4-year old children can be sued and held responsible in civil courts in the US now. This is crazy.
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Citing cases dating back as far as 1928, a judge has ruled that a young girl accused of running down an elderly woman while racing a bicycle with training wheels on a Manhattan sidewalk two years ago can be sued for negligence.
“A parent’s presence alone does not give a reasonable child carte blanche to engage in risky behavior such as running across a street,” the judge wrote. He added that any “reasonably prudent child,” who presumably has been told to look both ways before crossing a street, should know that dashing out without looking is dangerous, with or without a parent there. The crucial factor is whether the parent encourages the risky behavior; if so, the child should not be held accountable.
So a four-year old can sued for negligence? I thought minors lacked a developed sense of reasoning and that's why they're not treated the same way as adults when it at the least comes to criminal cases.
Suing a 4-year old for running into you with their bike on the sidewalk? What has this world come to? Let me guess, the 4-year old should have been riding their bike on the street?
Dear old lady, put in your hearing aids and be aware of your surroundings. If you can't realize there's a kid on a bike coming in your direction, how are you supposed to be aware if a car or truck is coming at you? I don't want to hate on old people in general, because my grandmother is one of these almost completely oblivious senior citizens. Half the time she doesn't wear her hearing aids when she goes out, she doesn't look before crossing the street and expects the world to cater to her because she's in her eighties.
I find that absolutely absurd; with the lack of 'intellectual' maturation, how would they know what they were doing? I swear, people are always in it for the money.
This is so absurd that it'll probably be changed later.
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Well, in Australia, children under ten can't be held legally responsible for their own actions and they can't be legally sued or charged criminally until they're eighteen. Unless it's a special case which means they can be criminally charged when they're seventeen. Children under ten do not have the mental capacity to understand the implications and/or consequences of their own actions.
Likewise, the elderly woman probably should have kept an eye out, but we can't blame her for not doing so. Any reasonable person wouldn't expect to be run over on the sidewalk.
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