{"id":39653,"date":"2013-09-23T10:56:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T14:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=39653"},"modified":"2013-09-23T11:04:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T15:04:30","slug":"new-law-to-hold-parents-responsible-for-childrens-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/09\/new-law-to-hold-parents-responsible-for-childrens-crime","title":{"rendered":"New Law To Hold Parents Responsible For Children&#8217;s Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-39655\" title=\"youth-crime\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/youth-crime.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/youth-crime.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/youth-crime-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The government is considering introducing an Act that would make parents responsible for the actions of their minor children, National Security Minister Dr Bernard Nottage said at a press conference on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative, according to Dr Nottage, was one of several born from the Crime Listening Forum that was held in August.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Nottage said: \u201cWe are looking at introducing a Parental Responsibility Act, which makes parents responsible for the activities and acts of their minor children. And we have many minor children now, 13-year-olds, we have 15-year-olds who are being charged with murder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DNA Leader Branville McCartney said he agrees that parents should be held accountable for the acts of their children and even charged before the courts if found accountable.<\/p>\n<p>However, he said there are laws on the books currently that allow parents to be charged now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Act making parents responsible for the actions of their minor children may be introduced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[31,311,49,51],"class_list":["post-39653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-family","tag-law","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}