Children are lovely beings that lighten up the world with hope, excitement, and warmth. They are angels having shining eyes, joyful spirit, and innocent hearts. They own these real and precious smiles that are able to enrich the whole world and heal millions of pains. It's not the physical appearance that attracts us in little kids, neither is it their intelligence that makes us love them and feel connected to them, it's their pure, transparent, open, and innocent mind and way of thinking which has the ability to make them believe in everything they hear from others and free to do everything they see and like. But what if a child commits a crime? What if he kills, rapes, or steals? Will this action transform him into a criminal that will be judged in courts just as adults? How can the kid who was yesterday playing with his friends and waiting for Santa to come and give him his gifts suddenly turn to be an adult imprisoned for a life time? How can he live in an isolated place with shackles that are big and designed for older people around his arms and legs? How can such an action make judges surpass a line that is defined by age? This is unjustifiable, the war and battle isn't against them and the real purpose isn't to fight these children .Instead it's to keep them aware of such actions in their future and coming days. Children who commit crimes shouldn't be treated as adults in courts since their brains function in a way different from that of adults, prisons aren't a suitable place for them, and they are still growing and changing on daily basis.
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In fact, the reason why children shouldn't be treated as adults in courts is that children are considered to be mentally immature. Opposite to the case of adults, children aren't capable of making wise decisions or comprehending the weight of their actions and their consequences. For instance the 12- year-old Lionel Tate who mimicked wrestlers on a TV show and killed his 6-year-old play mate, sure wasn't able to realize that what he was doing was wrong and dangerous("OUR OPINIONS: In Court, Children Aren't Adults.