The Slender Man Stabbings: Is Everything About the Suspects Based on Fiction?
Category: CRIME
Twelve-year-old girls are not adults.  They are children.  But, somehow, with a stroke of a pen, two pre-pubescent tweens -- who can't vote, drive, or serve in the military -- have been transformed into adults for purposes of criminal punishment. But those adults don't exist.  Anywhere. Except on paper in a courtroom.
By Jessica S. Henry, ContributorAssociate Professor of Justice Studies, 2015-03-19