"He had freedoms that no young man would be able to handle.” 

With freedom comes responsibility, homeboy. If his parents want to claim he's not responsible for his actions, and that were enshrined in as a legal principle, defacto, they should be charged, as adults, with said responsibility. Buck has to stop somewhere. But in America, it's individual moral agency that counts, and ignorance of the law is not an excuse. So he's responsible whether he likes it or not. Maybe his parents should have done a better job.

The real problem is that the judge was paid off. I can say that -- I'm not in Texas, where she could probably have me shot for sedition. :nat