CRIME IN QUEENSLAND

Sadly, more Queensland families have had their mental and emotional state of minds affected by our young youths breaking into their homes and stealing their cars.

Unfortunately, many of these young criminals come from broken families, not wanted, and loved. Our young children/youths should be living in a loved environment and tucked up in bed at night.

Instead, the sole parent/parents don’t care where their child/children are and allow them to roam around the streets creating misery for others.

Sadly, many of these parents are most likely unemployed and continue to have children who are mostly unloved and live off our welfare system.

In many instances the money is spent on alcohol/smokes, instead of providing good healthy food for their children, and do their parents care whether their children attend school.

The root of the problem stems from the parents at a very early age with their children feeling not loved or wanted, and as a result getting involved with the wrong people.

We have some beautiful young children and with the right love/care and support will turn out to be very respectful young adults.

Nearly all children now have the same opportunities through our state education system to learn and receive a good education so that they can get employment when leaving school or go onto Tafe, tech school or university. Sadly, our current state government has no idea on how to prevent youth crime in Queensland.

Recently, a 13-year-old decided to steal a vehicle and go on a joy ride, creating havoc and fear on our roads, with the result, as we know, him being responsible for the deaths of three beautiful people and seriously injuring another. He must be held accountable for his actions even at the age of 13 years. In my mind he has committed 1st degree murder, with his reckless actions, and should be given NO bail option, and handed down a non-parole sentence of 25 years imprisonment.

Also, his parents should be held accountable, as what responsible parent allows a 13-year-old to roam the streets, as they obviously have no control or supervision of their child. If they had, then these people would have still been alive today.

Also, the people that have had their vehicles stolen and mangled are in most instances not in a position to purchase another new or secondhand vehicle because they are still paying off their stolen vehicle.

In the middle of all this our police service with limited resources, stressed to the max, and having to deal daily with the break/enter private and commercial premises and stolen vehicles. We need to hand down harsher penalties, as the young criminals are just laughing at us. JOSEPH WALKER,

Gulliver