considered to be so extremely mature, but a boy is just a little brainless boob? For all your talk of how feminists supposedly want to treat women as infants, I think you have it backwards. No one would EVER think of handing an infant to a 10 year old boy and saying, “It’s your responsibility” and walking away. But they don’t think twice about doing that to a 10 year old girl, do they?
Au contraire. We need to stop acting like males have no clue when it comes to children and excusing the things they do to kids.
May 4th, 2009 at 11:01 am
terri,
“USA hates her men and boys”? It’s not that we hate men and boys. It’s because we have an enormous prison industry that lobbies for tough punishment for victimless crimes.
Also, are the men and boys innocent? Probably not, for the most part. But don’t blame feminists or the USA; blame those who think privatizing the prison industry and allowing their lobbyists to write legislation is a good thing.
May 4th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
This was my experience:
My boyfriend's ex-wife who WORKS for CPS routinely left the then 10 yr old, 7 year old and almost 3 yr old alone without supervision. When we brought this up we were told "as long as one child knows how to dial 911 it's ok"
NOW when this same ex-wife phoned in a fake CPS report against my boyfriend for "age inappropriate work" (we had the kids collect twigs and stack them for about 40 minutes in the backyard when they were on visitation;obviously the kids didn't like the work and complained to mother) this got IMMENSE PLAY; we had the CPS worker from our county (one county over from ex-wife's) out immediately to inspect the house, yard, etc. give both myself and boyfriend phone interviews, etc. I was told that although I have 0% authority to discipline said children I have 100% of the responsbility for the safety and well being of said children as a quasi "stepmom." In other words all the responsibilities of parenthood but no rights. Ex-wife used her "weight" at work to have this report pushed through as "founded" and sent directly to the NYS Child Abuse and Maltreatment Center with no copy of the report to us to refute it. I had to query the office and then they CYA'd by saying it was a "clerical error" that we didn't get the report (yeah right). More like a vindictive ex-wife error.
The children in question aren't very mature for their ages and most recently
SD10 had to go to the emergency room for a pencil jammed up her ear. Of course my boyfriend was not told about this probably b/c it happened when the kids were yet again unsupervised. He only found out when attending one of her Lacrosse games and saw the cotton ball in her ear; then he had the NERVE as the father to ASK about it! (sarcasm off)
May 4th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
jeana:
Hey, for those of you who want to downplay the 12 year old’s mental ability to handle children, how come most of you are perfectly ok with a 12 (or 11 or 10 or 9) year old girl being forced to continue a pregnancy against her will and care for an infant?
Who said they were okay with this?
Why is a girl considered to be so extremely mature, but a boy is just a little brainless boob?
That probably dates back to the age old assumption that girls mature faster than boys. Women don't seem to have a problem with that assumption when it suits them.
For all your talk of how feminists supposedly want to treat women as infants, I think you have it backwards. No one would EVER think of handing an infant to a 10 year old boy and saying, “It’s your responsibility” and walking away.
Now this is odd. Supposedly 12 year old girls are "mature and responsible" enough to babysit small children but when it comes to committing a crime the girl card is played. On the other hand 12 year old boys are so "immature and irresponsible" that they don't make good babysitters (and don't even get me started on the child molestation assumptions) but when it comes to committing a crime they are held to a higher standard of responsibility than grown women.
And maybe if feminists actually start speaking out against how women take advantage of their infantalized status when it comes to crime perhaps maybe people will stop laying some of the responsibility for at their feet. I mean since feminists have no problem saying that a man who is not feminist in their eyes is part of the problem regardless of his actual actions why do the same to why not give them some of their own medicine.
May 4th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
"Girls babysit at 12. I did. I never harmed a kid."
Yet here on this blog are 3 shining examples of grown women murdering babies for no reason.... and getting away scott-free.
May 4th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Sonja,
That is because 3 shining examples of grown women murdering babies were searched for and found and placed here purposefully for all to lament. Notice that you'll never see anything about grown men murdering or raping or molesting or selling into sex slavery, etc.
My point was that a 12-year old is old enough to know not to throw down a baby or to kill a baby. You countering by saying that sometimes grown women do that is irrelevant. Grown men do it too. Still doesn't excuse the behavior by pretending that the 12 year old had no mental capacity to know that it was wrong.
May 4th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Satchmo,
Sounds like you’re kind of screwed because your boyfriend’s ex works for CPS and can get things dismissed. Like when men in high positions can get rape charges dismissed for their friends. It’s not fair, it it?
May 4th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Danny,
Everyone who is anti-choice and who tried to force children and teens into having babies is ok with young girls being mothers. How about when judges rule that a teen is too immature to be able to make a decision to have an abortion and yet mature enough to have, support, and care for an infant? It makes absolutely no sense. And yet it happens all the time. But I’ve never heard it happen to a boy. And I’ve never heard of an underage boy being financially or otherwise responsible for a pregnancy. And maybe they should be.
