Enforcement of the revised Juvenile Law has increased the number of 16- to 19-year-old suspects in serious crimes whose cases are being sent from family courts to prosecutors, where they are handled more severely, according to Supreme Court sources.
According to a tally compiled by the top court, all teenage suspects in robberies resulting in death were sent back to prosecutors, while 67 percent of those in murder cases and cases involving bodily injury resulting in death were sent back between last April and February this year.
In the last 11 months, teenagers were suspects in nine murder cases, eight robberies resulting in death and 42 cases of bodily injury resulting in death.