Reply #103: last time i checked- 5 year olds aren't 12...neither are 16 year olds-

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but hey, that might be different where you come from.

tha article is about a 12 year old in an art gallery- not a 16 year old rapist, or a 15 year old mugger.
the truth is you nor anyone else here knows anything more factual about this incident than what's in the article- we don't know what his home life is like, we don't know his socio-economic background, we don't know if it was a class of learning-disabled students, or a class of honor-rollees.
what we do know is that hte kid is 12. and he stuck gum to a painting.
everything else is assumptions.
he's 12. kids do stupid things without considering the consequences...that's why they're generally not held criminally responsible for non-violent acts- as it should be.