An Escambia County inmate has been charged with raping two other inmates, including a 15-year-old boy serving time as an adult, authorities said.
How can a 15 year old boy be allowed in the same cell space as adults? The kid commits a crime and gets punished like an adult, what will the adults who put this kid into a this situation be charged with? Disgusting. More here.
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I must have missed this one the first time around. I had heard that prison rape was something that was mythically blown out of proportion but this story definitely works against the grain on that one.
The kid was a fifteen-year-old arsonist, as if he wasn't f'd up enough already at that age, now he's a rape victim.
What's the standard for trying these kids as adults? Is it just the severity of the crime? Do they consider other things?
What happens to him now? I think the chances of rehab have just been severely diminished. That's really tragic.
I think his story needs to be told for a few reasons. One, trying such a young kid as an adult really needs to be rexamined. Two, if you're still going to try and jail someone that age as an adult, I think you definitely need to keep them away from potential sexual predators - or "booty bandits" in prison lingo. Obviously, unless the 15-year-old is as big as Lebron was at that age, he's going to be easy prey. Three, if the thought of prison does somehow act as a deterrent (which studies indicate it generally does not) - this is a helluva story to relate to young gangsta-wannabes. The reality is there is no glamour in being a con (50 Cent, Tupac, Shug Knight and Shyne be damned) - and if you're put away young, terrible REAL shit can happen.
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