VI.   Homo Sapien Life

Culpability of a Child is the degree of blame and liability by which a Child or others may be held to account in the alleged commission of any offense by a Child.

As a Child is legally incompetent, strict liability for any alleged offence must therefore fall upon the legal guardian(s) to some degree.

While the legal parents of a Child may not be able to afford to repay the liability owed from some offence committed by a Child, it must always remain an obligation that the legal parent and guardian pay some form of compensation as penalty when their Child and ward commits an offence.

Where a ward and Child of the State commits an offence, the State must accept full liability for compensation.

As a Child is mentally incompetent, yet normally has acquired a sense of reason of what is “right” and “wrong” by age seven through their legal parents and guardians, strict culpability for any alleged offence must therefore fall upon the legal guardian(s) to some degree.

Unless there is the legal excuse of documented history of serious mental illness of the Child and efforts by the guardian to help correct and modify any negative behaviour of the disruptive Child, the commission of any serious Criminal Offence by the Child must see the legal guardian charged with a comparable offence instead with all evidence of the actions of the Child becoming evidence against the primary guardian.