Should violent teens be tried as adults

1. Should violent teens be tried as adults Hunter Carson

2. Are children really innocent?? Some people say that all children are innocent but I disagree What do you think????

3. There are some really bad kids in this world • “Joshua Phillips • March 17, 1984 • “There should be a sensitivity to the fact that a 14-year-old is not a little adult.” – Florida Governor Jeb Bush • What started as a regular room cleaning ended with the conviction of a 14-year-old boy named Joshua Phillips. His mother went to clean up his room one morning after Phillips left for school. Mrs. Phillips noticed a wet spot under her son’s bed and thought it was a leak from his waterbed. As she was investigating the bed to see if it needed to be drained, she found electrical tape holding the frame together. She thought her son had known the about leak but didn’t want to get into trouble. She removed enough tape to discover her son’s sock underneath, but she was surprised to feel something cold. The beam of her flashlight showed her the dead body of Maddie Clifton, an 8-year-old neighbor who had been missing for seven days.” • http://listverse.com/2011/05/14/top-10-young-killers/

4. Joshua Phillips

5. Bad kids cont…… • “Jon Venables and Robert Thompson • August 13, 1982, August 23, 1982 • James Bulger’s mother left her two-year-old son at the butcher shop’s door thinking that it would not take her long to return, since there was no queue in the store.  Little did she know that it would be her last time she would see her son alive. • Jon and Robert, who were at the same mall as the Bulgers, were participating in their usual activities: skipping class, browsing the stores, pocketing things when the salespeople turned their backs, and climbing chairs in the restaurants until they were chased out. The boys came up with an idea to have a little boy get lost outside so that he would get knocked over by a vehicle. It was reported that the boys had a similar previous attempt on a boy before James, which failed because the mother had become aware of her missing child and found him before they could take him outside. • During their two-mile walk, the 10-year-old boys had punched, kicked, picked up and dropped James on his head. Some of the acts were seen by passersby who ignored them, thinking that they were just two older brothers who didn’t know how to take care of their younger brother. Jon and Robert brought James onto the local railway, where they flung paint in his left eye, threw stones at him, beat him with bricks, and hit him with an iron bar. They also sexually assaulted him and laid his body on the railroad track, covering his bleeding head with bricks when they thought he was dead. It was reported that James died sometime before the train hit him.” • http://listverse.com/2011/05/14/top-10-young-killers/

6. Jon Venables & Robert Thompson

7. Do you think this looks like a sweet little girl?????

8. That sweet little girl • The little girl on the previous slide is Mary Bell • She killed a little boy by strangling him and carving her initials into his body

9. More bad kids • “At 13, Eric Smith was bullied because of his thick glasses, freckles, long red hair and one other quality: He had protruding, elongated ears. These were believed to be a side effect of medicine his mother had taken for her epilepsy when she was pregnant. Police charged Smith with the murder of a four-year-old boy named Derrick Robie. The younger child had been strangled, had large rocks dropped on his head, and had been sodomized with a small stick. When asked why he did it, Smith cannot give a definite answer. A psychiatrist diagnosed Smith with intermittent explosive disorder, a condition in which a person cannot control inner rage. Smith was convicted and went to prison. As of today, he’s been in prison for six years and has been denied parole five times.” • http://listverse.com/2011/05/14/top-10-young-killers/

10. Eric Smith

11. Tell me what you think. How do you feel about kids that commit crimes Do you think they should be tried as adults

12. Tell me what you think What could we do different to get these troubled and violent kids off the street

13. Parental control This I think could stop a lot of teen violence if parents would actually punish there children for things they do wrong

14. Gamers Violent video games sometimes make childeren think its ok to do bad stuff

15. Thank you The end