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| A look at what happens when a child breaks the law in Manatee |
| By .bradenton.com - Pam Hindman |
| Published: 10/11/2012 |
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Q: When children are picked up by law enforcement for law violations, what happens to them, particularly if they are in the dependency system? A: When children (anyone younger than 18) are charged with a law violation -- which can be anything from murder to retail theft -- they are delivered by law enforcement to a delinquency screening site, commonly called a Juvenile Assessment Center. At this center, youth are screened to see if they meet statutory criteria for mandatory placement in secure detention. Youth charged with minor violations such as misdemeanors would not usually meet criteria for being placed in secure detention. These youth would be released to a parent or guardian. In Manatee County, 1,058 children have been screened at the facility since January. According to administration at the facility, they see 120 to 150 children a month, which is a decrease from recent years. About 80 percent of these children are male, but the number of girls is on the rise. Most of the children are teens, but there is the occasional younger child. Since January they have seen one child younger than 8, two 10-year-olds and eight 11-year-olds. Read More. |
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When post pubescent young adults under 18 (minors) are prosecuted it is because the State is now surrogate father under Parens Patriae. More laws and ordinances create more incarceration and thus the "criminal element." The responsibility of what was once the male parent is now in the hand of the collective (the village). Dad is absent under law today. The village is not as safe or free as it was 50 years ago nor is Baltimore or Chicago. Since 1920 "teens" have become a third venue of profit for what is now known as “teen culture” as well as the unions of Chicago where adolescence was basically invented to marginalize entrepreneurs. Everything has a cost. Sixteen trillion dollars of debt is not so bad. A male would generally be a fool to marry today because of the double standards of law and no fault divorce. The children in the next generation will have much more debt and they will be angrier than they are now. Wait until they wake up to see the pyramid of Keynesian economic manipulation being perpetrated today and what they will have to do to make sure the debt is paid in full to the lender in the next generation. The new adolescent is twenty six. Talk about storm and stress.