WTF??? a 14 year old **American** girl is deported to Bogata and is now in jail there??????

[Quartermass]

153. Actually this is a funny story. Well, except for her getting pregnant, but otherwise humorous.

And she wouldn't have been deported if she had been honest and presented them with the proper identification in the first place.

The cops were doing their jobs the best way they knew how, and they didn't have enough information on her, so they assumed she was an illegal immigrant, and deported her.

Which they wouldn't have if she'd have presented them with the proper identity. If she had been honest they probably would've either sent her home or held her and notified her parents.

I just love this "she's 14 so she can't think straight on anything and therefore must never be answerable for any action she does" junk attitude.

All because of that arbitrary magical number of 14. That's quite some generalizations there.

Come on people. 14 is old enough to learn things like how to be responsible for one's actions. If she was taught enough responsibility on her own recog, then this whole situation could've been avoided.

And this situation would never have happened in the first place if she hadn't run away from home.

And another thing, just because a teen runs away from, it doesn't always mean abuse. Some teens are over emotional and over react to a lot of things.

Example:

Parents: "No you can't get a tattoo."

Teen: "OH MY GOD! THAT"S ABUSE! I'M GONNA GO TELL CPS AND ALL OF MY FRIENDS ON YOU! STOP ABUSING ME! I'M GONNA RUN AWAY!"

And crap like that.

But somehow, some people must come to an extremely generalized attitude that because the teen is 14 they just can't be responsible, and so on and so forth.

No, we all mature at different rates. Some people are late bloomers, others mature faster than others.

But because they're 14 then obviously that must mean that everybody's all the same, so on and so forth.

Sigh. Some people love to generalize about other people. I'd love to see the day when that ends, but it never will. It's just much easier to go by labels and arbitrary numbers more than getting to know the individual.