Two Suffolk students beaten up on the Common by teens, police say

The city has been trying to be by the book with everything to handle this (they've reached out to parents), but as far as I know the District Attorney -- Kevin Hayden -- isn't pushing to press charges. So even when the police show up to try to handle it, they end up having to let the kids go.

As far as I know, one of the kids doing a lot of the dirty work (and from many accounts, armed with a knife) is only 11, and legally there's almost nothing that can be done to kids under the age of 12 unless the DA pushes to make an exception.

Right now it's on the DA's plate to ensure no more bystanders -- or the kids -- get hurt.

They can't. 11 year olds legally cannot be charged with a crime.

Now, why there isn't a DCF ticket being opened post-haste, to investigate what kind of nightmare scenario is going on at home that's allowing this, and why the state isn't taking this child and locking them up somewhere in a therapeutic institution where the behavior can be at least controlled if not treated, that is a mystery. At the very least what we have here is a severe failure of parenting, and at most, something much more serious like untreated attachment disorder/bipolar/future personality disorder, and the child needs to be removed and put somewhere for his/her own safety and society's well being.

And another woman in Downtown Crossing (who, IIRC, had the temerity to wear her hair in braids, or at least that's one of the things they screamed at her about while they beat her up), and an elderly man in the Downtown Crossing Mickey D's. The BPD is apparently going to have more officers patrolling, but is anything else being done about what sounds like a middle-school girl gang? (I know there have been a few boys here and there, but the ringleader, along with most of the others, is a girl.) They're going to end up killing someone at the rate they're going.

I agree that laws involving juveniles need to reflect their relative lack of maturity and comprehension; kids may want to act "all grown up," but mentally and emotionally they're not. OTOH, it sounds as if this group is running amok causing property damage and hurting multiple people just because they can, or think they can. Kids, just like adults, will push rules as far as they can just to see what they can get away with, so who can legally put a stop to this before the inevitable tragedy*, and how?

(*Not that the assaults that they've already committed aren't tragic enough, but I'm thinking in terms of deaths, not injuries. Someone will end up dead, probably from hitting their head on the sidewalk after being punched, and then what?)

To answer one of the comments I know for a fact these kids r not locked up one of them attends my child's school and beats up students everyday. Principle saying that there are procedures and they can't just throw her out my response is why not her and her goons have literally had 5 more fights where they pummel kids and then record u ask ask where a parent is and there response is her mom is a substance abuser and sum feel bad for these kids but not I these kids r a menace and something needs to be done make an example out of atleast one and yes I'm for charging parents if can constantly pick ur child up from the police station u can attend a conversation at school. Why hasn't a 51a been filed for neglect they know wat there children are doing u can't handle then they need to be taken away period.