The boy is serving a 10-year sentence but the court ruled that his parents are also liable for his crime. A court statement read, "The parents could have prevented the crime with appropriate education but failed to show enough attention to their child and neglected their duty to raise their child so that he can properly adjust to society.
I don't feel that this was necessary, but I also do not know all of the details. If the boy had ADHD maybe the parents were too busy working to try and support some special medication and doctors bills, and schooling to be around him all the time. They also could have just been neglectful. There are just too many questions left to answer. Even so if you saying the boy is responsible enough to serve 10 years then his parents can't be that ($60,000) responsible as well. I feel like the court was trying to have it's cake and eat it too here, you can't just throw around blame at everyone involved. Next they should sue the porn producers and distributer. I wouldn't endorse it either but depending on the situation one could even blame the girl to an extent.
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I don't really see the connection of this post to our class. Or else if there is, could someone please explain. No offense.
Answer: There IS no relation of this post to what we study in our class. Not all posts have to be about the financial crisis or business. Professor Skospeles wants us reading the news. If you go back there are many posts that are not in direct releveance to our class.
No offense taken. Although if you had been following the blog more closely would have seen more blogs not about economics much earlier rather than in the final days of the class.
I think the idea of blamming the parents for neglegance is totally ridiculous; their son is almost an adult, and even with ADHD, he is still liable for his actions. People with ADHD arent unaware of what they are doing, nor are they unware of what is right and wrong.
Wow. This is unheard of. But I think I understand why parents take such a big responsiblity over their old kids in Korea by Korean standards. I think it is more like an Asian culture that parents treat their kids even after they are really old. In Korea, it is so natural that parents pay for their kids' collge tuition along with allowance as well.
Anyway, I think that is too little fine for what he has done.
i will have to agree with jessica. however rukawa1004 you make a good point. and i think a lot of it has to do with culture as well. are you from korea?
I totally agree with Jessica, at 18 pretty much everyone knows right from wrong. I don't think that the parents should have been fined. Sometimes parents do all they can and their kids still end up as delinquents.
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