Maturing faster than boys is different than being assumed to be able to parent. I personally find it offensive that anyone thinks someone young can do as good a job parenting as someone older and more mature. No they can’t.
And there are plenty of girls who are held to very high standards and punished way more than they should be. I remember reading about a 12 year old girl who was forced by a judge to have a kid since her mother couldn’t produce the girl’s father (at the time they both were required to ok an abortion and the father was completely out of the girl’s life). That same girl was before that same judge 2 years later being sentenced for child abuse. What nerve that judge had.
I’ve read so many examples of females getting much longer sentences or being forced to serve longer because of overcrowding issues than men that I can’t really take your and the other MRAs’ contention that all women are treated as infants before the law very seriously. Some get off easy. Some men get off easy too. In my mind, lots and lots of men get off easy.
May 5th, 2009 at 7:15 am
Jeana,
Can you give me a PERSONAL example of where someone charged with rape got off scott free due to a man in "high places" or are you just relying on bogus media hype, theory and conjecture as usual?
Examples accepted: one of your sisters, your mother, aunties any female relative of yours; other than that you are just spouting heresay
May 5th, 2009 at 7:22 am
oh yes and Jeana, I'll need a personal example within the last 5 years that doesn't start with "i was at this party" or "my friend was at this bar" sorry if you get liquored up and start rampantly flirting with a guy that's asking for it and entrapment; i'm old fashioned; too bad so sad,
So the example needs to be a personal example, someone related to you within the last 5 years; possibly being held at knifepoint, during broad daylight where the authorities made little to no effort to find the unrelated/unknown perp and then when they did, he got off scott free due to "men in high places" think you can come up with that?
May 5th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
jeana:
And I’ve never heard of an underage boy being financially or otherwise responsible for a pregnancy. And maybe they should be.
Actually I'll do you one better. How about the few stories of under aged boys being raped by female teachers, the female teacher keeps the child which is used as a "get out of jail early because it would be cruel for a child to be born in prison" card, AND gets awarded child support from her rape victims' parents until he comes of age and pay it himself. So an under aged boy is too young to consent to sex but responsible enough to have a child support note waiting for him at 18? And I've yet to hear of a male teacher who raped an under aged girl and was able to keep the child.
And there are plenty of girls who are held to very high standards and punished way more than they should be.
True but frankly in the mainstream media when it comes to unfair treatment a women get a good bit more attention.
I’ve read so many examples of females getting much longer sentences or being forced to serve longer because of overcrowding issues than men that I can’t really take your and the other MRAs’ contention that all women are treated as infants before the law very seriously. Some get off easy. Some men get off easy too. In my mind, lots and lots of men get off easy.
No different than feminists who either assert that men as a class are not treated unfairly or assert that men a class are treated unfairly but only have themselves to blame because they are hurt by their own gender (conveniently ignoring how women hurt men of course). Does this mean that you also see all the examples of female sentencing discounts as well as the examples of females getting treated harshly? I recall there being a mixed reaction to Chris Brown's assault on Rihanna with some trying to defend him and some simply saying he should be punished. How many feminists condemned the likes Mary Winkler (I recall some actually defending her), Clara Harris, and Claire Thompson?
May 5th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Everyone who is anti-choice and who tried to force children and teens into having babies is ok with young girls being mothers.
Stupid argument.
Everyone who is anti-abortion is also anti-children-having-sex.
My point was that a 12-year old is old enough to know not to throw down a baby or to kill a baby.
How about the possibility mentioned that the 12-year old may not have done it? Or would that go against your ideas that all men and boys are horrible bastards that deserve everything bad that happens to them? A mother of boys, no less.....
Conclusion: the U.S.A. hates her men and boys.
It's painfully obvious. I can't wait till I'm able to leave too.
May 5th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
"My point was that a 12-year old is old enough to know not to throw down a baby or to kill a baby."
Depending on their upbringing, their mental age and stage of development, they might not realise that doing so would kill the child. Some kids would get that, others might not, it really depends on too many factors to say for certain.
Truth is that the mothers should be legally liable. Leaving such a young child in charge of a baby is insanity. I wouldn't leave a toddler in the care of a 12 year old, let alone a 10-month old.
May 6th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Sonja,
No. Unless they're retarded, they know that throwing down a baby will hurt or kill them. I really object to people here pretending that young guys are too stupid to know this. No they're not.
May 6th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Satchmo,
Can you give me a PERSONAL example of where someone charged with rape got off scott free due to a man in "high places" or are you just relying on bogus media hype, theory and conjecture as usual?
