All the windows were closed, and all of the doors were locked. The sun went down on the school, and that is when the school was broken into by three of the youngsters that attended the school. The school was Murray Middle School. The students had a huge plan to trash the school. They brought in shaving cream, toilet paper, and one other thing. The other thing was far worse than the others. The three boys came into the school and immediately started to spray the shaving cream all over the lockers and inside of the classrooms that were unlocked. While in the rooms, the boys threw papers, books, and toilet paper everywhere, destroying hundreds possibly thousands of dollars worth of merchandise. They repeated this process through every room that was unlocked. They used all of the shaving cream and toilet paper, and then they proceeded to urinate in the main hallway. They were caught and brought before the principal of the school as well as a juvenile court litigation process. They were all expelled and were also given other things that they were not allowed to do when they returned to school. However, for all of the crimes that they committed: breaking and entering, vandalism, and conspiracy to commit a felony, justice was not served. The students were back in school the next year, and the penalties that were to carry over were not enforced, so in essence all these students were given was a year off of school. They were not required to do community service or go to any kind of self-help group. This is just one of many cases when the fact that the criminals were not yet eighteen years old got them out of serious, severe punishment. For this, I feel that the punishment for juvenile crime should be harsher in certain cases.
I think that the age of eighteen is too old. John Straub Jr., a twenty-two year college student from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, believes that the age is too high as well.
