katie roiphe

Jim heartfield jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Thu Jun 17 00:28:19 PDT 1999


In message <3.0.3.32.19990616205443.00703234 at postoffice.worldnet.att.net
>, kelley <d-m-c at worldnet.att.net> writes
> it's quite clear to me
>that an 11 year old might be easily capable of rape.

Really? Would you say that an eleven year old was capable of murder?

(Real life case. The first time that the British courts suspended the Doli Incapax rule was when the eleven year old Mary Bell killed two infants she had been left in charge of. Through the legal fiction that she was capable of adult responsibility Bell was found guilty and jailed into her mid-twenties. Us liberals opposed the suspension of doli incapax in this instance. Were we wrong?)

-- Jim heartfield



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