I don’t have a PERSONAL example, but I just read in an article in the Nation magazine by my favorite feminist Katha Pollitt about a man who got his underling male’s rape charges dismissed and another rape charge lessened so the creep didn’t go to jail at all. Do you actually think that no men get away with rape? They mostly all get away with it. Helllllloooooooooooooooooooo.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090504/pollitt
Here in New York, Democratic State Senator Hiram Monserrate has been charged with slashing his girlfriend's face with broken glass, requiring twenty stitches. Although the woman described the attack to doctors at the hospital, and her account was backed up by pictures from a security camera outside Monserrate's apartment, his supporters staged a rally featuring a woman who claimed to be an advocate for battered women, and the party is considering raising funds for Monserrate's defense. Surprised? This is the party led by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who made rape charges against his aide J. Michael Boxley go away, according to the alleged victim; two years later, Boxley pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct (no jail time) after being charged with raping another woman.
May 6th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Danny,
How many MRAs are against violence against women? None. So don’t try to hold all feminists responsible for some not screaming about a FEW women who kill men, ok?
And exactly how many teachers are impregnated by teens and then charge the teens with child support? How many? Way, way fewer than the number of male teachers who have sex with their young female students.
May 6th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
DwS:
Stupid argument. Everyone who is anti-abortion is also anti-children-having-sex.
But if they do have sex, consensual or not, they are ok with young girls being forced into becoming moms and being responsible for the care of infants. Not a stupid argument. You’re trying to deflect what you know is true. Yeah, don’t have sex, don’t use birth control, we’ll keep you from having any information, but we’ll force you into giving birth and then charge you with a crime if you turn out not to be a good mother at the ripe old age of 11.
Your view is the stupid one.
How about the possibility mentioned that the 12-year old may not have done it? Or would that go against your ideas that all men and boys are horrible bastards that deserve everything bad that happens to them? A mother of boys, no less.....
Whether or not he did it is moot. I was responding to the posts describing the poor ignorant boy who somehow doesn’t have the mental capacity to know that it’s wrong to throw down a baby, according to you people. And yet, as I mentioned, a 12 year old girl somehow is considered capable enough to have and care for an infant she’s forced into having. DO YOU GET IT?????
And as a mother of a boy, I KNOW that boys aren’t dumb and I resent when they’re implied to be so.
May 7th, 2009 at 10:35 am
So don’t try to hold all feminists responsible for some not screaming about a FEW women who kill men, ok?
As soon as feminists:
Quit trying to hold all men responsible for the actions of some males while screaming "we're not a monolith" when someone does the same to them with females.
Simply put when feminists actually start practicing what they preach from their high horses and down their noses at men perhaps there won't be anymore hypocisy to call them on, ok?
And exactly how many teachers are impregnated by teens and then charge the teens with child support? How many? Way, way fewer than the number of male teachers who have sex with their young female students.
If you recall I mentioned that to answer this statement you made earlier:
And I’ve never heard of an underage boy being financially or otherwise responsible for a pregnancy. And maybe they should be.
So my question is, exactly how many people have said that the number of teachers impregnated by teens and charged them for support was larger than the number of male teachers that raped under aged girls? Way, way fewer than you are trying to imply.
I have to say that to claim a title that supposedly wants equality for both genders you sure as hell have no problem with playing the numbers game when it suits you.
In fact jeana your only defense on this thread is to whine that since women are the bigger victims men should shut up about their own issues and turn to helping women instead. Not the first time I've seen this attitude and I doubt its the last. Hell one could say you were playing Oppression Olympics but I think feminists gave themselves the usually loophole on that (meaning that everyone under the sun except for themselves could be guilty of such a thing) so it might not apply.
And about the 12yr old girl thing.
Whether or not he did it is moot. I was responding to the posts describing the poor ignorant boy who somehow doesn’t have the mental capacity to know that it’s wrong to throw down a baby, according to you people. And yet, as I mentioned, a 12 year old girl somehow is considered capable enough to have and care for an infant she’s forced into having.
Is there anyone here that actually said they agree with this? And even if there is it does not negate the fact that 12 year old boys are held to higher standards than grown women when it comes to crime. Feminists want men to own up to their privilege. How about they start doing some of the same?
May 7th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Danny,
I wasn’t talking about a teacher getting pregnant by her male student and him paying child support. That is totally stupid the couple times it happened. Outrageous cases are good to get people riled up with, but that doesn’t happen a whole heck of a lot. Not that it makes it ok. And anyway, was it the teachers who went after child support or the state? There’s a difference.
And I don’t say that women are the bigger victims so men have no issues. Just not as many as you think
And don’t get me started on anti-choice people.
May 8th, 2009 at 12:03 am
And Danny, 12 year old boys are hardly held to higher standards than grown women. You can’t extrapolate from a few cases while ignoring all the other ones. I’m sure nothing much (if anything at all) will happen to the boy. Prosecutors like looking like tough guys and publicizing their tough-on-crime stances. But it will get watered down or dismissed.