Teenager pleads guilty to East End burglary

| 14/09/2012

(CNS): A seventeen year old boy who cannot be named as he was just sixteen when he was arrested for the offence, admitted breaking into a house in East End in July and stealing a number of electrical items. The young offender also pleaded guilty to attempted burglar in connection with an incident in Bodden Town on the same day when he had tried to break into a home in Tennyson Street.  The court heard that the teen had taken passports,  2 i-pods, an i-phone and an i-pad, as well as jewellery and cash from a house on the Queens Highway after breaking into the property using a knife.

The judge remanded the teenager in custody until his sentencing hearing which was scheduled for2 November in order to allow time for a social enquiry report to be produced in order to guide sentencing for the young offender.

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  1. Anonymous says:

    What the hell is wrong with kids today, these punks spend too much time playing on computers, ipods (or whatever they are), ps3's etc, they believe what's happening in the games is reality and its fine to go out and terrorise people.

    Get these reprobates off their backsides, get them kicking a football or rugby ball around and get them socializing and interacting with other human beings.  Get to school and get a job, don't turn into a bum!

    Cheers

    • Anonymous says:

      Very very little to do with technology and nearly everything to do with (1) parenting (ie lack of) which is and has been staggeringly lacking in far too many homes over the last 30 years and (2) a culture of hostile denial among certain of our "brilliant" education officers (now, thank God, retired) who realised that to admit there was a problem meant they had to try to rectify it and of course they were poorly (or non existently) trained and ill equipped to do so  and belonged to the "beat them" school of pedagogy Once the beating approach failed, they had to find someone to blame -Shazzam! -foreign teachers. Ask the teachers (expat and local) who see these things happening in the schools long before they reach the streets. They are totally non surprised with what they see in the "courts news" part of the media.