VI.   Homo Sapien Life

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

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

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

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

As a Youth is not fully mentally competent, 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 the legal excuse of documented history of serious mental illness of the Youth and efforts by the guardian to help correct and modify any negative behaviour of the disruptive Youth, the commission of any serious Criminal Offence by the Youth must see the legal guardian charged and the Youth with a comparable but lesser offence instead with evidence of the actions of the Youth also becoming evidence against the primary Guardian.