Children and Crime

[Mups]

I was reading what I thought was quite a shocking report on the number of crimes committed by children,  and I am not talking about teenagers even,  it was the figures for crimes committed by children under 10 yrs old.

An incredible 9,544 offences were recorded last year by kids aged NINE  or younger!
What's more,  these weren't just pinching a bar of chocolate from somewhere,  they were things as serious as Arson, Stalking, Attaching Police,  making Death threats, Drugs, racially motivated offences,  and wait for it . . .  even Rape!!
I wouldn't have even known what most of things were at 9 yrs old.

This report said under 10's cannot be prosecuted either,  because the Law says they are not criminally responsible for their behaviour at that age.

It made me wonder how we would feel if this was our own grandchildren found guilty of things like this?   I really do find it hard to imagine at just 9 yrs old.

[GrannyMac]

Mine are in their teens now, no criminal behaviour.  😉 One goes to a school where some of the pupils are less than desirable shall we say!  The others are fortunate where they live, good schools, and their 6th form college is outstanding.  The oldest is off to uni this year, the next one starts at the college.   

A teenager was murdered at a school here, quite recently.  But 9 year old criminals! 

[Michael Rolls]

scarcely seems credible - a nine year old committing rape? I wonder if it was one of those bearded 'children' of which we have heard?

[klondike]

Could very well be I suppose but I'm not sure at what age they start lying. I don't  think rape specifies exactly what is used to penetrate so it may not be the tiny pinky you are thinking about.

[Scrumpy]

I'm not sure at what age they start lying. 

What age do they start lying..!!!!

Martha was an (expert) at 3.... She (picked up) some Tic- Tacs that were on display at the Co-op.. 
She was shopping with her Mummy and sister.. She wasn't caught.. so she did it again..
 My daughter found empty boxes of Tic-Tac in her bedroom..
She said she didn't know how they got there and who they belonged to.. She said it might be Hattie, her sister, who was a year younger...

[Mups]

scarcely seems credible - a nine year old committing rape? I wonder if it was one of those bearded 'children' of which we have heard?

Good point.  

[JBR]

I was reading what I thought was quite a shocking report on the number of crimes committed by children,  and I am not talking about teenagers even,  it was the figures for crimes committed by children under 10 yrs old.

I wish I'd known about that when I was under 10.  I'd have had a field day.

[klondike]

I'm not sure at what age they start lying.

I should clarify. I meant at what age do the intrepid dinghy boys start knocking years off their true age so they can claim to be children To pass off as 9 even with the obviously lax attention paid they would surely still need to be children. Or maybe those ages just get written in with no scrutiny at all. 

[JBR]

I should clarify. I meant at what age do the intrepid dinghy boys start knocking years off their true age so they can claim to be children To pass off as 9 even with the obviously lax attention paid they would surely still need to be children. Or maybe those ages just get written in with no scrutiny at all.

I'm sure we've been hearing about seven-year old boys coming here on dinghies, sporting beards.

[Mups]

scarcely seems credible - a nine year old committing rape? I wonder if it was one of those bearded 'children' of which we have heard?

I must be way out of touch,  because I wouldn't have even thought a 9-yr old was capable of rape.
Unless I suppose some of his mates goaded him on and held a girl down for him?

They certainly know a lot more than we did at that age.

[JBR]

I must be way out of touch,  because I wouldn't have even thought a 9-yr old was capable of rape.
Unless I suppose some of his mates goaded him on and held a girl down for him?

They certainly know a lot more than we did at that age.

Perhaps you should think beyond our civilisation and our children.  Some of those 'children' from the third-world seem to have capabilities way beyond even our most evil children.  
Some even have beards at 'such a young age'.  God knows what else they have hidden away!

[Mups]

Perhaps you should think beyond our civilisation and our children.  Some of those 'children' from the third-world seem to have capabilities way beyond even our most evil children. 
Some even have beards at 'such a young age'.  God knows what else they have hidden away!

It was also said in today's paper that over a quarter of sex attacks on women in the UK, are now carried out by foreign nationals.

[Scrumpy]

It was also said in today's paper that over a quarter of sex attacks on women in the UK, are now carried out by foreign nationals.

Just another bit of throwaway news.. It falls upon deaf ears where our government(s) are concerned..
Then all of a sudden they act as if they have found the Holy Grail by telling us what we already know.. and what they HOPE to do about it.. But , of course, it's far too late..
And, yet again, Starmer becomes an 'Also ran'.

[JBR]

Just another bit of throwaway news.. It falls upon deaf ears where our government(s) are concerned..
Then all of a sudden they act as if they have found the Holy Grail by telling us what we already know.. and what they HOPE to do about it.. But , of course, it's far too late..
And, yet again, Starmer becomes an 'Also ran'.

Yes, I'm afraid that it might be far too late to do anything now about the mass invasion of our country, certainly now that TwoTier is in charge for another four years.
My hope is, of course, with Reform but it is worrying that they will be unable to undo the ongoing and increasing damage to this country.
Historians will look back at how this country was once the greatest, most powerful nation in the world, and wonder how we could have sunk to the status of a sad, third-world country - all of our own doing.

[Mups]

Yes, I'm afraid that it might be far too late to do anything now about the mass invasion of our country, certainly now that TwoTier is in charge for another four years.
My hope is, of course, with Reform but it is worrying that they will be unable to undo the ongoing and increasing damage to this country.
Historians will look back at how this country was once the greatest, most powerful nation in the world, and wonder how we could have sunk to the status of a sad, third-world country - all of our own doing.

So true, JBR.

I always think if any Prime Minister's own family were affected by the things 'ordinary people'  are affected by,  they might do something about it.   But as always,  whatever brainwaves they come up with
never have any affect on their own personal lives.   So what do they care about the price of food, petrol, rent, and boat loads being moved to their neighbourhood!

For the six months before applying for the top job,  they should ALL have to live rough,  try and get any medical help,  need financial help, no more chauffeur driven cars and expense sheets,  have a hundred boat people housed next door to them  etc,   so they have some actual experience of what life is life for the majority of people they make these laws for.

When we used to go for jobs,  the employer-to-be would often ask what experience we had,  or we had to put it all down on the job applications.   

Do the top-knobs have to do CV's?