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Eleven-year-old Jordan Brown is accused of killing his father's pregnant fiancé with a hunting rifle. Does that means he belongs in an adult prison with rapists, murderers, and hardened criminals?<br>
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The funeral was held Tuesday, and the facts of the case are still unfolding, but police believe that before getting on the school bus last Friday, an 11-year-old named Jordan Anthony Brown shot his father's pregnant fiancé, Kenzie Marie Houk, with a hunting rifle he'd gotten for Christmas.<br>
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Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, has charged Jordan with two counts of first-degree murder in the February 20 shooting, and placed the fifth grader behind bars. Jordan's new home is the Lawrence County jail's 8-by-10 suicide-watch cell. Why is a "super-juvenile" being held in something less like juvie and more like a "super-max"?<br>
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"That's when I realized: Oh my goodness, I’m 15 years old," said Joshua Phillips, serving a life sentence at a facility for adults.<br>
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In Pennsylvania, like in most states, a child over the age of ten can be charged and tried as an adult.<br>
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<i>source: Article 'Does an 11-Year-Old Deserve Life in Prison?' by Anita L. Allen (Henry R. Silverman professor of law and professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania); www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2009/02/26/caring-for-kids-who-kill.html; The Daily Beast; 26 February 2009</i>

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