Seems he was a better burglar than driver. Once the identity is verified the DA’s office should be contacted to urge no plea bargain.

Jaguar_Gorgonne What do you suggest be done with this fine young man who burglarized several homes and stole a car? Send him home to his mother who should have seen that he was in school, not in our houses?

Is it by chance the silver Honda that is semi-crashed into the sidewalk on Westminster between Slocum and Cortelyou?

Anonymous Craig says:
Did he crash the car on the corner of Argyle & Beverly Rd?

Now that’s funny!!

Littledebbie – I don’t think they mix juvenile and adult criminals together in prison. He’s much better off though, returning to the community spending time and influencing your children. He, of course needs to take driver ed when he reaches 17.

Some of you people are absolutely disgusting. This is a juvenile case. Nobody is excusing the crime but he’s a kid for goodness sake and we all know that any of our kids could make a mistake like this and it doesn’t mean they can’t become good, decent adults. Or was everybody here an angel when they were 15 and only became assholes when they became adults?

Am I actually going to side with jaguar-gorgonne? Seems hard to believe, considering how he’s slammed me on other posts.

But, I think the vitriol evidenced by some posters is over the top. Somewhere between bloodlust and naivete lies justice. Let’s hope there is some in this case for all parties involved.

that poor “child” will likely be a murderer before he’s 20. unfortunately, i deal with these folks every day. 50 year old guys on their second murder convictions, the first one usually coming when they were 18-20.

no, i don’t know if that’s the case, but some of these recent break-ins have been when people were home and last year (or maybe 2008) someone was tied up when their home was robbed. i’m not talking about this kid in particular, i’m just generally enraged about the thought of a home break in. stealing my bike, my car stereo, my tires, i can live with more or less, but don’t break into my house because my wife or kids might be home….
is it bloodlust when a lower income resident of east flatbush gets her home broken into and manages to whack the burglar over the head with a crowbar? no, she’s a hero, so why shouldn’t middle class and UMC folks be allowed to protect their homes too?

The problem here seems to be that a lot of people are passing judgment without facts. Good thing they aren’t judges. Alot of tough talk here but if your child did something like this, you might sing a different song. Try to get him (or her) help. Try to avoid the system. Then if they reoffend, well, maybe that would be a different story. Am I wrong? And, yes, 15 is still a kid. What is that 9th, 10th grade? Come on, get real.

I second that “15 is still a kid”.

So much for rehabilitation for youth offenders. Might as well just lock him up now and throw away the key since apparently you guys know all about him and can predict with amazing accuracy that he is destined to be a career criminal and even a murderer.

Guess you can’t tag a post as snark. Whoops. Above is snark/social satire.

If he stole my car, I would be annoyed, and hopefully covered by insurance. What else can I do? Kids steal cars sometimes. I believe it is called joy riding. Would I want him to have no chance in life because of it? No. Kids are kids and they do bad stuff sometimes. That doesn’t make them the same as adult criminals. This isn’t complicted and fortunately, while, most of you apparently have no compassion, the law does. Sure, if he breaks into your house, beat him with a bat or maybe even shoot him if it makes you feel better which apparently it would. Can we all just cut to the chase here? I’m calling you all out: you think the kid is black and see him as a predator. If it were white kid from a wealthy family, you’d want to get him rehabilitation. Tell me I’m wrong.

You’re wrong Jaguar. You bringing racism into the discussion is certainly expected. The kid’s color is irrelevant – what stands out is your apparent “blah” attitude when a 15 year old breaks into a house and then steals a car. Let me put it this way – you talk about the parents “getting this kid some help” but what are the chances this kid’s parents are failures. Pretty good chance. And that’s not racism, that’s a society void of values

thanks goodness for jaguar_gorgonne’s perspective on this one. the haste with which folks want to exile young people into “detention centers” and prison is so beyond depressing. it reflects a real lack of understanding about the inefficacy of this kind of punishment for young people, (as in being in those institutions does little but further promote delinquent behavior and also mars a kid’s record so he has trouble succeeding when he gets out). it just strikes me as heartless to be so willing to throw away people’s futures. yes, the kid fucked up, as do many others. and unfortunately our criminal justice system has very few productive ways of dealing with that (though NYC is actually getting a little better with alternative to incarceration programs). but mindsets like the ones expressed here also ensure that the system won’t change.

Our country is going the way of black and white perspectives, good and evil, rich and poor. Get with the times! Why bother taking the time to work on rehabilitation? Enlightenment is losing. Thats just big government lib agenda anyway. Humanism is so 1992.

This might seem unrelated, but bear with me. A few weeks ago my wife and I were in Target. We heard a woman yelling. Everyone turned to see this (white…I only bring it up so no one accuses me of racism) woman screaming at her (maybe) 3 or 4 year old child. She was threatening to call the cops on him unless he behaved. She was telling him, “You know what, we all want something! I want a husband who loves me and a good life. Instead I got you, and I hate being with you.” The more she yelled, the more her poor little boy cried. At one point, standing in line, she growled, “I hate you, I hate you so much. Just shut up. I hate your mouth.”

What could we do? She didn’t hit him (maybe she does at home), but she was saying things to this child that went beyond anger into the realm of abuse. Could we intervene? Call DCS? It was horrifying, and I felt utterly helpless.

And I know, with almost virtual certainty, that unless someone steps into his life, this young boy is not going to have a very good life, and he might make the lives around him pretty miserable, too, as he gets older. There he sat, and otherwise cherubic little boy, with tears streaming down his face, reaching out to his “mommy,” begging for her to embrace him.

Should this abuse excuse his future behavior? Does it give him a pass? No. But I would hate to live in a society that doesn’t consider all the circumstances of an individual’s life before writing them off as trash.

That said, I don’t know what I would do if I found a burglar in my home. I know for sure I would defend my family first and foremost.