The 10-year-old boy is currently being tried as an adult for first-degree reckless homicide in the shooting death of his mother. Wisconsin law allows children as young as 10 years old to be charged as adults for certain violent crimes.
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“I have never seen a defendant who has committed so many different types of crimes in such a relatively short period,” district Judge Gregory Presnell said of Joel Greenberg, who has pleaded guilty to sex trafficking and other offenses.
Former Kansas City, Kansas detective Roger Golubski and his co-defendants have been charged in a sex trafficking scheme where the operation held women captive and sexual abused them for a period of almost three years in the 1990s.
Virginia Giuffre previously alleged that Epstein sexually abused her as a minor and prostituted her to Dershowitz and other associates, which Dershowitz denied.
A year-long study of young people living in at-risk neighborhoods in New York City found that fears for personal safety, and fears of police, were the primary motivations for carrying a firearm.
An investigation by the New York Times uncovered a history of repeated abuses and a tragic surge in suicide among youth held at the Ware Youth Center in Louisiana.
With little guidance from the courts and little supervision from the states, schools often determine their own guidelines for discipline, giving them immense power and offering students scant due process, according to a recently posted paper.
The federal government will accelerate a shift in focus from punishment to community-based programs aimed at helping young people “make good choices for the future,” Liz Ryan, the new administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, told a Webinar Wednesday.
A program called “You Gotta Believe” offers young people who are aging out of the foster care system a way to remain safe from the dangers of the street. The strategy is called “moral adoption.”
A group of teenagers took control of a school building at an Ohio juvenile detention facility for 12 hours over the weekend in the midst of a staffing crisis and spate of violent incidents within the Ohio Department of Youth Services.