{"id":9079,"date":"2015-08-17T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=9079"},"modified":"2015-08-17T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T11:20:00","slug":"7-year-olds-can-be-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=9079","title":{"rendered":"7-year-olds can be charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>By Alexander Bruzual<br \/>\nMonday, August 17, 2015 &#8211; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/20150816\/news\/7-year-olds-can-be-charged\">trinidadexpress.com<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/dvb.jpg' alt='Violence' class='alignleft' \/>With two children, aged 11 and 13, currently before the courts on charges of manslaughter, several members of the public have taken to social media questioning at what age can a child be held criminally responsible for their actions, and if it was right that children be made to face such a serious charge.<\/p>\n<p>However, many people may be shocked to know that the age for criminal responsibility in Trinidad and Tobago is actually seven years.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSpeaking to the Express on Friday, defence attorney Fareed Ali confirmed that a child can be charged in this country as long as they have attained this age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe age of criminal responsibility is age seven. This means that so long as an individual has attained this age, they can be charged for an offence, including murder. Now there is a rule\u2014termed doli incapax\u2014which states that if you\u2019re even a day under seven then you can\u2019t be charged with a criminal offence as it means that legally you won\u2019t know the difference between right and wrong,\u201d said Ali.<br \/>\n<I><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/20150816\/news\/7-year-olds-can-be-charged\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexander Bruzual Monday, August 17, 2015 &#8211; trinidadexpress.com With two children, aged 11 and 13, currently before the courts on charges of manslaughter, several members of the public have taken to social media questioning at what age can a child be held criminally responsible for their actions, and if it was right that children &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=9079\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">7-year-olds can be charged<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,6,1,186,178,180,8],"tags":[85,44,610],"class_list":["post-9079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-court","category-crime","category-general-tt","category-law","category-media","category-police","category-violence","tag-abuse","tag-crime-in-tt","tag-express"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9080,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079\/revisions\/9080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}