A youth has gone to the high court and has won an appeal that says that people under 17 have to be treated as children by the police. This in the light of two 16 year old who committed suicide whilst in police custody and the police said that they were adult,s and as such their parents hadn't needed to be informed that they were in police custody. Now not just the law but society has to decide at what age a child becomes an adult. There are people who wanted the age for people to vote be reduced from 18 to 16. If this went ahead would this mean that children would now be able to vote at election times.
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