lock the kid up

A 13-year-old takes lewd pictures of himself, puts them online, and gets charged with child pornography -- facing 60 days of juvie. A 13-year-old punches his 9-year-old brother in the stomach and is charged with domestic abuse. An 8-year-old was cuffed, arrested, and charged with misdemeanor battery and criminal mischief for getting into a neighborhood fight with a 10-year-old.

...something seems fucked up.

Whatever happened to handling kids as kids? Why is it that all of a sudden the law feels some need to get it's grubby hands on the sorts of things that, though by no means appropriate, are what boys sometimes do? It ridiculous...and sort of scary.