Jeanine Pirro demands ‘retribution’ against children

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro is struggling—one might say she can’t even get a jury to indict a ham sandwich. However, she has a plan, and that plan is to complain to Fox News about how the law supposedly limits her ability to prosecute children.

“The mentality in D.C. is that, you know, if you’re less than 18 years of age, unless you kill somebody or do something really serious, it goes to the family court, where the purpose is simply what is in the best interest of the child,” Pirro said incredulously. “There is no punishment. There’s no retribution. There is no deterrence. You can go to an ice cream social or yoga.” 

We’ll just gloss over her key contradiction that unless you do something really serious, you won’t meet Pirro’s perverse desire for “retribution.” She was not done.

“This nonsense that your prefrontal lobe is not fully developed and therefore you should be able to do armed carjackings,” Pirro continued, invoking a nightmare fantasy of child anarchists running amok. “I can’t even touch them. Last night, unrelated to a takeover, we had 16-year-olds involved in armed carjackings and robberies. I can’t handle those cases. They’re gonna go to an ice cream social.”

Pirro’s claims are not only monstrous, they are also misleading. In Washington, 16-year-olds can be and have been tried as adults for serious offenses like armed carjackings. 

Since taking office, Pirro has not stopped whining about her feelings-over-facts approach to justice. And while President Donald Trump continues to tout the myth that his federal invasion of D.C. ended a nonexistent crime wave, his D.C. attorney continues to pretend crime is running rampant.