Utah children accused of crimes shouldn’t face court if they are younger than 13, lawmaker says

In some of Utah’s youth detention centers, children as young as 10 are being locked up.They are still small enough to fit on their mother’s lap during visitation. One boy, a detention center employee recalled, asked when he’d be able to go to recess.“They are just tiny little kids,” said Brett Peterson, the director of the state’s Juvenile Justice Services.But in Utah, there’s no minimum age for sending children to juvenile court. That means that 12-year