OPINION ESSAY- IS LAW FAIR FOR UNDER-FOURTEEN IN SPAIN?

Today we have heard about a new, a teacher have been murdered by a student. This boy, who is 13 years old, isn’t going to be judged by the society because he is too young.

In my opinion, this boy should be judged, even if he is too young, because he had murdered a person and injured some others. High schools don’t need to have more security, because people normally didn’t act like this, but exceptions make the difference.

Nowadays high schools don’t have much security because here, in Spain, guns are illegal, and people don’t expect a boy to enter and start hurting people like this boy did. But, even though this boy is under-eighteen, he would have to be punished or sent to an under-eighteen centre. It isn’t fair to let a boy kill somebody and then let him live like nothing has happened.

I do believe that this boy has to live in very bad and/or violent conditions, or probably he has a depression or something, because the social and family background affects in everybody’s behaviour. As far as I am concerned, law would have to change some aspects referred to under-eighteen people. To sum up, I think this boy would have to be punished and judged by society and their parents would have to be submitted to a mental test.