{"id":2561,"date":"2005-08-02T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2018-02-12T09:33:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T15:33:54","slug":"childhood-not-yet-illegal-but-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/02\/childhood-not-yet-illegal-but-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Childhood: Not Yet Illegal, But Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In California, a child has hit another with a rock.  As it is in California, common sense does not figure into <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2005\/08\/02\/BAG2EE1BNU1.DTL\" target=\"_new\">what happens next<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Until the afternoon of April 29, 11-year-old Maribel Cuevas&#8217; only connection with law enforcement was involvement in a mentoring program sponsored by the Police Activities League.<\/p>\n<p>But that day a rock she says slipped from her hand struck Elijah Vang, 8, in the forehead. A 911 call led to Maribel being arrested by Fresno police officers, handcuffed and taken to Juvenile Hall, where she stayed for five days before a judge released her on the condition she wear an electronic ankle bracelet.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Maribel is scheduled to go on trial in Juvenile Court on felony assault charges. Authorities say the rock-throwing incident was too serious to be treated lightly. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fortunately, Californians don&#8217;t hang children for being children.  <i>Yet<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In California, a child has hit another with a rock. As it is in California, common sense does not figure into what happens next: Until the afternoon of April 29, 11-year-old Maribel Cuevas&#8217; only connection with law enforcement was involvement in a mentoring program sponsored by the Police Activities League. But that day a rock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19471,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions\/19471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}