katie roiphe

[dhorne at bc.sympatico.ca]

At 08:28 AM 6/17/1999 +0100, you wrote:
>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

Yes

David H.
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