It sounds like the initial news reports were out-of-state kidnapping, torture, and attempted murder ("left for dead"). By definition, that would be a more serious crime that would merit more punishment. You really don't see any different between what happened and the initial allegations?

In that case, she was put of the sex offender list because she told the police that her partner was a minor (same age as her).

I have spoken to children that I believe will re-offend at every stage of their lives, children who will always pose a threat to others.

No problem. It's a pretty common myth.

I'm so sorry that you've had to go through that. I wish your cousin the best. He is not alone: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2013/0…

Sex offenders do not have a high risk of recommitting; in fact, their risk is lower than other offenders according to peer-reviewed studies.

Leading experts in juvenile criminology say that you cannot make that determination, whether or not a juvenile will re-offend, at that young age. You may believe that they will re-offend, but you have no way of knowing that. No experts have been successful in predicting that. That's why placing someone on a sex…

Do you have any response to this human rights report, documenting that children's human rights are violated when they are placed on sex registries?: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2013/0…

It's not a myth. Here's a human rights report on the issue, feel free to pass it along to your law enforcement and legal friends: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2013/0…

There is a "registry" for social workers, judges, and police: a person's criminal record. That kind of felony doesn't just disappear, it's in your criminal record forever.

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It's not a myth. People also end up on the registry for mooning their friends in public .

A.V.'s race and his parent's inability to hire a lawyer? Just an educated guess.

I've read a case where two minors both ended up on the sex offender registry for having consensual sex with each other. I've read about young minor women who have gotten pregnant and end up on the sex offender registry because they had sex with a minor. The registry system sucks and for the author of this story to…

I'm leery of dismantling a system designed—however imperfectly—to protect past and future victims, when support for victims is scant enough as it is.

Minors who commit serious and violent crimes are products of their environment. It's not just that their brains don't work the way adult brains do. It's that they are typically abused themselves, physically and/or sexually, and they have no way of escaping that because the are minors. That doesn't diminish the…

I wouldn't call Kiran Bedi a human rights activist. She's a politician who previously was warden of Delhi's Tihar Jail and did very good work reforming the jail. Human rights activists generally don't support the death penalty. Here's an anti-death penalty statement from a prominent Delhi human rights lawyer: http://…

You do not know one thing about human rights or international law if you're advocating that the U.S. should unilaterally bomb Syria. NOTHING. All you must have read about human rights is in 1984, because you seem to think that WAR = PEACE and BOMBING = PROTECTING CHILDREN. Your exploitation of these dead children to…

But then she put the country into a state of Emergency and stayed in power without votes.

An oversimplification of the Syrian Civil War that assumes what the U.S. gov't is saying about chemical weapons is true (evidence of which the gov't has not released to the U.N., the U.S. Congress, or the U.S. people) is propaganda. This article is also a dehumanization of "The Other," who are held to different…