The Irish Council for Civil Liberties appeared before the Oireachtas Committee on Justice this week, calling for the age of criminal responsibility to be raised to 14.
In 2018, 14-year-old school girl Ana Kriegel was murdered in an abandoned home in Lucan, County Dublin. The following year, two children, known only as Boy A and Boy B, were convicted of her murder. One was also convicted of sexual assault \"involving serious violence\".
Currently, for most offences it is 12 and 10 if a child is charged with murder, manslaughter, rape or aggravated sexual assault.
Procedural Rights Fellow with ICCL & practising criminal defence barrister, Sean Egan, joined us on The Agenda this morning to talk to us some more about this.
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