katie roiphe

[Jim heartfield]

In message <3.0.6.32.19990618124154.007c4630 at pop.bc.sympatico.ca>,
dhorne at bc.sympatico.ca writes
>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.

OK, so where do you draw the line of criminal responsibility? 10, 9, 8,
7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2,?

-- 
Jim heartfield