Sky News host Peta Credlin says as a society we’re becoming too “soft and muddle-headed” to make young people and parents take responsibility for their actions.
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“Frustrated by delays in lifting the age, Victoria – where else – is now threatening to go it alone in lifting the age of criminal responsibility to 14, even though in the year to September, the Herald-Sun has got statistics and they report, 226 children aged 11 to 13 … were charged with serious assault.
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