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A six-year-old boy allegedly molested a six-year-old girl in a PCF childcare centre. The parents of the girl are livid. Rightfully so. They wanted the childcare centre to do something about it. That is understandable. The mother went on to social media to vent her anger.
The personnel of the childcare centre informed both the parents of the girl and the boy as soon as they knew about the case. But the mother of the boy apparently claimed that she had a headache and refused to go to the childcare centre. The mother of the boy also apparently told the principal of the childcare centre to “just beat the boy”.
The whole incident was terribly unfortunate. Not just for the girl. But for the boy too.
The boy is just six. Even though he was touching the girl very inappropriately, one has to wonder whether there was any sexual intent. He is just six. And even if there was sexual intent, it is highly unlikely for him to know before the act that what he did was inappropriate.
In Singapore, the minimum age of criminal responsibility is seven-years-old. It means that our society has deemed that children below the age of seven are too young to fully understand whether what they are doing is right or wrong and thus cannot be held to be responsible for any act that is criminal.
In many other developed nations, the minimum age of criminal responsibility is even higher. In UK, it is 10 years-old. And even that, there are psychologists and neurologists who think that 10 is still too young to deem a child to be able to fully understand that what he did was wrong.
So this six-year-old boy in this case probably don’t understand that what he did was wrong. And why it was wrong. Another important question we need to ask is how a six-year-old boy would get the idea to deliberately touch a six-year-old girl in such an inappropriate manner? Did he see someone at home doing something like this? Or he watched it on someone’s laptop? Or on the TV? Or worse. Maybe someone at home has been doing that to him. Whatever it is, it suggests that there is something seriously wrong going on in the home of the six-year-old boy.
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The personnel of the childcare centre informed both the parents of the girl and the boy as soon as they knew about the case. But the mother of the boy apparently claimed that she had a headache and refused to go to the childcare centre. The mother of the boy also apparently told the principal of the childcare centre to “just beat the boy”.
The whole incident was terribly unfortunate. Not just for the girl. But for the boy too.
The boy is just six. Even though he was touching the girl very inappropriately, one has to wonder whether there was any sexual intent. He is just six. And even if there was sexual intent, it is highly unlikely for him to know before the act that what he did was inappropriate.
In Singapore, the minimum age of criminal responsibility is seven-years-old. It means that our society has deemed that children below the age of seven are too young to fully understand whether what they are doing is right or wrong and thus cannot be held to be responsible for any act that is criminal.
In many other developed nations, the minimum age of criminal responsibility is even higher. In UK, it is 10 years-old. And even that, there are psychologists and neurologists who think that 10 is still too young to deem a child to be able to fully understand that what he did was wrong.
So this six-year-old boy in this case probably don’t understand that what he did was wrong. And why it was wrong. Another important question we need to ask is how a six-year-old boy would get the idea to deliberately touch a six-year-old girl in such an inappropriate manner? Did he see someone at home doing something like this? Or he watched it on someone’s laptop? Or on the TV? Or worse. Maybe someone at home has been doing that to him. Whatever it is, it suggests that there is something seriously wrong going on in the home of the six-year-old boy.
See more at Poor kid in the PCF alleged molest case
