About 30,000 children under the age of 10 years, 228 017 children aged 10 to 12 years — was arrested in the United States for five years.
This is evidenced by statistics collected by the FBI in the period from 2013 to 2017. Statistics published on the background of the recent arrest of two 6 year olds in Orlando (Florida), after which he was fired the officer who held one child in handcuffs.
In the United States in 34 States there is no minimum age for responsibility for offences in some States the age of 10 years, according to government figures, quoted by ABC News.
And, according to the Department of juvenile justice, in 24 States there is no minimum age for transferring juvenile cases to adult courts.
The number of arrests of juveniles 10 to 17 years has decreased since reaching a peak in the mid 1990-ies, but experts say that is still too much.
«This is ridiculous. This is not the way to deal with the problem, you need to find other ways to solve it, says Lisa Toro, head of Strategies for Youth (mA) is a non – profit organization that trains law enforcement on how to handle youth. — It also weakens the Association of children with the school.»
In Orlando, the grandmother of one of the arrested 6-year-old said that her granddaughter was handcuffed, then fingerprinted and charged with causing bodily harm after she threw a tantrum and kicked somebody in elementary school Lucious and Emma Nixon Academy.
