Despite children in general may not have a a mature brain to make logical / common decisions, but there are some really rare cases if things are not dealt with immediately, it could get worse.

I am not condoning children be trialed as adults and be jailed as adults, but I hope when there's jail time, there also have a psychological assessment on these offenders to see if there are some "odd sparks" of psychiatric misbehavior inside.

I speak of this because I found out someone I knew decades ago, had the tendency to hurt animals as young as 8 and threw a puppy into boiling hot oil (while someone is deep frying pastry) recently beat his own mother to death, and apparently was not remorseful and now no where found.

During his deep fried puppy "experiment" was in the 80s, and where I came from some of the people who live in rural and isolation were still less educated and live quite savagely, and there's no psychiatric profession to assist this.

I hope in this era, Australia will be much better dealing with young offenders with both science, medical and spiritual side.

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