15year old son charged with robbery

mrcow

Gingham_Ribbon wrote: »

How am I implying any such thing? He did nothing and needs to take the consequences of that. That doesn't mean that he necessarily deserves the names you threw at him nor that his mother, who has come here for help, needs to be spoken to like that.

We're going round in circles here......

barriejohn69

I hope it happens to him and his gang and they have to keep looking over their shoulders for a while. That's the punishment that I'd dish out. Also I bet the other mothers feel the same that their "little angels" weren't involved and just watched it happen.

kendalls_cave

Well I am glad he has been charged - it *might* stop him getting into further trouble if the shock of it has affected him. what is he going to do next if he can't walk away? rob an old lady of her weekly pension :mad:

The poor kid - it was only 5p but the terror he must have felt must be awful Why do bullies think they can get away with it? I was bullied/terrorized all the way through secondary school and even know 25 years on I can't walk past a group of teenagers

C_Mababejive

Havent read it all.

He is now part of the due legal process and the court will decide his culpability.

By the sounds of it,he may well escape any penalty as long as the real culprits take the rap and fess up.

Simply by being there,he is not obliged to assist the victim. There may have been factors which prevented or inhibited him from doing so. Indeed,he may not have considered intervening but the act of non intervention is not an indicator of guilt or joint enterprise.

Dont worry too much. It will be a good lesson for him and his associates..who he may wish to choose more carefully in future.

poet123

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Havent read it all.

He is now part of the due legal process and the court will decide his culpability.

By the sounds of it,he may well escape any penalty as long as the real culprits take the rap and fess up.

Simply by being there,he is not obliged to assist the victim. There may have been factors which prevented or inhibited him from doing so. Indeed,he may not have considered intervening but the act of non intervention is not an indicator of guilt or joint enterprise.

Dont worry too much. It will be a good lesson for him and his associates..who he may wish to choose more carefully in future.

I thanked your post for the first para, but the bit in bold is not strictly true. There have been cases where just being there was enough for a court to convict.

Oldernotwiser

Gingham_Ribbon wrote: »

I'd advocate walking away (and getting help) in any situation where the youngster is at risk of being attacked by older boys. Who wouldn't?

I would be ashamed if any teenager of mine put his (or her) welfare before that of someone weaker unless he could be sure that by doing so he could get immediate adult help.

poet123

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

I would be ashamed if any teenager of mine put his (or her) welfare before that of someone weaker unless he could be sure that by doing so he could get immediate adult help.

I would agree, but I would imagine that in most scenarios you can think of the other kids would turn on the one who was objecting and then both of them would be in trouble.

If they make a calculated decision to get help, then that would be acceptable to me, if they just left a weaker kid at the mercy of others without doing that, then of course I would be very ashamed.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Average 11-12 year old is 5 foot tall and about 7.5 stone. Average 15 year old is around 5'7" and around 10 stone. That boy was at such a height and weight disadvantage that he could quite reasonably be expected to fear for his life - look at the TV news and you will see the danger that kids see (and they will see more because they are at the receiving end of the day to day life in the bearpit).

He must have been scared for his life to tell his parents/the Police, as the potential consequences of doing this would have been very clear.

I'd be letting the full weight of the law drop on him from a great height and thanking my lucky stars that nobody in the mob had thought it was a good idea to carry a knife to show everyone how hard he was.

You could have been posting that your boy was on a charge of murder, like those arrested in London yesterday for involvement in the murder at Victoria Station.

Whatever he gets, in reality, it's a lucky escape as it could have been so much worse.

babymoo

My brother robbed someone at the age of 15. Nothing was done. I can't help but think that if it had and they had done something about it back then he wouldnt have spent 14 months in prison at the age of 20-21 for drug dealing and stealing to fund his habit.

You can blame the wrong crowd but he is more than old enough to know right from wrong. You are the mother and it is not your fault but perhaps you will monitor his friends from now on to ensure that someone else doesn't end up in the same position as this victim if not worse.

ChrisCobra

babymoo wrote: »

My brother robbed someone at the age of 15. Nothing was done. I can't help but think that if it had and they had done something about it back then he wouldnt have spent 14 months in prison at the age of 20-21 for drug dealing and stealing to fund his habit.

You can blame the wrong crowd but he is more than old enough to know right from wrong. You are the mother and it is not your fault but perhaps you will monitor his friends from now on to ensure that someone else doesn't end up in the same position as this victim if not worse.

Funny i thought it usually is at least the parents fault partially.