Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

The reason we don’t try crazy people for crimes is society has decided it’s not fair to punish people who lack the capacity to understand that what they were doing was wrong.

The reason we don’t try children for crimes is they lack the wisdom and maturity to control their behavior to follow the rules of civilized society.

These concepts work for simple crimes like stealing an apple off the vendor’s cart, or punching someone on the schoolyard, or shooting somebody while fooling around with Dad’s pistol.  They’re acts of impulse, of stupidity, but not malice.

Raping two girls while holding their boyfriends at gunpoint doesn’t fit those parameters, so the perp shouldn’t get the break.  He should be given a fair trial followed by a first-class hanging.

I think there’s a point where “juvenile” justice shouldn’t apply.

Some pathologies, a kid grows out of.  Not sure “Raping while holding witnesses at gunpoint” is really one of ’em.