ELI 5 How it is legal if a person commits a crime like lets say theft at 16. Then the courts drag their feet so they turn 18 and charge them like an adult?

[patnou@lemmy.world]

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[slazer2au@lemmy.world]

Do they?

Surely if the person is 16 at the time of the offence and the offence is bad enough they will try them as an adult not wait until they are an adult.