[Amanda M]

It looks to me as if those children didn't know what they were getting themselves into. I mean, yeah, they had it, but not ALL nine year olds know what it is. I know I dodn't when I was in third grade. Maybe it was because I lived a sheltered life, but, in the two stories, the children seemed to be doing something they didn't understand:

For instance: The little boy lied about it, probably because he knew he was in trouble and the older teenager told the third grader that if he told on him, that the kid was going to get pounded. My little brother is that age. He comes home crying from getting such threats. The little boy obviously didn't know what he was doing was wrong, and I think the felony charges should be transferred to another person.

Also, the little girl said it was her mommy's. If it was, she probably thought that it was a natural thing, for a person to have those drugs. She might not have even known they were drugs.

People may have a difference of opinion, but even growing up in the neighborhoods that I did, these things never occured to me at that young an age. The justice system needs to work on their punishments, a nine year old shouldn't be tried as an adult. It's aboslutely insane!