I totally agree with this juvenile practice of justice because I've seen how children do critical things out of childish acts, which sometimes look like mistakes too, but it's on a different level when an adult full of sense does that.
Some years ago, I saw a boy with his back down to his shoulders, with piteous scars from fire. When I asked, I was told that the boy entered with his back into a pot of hot oil. He was pushed by a boy of his age, though. I couldn't think enough of the kind of pain the boy experienced at the moment he fell into the hot oil. For him to survive and have those scars, he must have been to hell and returned.
Now, the boy who pushed him, what did they do to him? Absolutely nothing! That's because either the boy pushed him by mistake, or he was angry and did it out of anger. But even if he was angry, that can't be measured by the intention that he wanted to kill him, even though the experience nearly led to the victim's death. The boy was only shouted at and given some physical beating that made him cry for a few minutes, and that's all. The bigger concern was to save the dying boy.
If this kind of thing is done by an adult, it only means one thing, which is the intention to end the victim's life.
Juvenile justice is very okay and acceptable to me. It's just that it may lead to more crimes if the laws don't check things well to know if a child ignorantly did what they did or was advised by an older person. What do I mean?
Way back when, living in a rural area where life has not evolved as it is now. We weren't caged as children of these days are caged. We played and went on hunting adventures without our parents knowing; we would go swimming in rivers that we were forbidden to use due to one mystery or the other. In all these, whenever two families got to quarrel, it usually extended to us, the children and sometimes the inhumane parents would instruct their children to cause harm to other children because it wouldn't be taken seriously.
Let me tell you,
We heard and experienced many cases where a child died in the river, and it was traced that the other child, whose parents were having a moment of back and forth, pushed the child to the dangerous part of the river and the child got taken by "mami water"
When a child commits a crime, the law should check properly to make sure there are no other motives behind it. Yes, the law needs to be firm on this before passing the protocol of juvenile judgment.
Also, everyone, especially parents and guardians, should be alert to know what is happening to their children and the kind of people their children are moving with.
Thanks for reading.
