Premier Chris Minns rules out raising age of criminal responsibility to 14 as he moves to criminalise teenagers ‘posting and boasting’ about offences on social media
premier has ruled out raising the age of criminal responsibility to 14 as he announced sweeping new laws that would make it harder for teenagers to get bail and would criminalise “posting and boasting” about offences on social media.
“If there was another option available to us today, to keep these children safe, we’d take it. But there isn’t,” he said. The changes would mean police, magistrates and judges would need a “high degree of confidence” that a young person would not commit a further serious indictable offence if they were granted bail again. The laws will then be reviewed after 12 months.
“No one enters public life in the hope that you’ll introduce legislation like this and that includes myself, but we can’t face a situation where we have a cycle of repeat offences,” he said. Minns pointed to statistics showing break-and-enter offences in the town were 840% higher than the state average and motor vehicle theft offences were 680% higher than the state average.
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