Juvenile Delinquency

Man sentenced to four years for crime 

By TJ HEMLINGER Staff writer An 18-year-old Columbia City man was sentenced to four years in jail with two years to serve and the balance suspended on a charge of child molesting, a Class C felony.
Source: www.thepostandmail.com

Bias seen in juvenile offender program 
New Jersey lawmakers heard Monday that a system intended to deal more cautiously with juvenile offenders appears to condemn minorities to detention, tagging them with damaging, lifelong criminal records, while allowing whites to walk away without them.
Source: www.app.com

Teenager arrested for lobbing grenade: Police 
Updated at 1530 hours IST Srinagar, Jan 21: Police on Sunday claimed to have arrested a teenager who threw a grenade at Shopian market in south Kashmir earlier this month. In the blast five people including three soldiers were killed and 20 people were injured.
Source: www.greaterkashmir.com

Teens arrested in videotaped beating 

NORTH BABYLON, N.Y. Three teen-age New York girls are accused of punching and kicking another girl and recording the beating so it could be shown online. more on this juvenile delinquency topic...

As he sat in jail last month facing more than a decade in prison for aggravated battery, Louis G. Galloway got a piece of favorable news: Suddenly, the key witness couldnt testify against him. The victim in the case had been shot and seriously injured in Ottawa the night of Dec. 19, just hours before the trial was set to begin. Galloways reaction He wrote a letter to Judge Robert Fairchild ... more on this juvenile delinquency topic...

The Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety, today announced a total of $356,550 in funding to support two crime prevention community-based projects, one for the community of Wendake and the other for First Nation communities in Quebec. more on this juvenile delinquency topic...

Drug companies increasingly are reaching legal settlements that delay the introduction of cheaper generic medicines and cheat Americans of billions of dollars in savings, regulators said Wednesday to lawmakers seeking to ban the agreements. The Federal Trade Commission and others allege the settlements allow brand-name pharmaceutical companies to pay off would-be generic competitors, which then ... more on this juvenile delinquency topic...