FR. SHAY CULLEN, SSC
THERE are some haunting images from the past when children as young as 6 years old were incarcerated behind iron bars and mixed in with adults in prison cells where they ended up being abused by pedophiles. Hungry children jailed as criminals for begging in the streets. That’s what some Congress people want to bring back by lowering the minimum age of criminal liability from 15 years old to nine or 12 years old. It’s a return to the Penal Code of 1930.