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When the accused is only a child

Robin Topping

Robin Topping Robin Topping

Robin Topping is an editor on Newsday's Long Island Desk.

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The charge was murder but the face didn't seem to fit the

crime.

The 12-year-old girl who came before a Nassau Family Court judge this week,

accused of strangling her own mother to death, hardly appeared to be a

defendant charged with the most serious criminal offense on the books.

In the adult criminal justice system, the judge's initial concern would be

getting...

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