I'm personally a bit frustrated with the ever changing standards for adolescents. They are as responsible or naive as people want them to be for whatever their bias calls for. (not saying you btw, just in general).
He may have to take a long break.
What's your opinion of the National Sex Offender Registry?
People are on it for simply peeing in public. And teenage minors in a relationship sending nudes to each other due to a lack of "Romeo and Juliet" laws.
Not much is black & white.
Knew another guy who did a few years in prison for "just a bag of weed", again that was true in a technical sense, he was on parole for a strong arm robbery and had the bag in plain view when he got pulled over.
I'm not saying nobody is ever innocent, but everyone I talk to claims to be and it never holds up.
also probably because people who commit murders and do the time are not always in a permanent urge to do more of that, unlike.
Not to take away from the point you are making, but this is simply not a good example of an uncontroversial case of scarlet lettering.
What we are talking about here is a minor who admitted to using a chess engine in a meaningless online match 2 times. Like all the grandmasters don't play with chess engines just to see how they work.
12 is horrible if you have a track record of blatant cheating and only getting worse for years till they permanently banned you.