A 7-Year-Old Was Accused of Rape. Is Arresting Him the Answer?
“Science doesn’t support prosecution of second graders,” one lawyer said. Still, in New York, children as young as 7 can be charged with a crime.
Source: nytimes.com
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A New York 7-Year-Old Was Accused of Rape. Is Arresting Him the Answer?
A 7-Year-Old Was Accused of Rape. Is Arresting Him the Answer? “Science doesn’t support prosecution of second graders,” one lawyer said. Still, in New York, children as young as 7 can be charged with a crime. An arrest of a child shook tiny Brasher Falls, a hamlet near the Canadian border, and may have restarted a push in the Legislature to change New York’s law.Credit...Malik Rainey for The New York Times June 3, 2021Updated 9:43 a.m. ET At the forested edge of the Canadian border this spring, state police arrested a person from the hamlet of Brasher Falls, N.Y., population about 1,0...
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Small library running out of money, wrestles with future
A unique, small town library will run out of funds at the end of this year. What to do? They’re wrestling with that question now in the town of Brasher.
Source: wwnytv.com