"Monkey See, Monkey Do" Essay on prosecuting minors as adults.

"Monkey See, Monkey Do" On March 9, a twelve year old child, Lionel Tate, wrestled a six year old little girl and beat her to death. Lionel Tate was convinced as an adult and First-degree murder. Many people believe that convicting Lionel Tate as an adult is unfair because he still is a child and children will always be children. Others disagree; they say that trying children as adults for violent crimes is the best way …

…mistakes, a matter a fact everyone does. Many juveniles don't know what the consequences of committing a crime would be, because their still kids and kids don't think like that. Juveniles don't quite know what they really get themselves into compared to a 25 year-old man. I believe that juveniles should not be tried as adults because they are still children and they don't really know what they put themselves to do, and accept the consequence.