Slender Man Case Essay

Juveniles carry underdeveloped brains that can lead them to do wrong because of their poor judgment and immaturity. The rise in technology does not help with the development of the brain, for juveniles are open to a mass number of websites with information. The judges have to decide from whether the immaturity of the criminal is a factor, whether or not these juveniles meant to commit these crimes, have to take into account how heinous the crime committed was, and also the judge has to give these victims correct justice. The information on these websites is not always truthful, for it became one of the key pieces to “The Slender man Case”. The girls, in this case, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser spent most of their time reading about the Slender

One of aspect in juvenile cases is the maturity of the criminal, and whether or not they had the brain capacity to determine what they had done. This interpretation of youth capacity is not one of the key aspects because it is solely on the judge’s interpretation of adolescence because, “ states may allow the juvenile court judge or the prosecutor to make a decision to waive or transfer a case to the adult court” (Campaign for Youth Justice). This phycological judgment by the judge is very opinionated, which does not make it as strong. One key example of the immaturity was the Affluenza case with Ethan Couch, who had killed four people, injuring two, was given a lighter trial as he was, “suffering from "affluenza" has been ordered by a judge to attend an undisclosed rehabilitation facility” (The Guardian). Even though these court cases are allowed to be taken from juvenile to adult court by the judge it is not generally the case, for there are much more key factors that are put into play such as whether the crime was